Role overview

Senior Data Engineer (Brazil and Argentina Only)

Requirements and responsibilities

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During the First Month:

  • Learn about Niche by meeting with various team members to learn more about our company through our Onboarding meetings
  • Immerse yourself in the company culture, and get to know your team and key stakeholders
  • Build relationships with data engineering team members, understand the day to day operating model, and stakeholders that we interact with on a daily basis
  • Start to learn about our data platform infrastructure, data pipelines, source systems, and inter-dependencies
  • Start participating in standups, planning, and retrospective meetings

Within 3 Months:

  • Participate in periodic data engineering activities, e.g. monthly insights reporting, profile data updates, etc
  • Start delivering on assigned data engineering tasks to support our day to day, and roadmap
  • Start troubleshooting production issues, and participating in on-call activities
  • Identify several areas for improving data engineering processes, and share with the team

Within 6 Months:

  • Contribute consistently towards building our data platform, which includes data pipelines, and data warehouse layers
  • Independently own and lead workstreams whether it is periodic data engineering activities, or work items in support of our roadmap
  • Deepen your understanding, and build subject matter expertise of our data & ecosystem

Within 12 Months:

  • Your contributions have led to us making significant progress in implementing the data platform strategy, and key data initiatives to support the company's growth
  • You’ve established yourself as a key team member with subject matter expertise within data engineering

What We Are Looking For

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field
  • 6+ years of experience in data engineering
  • Demonstrated experience of building, and supporting large scale data pipelines - streaming and batch processing
  • Software engineering mindset, leading with the principles of source control, infrastructure as code, testing, modularity, automation, CI/CD, and observability
  • Proficiency in Python, SQL, Snowflake, Postgres, DBT, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka
  • Experience of working with Google Analytics, Marketing, Ad & Social media platform, CRM/Salesforce, and JSON data; Government datasets, and geo-spatial data will be a plus
  • Knowledge and understanding of the modern data platform, and its key components - ingestion, transformation, curation, quality, governance, and delivery
  • Knowledge of data modeling techniques (3NF, Dimensional, Vault)
  • Self-starter, analytical problem solver, highly attentive to detail, effective communicator, and obsessed with good documentation
  • Familiarity with Agile product management principles will be a plus

Interview Process

  • Phone Screen with Talent Acquisition Partner - 30 Minutes
  • Video Interview with Hiring Manager - 30 Minutes
  • Code Test - 1 Week
  • Team Interview - 45 Minutes
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