Director of Data Engineering
FabFitFun is seeking a Director of Data Engineering to lead the development of our real-time self-service data platform. You'll be a technical thought leader and a champion for our data-driven culture as well as manage and grow our data engineering team.
What We’re Like:
- A collaborative learning culture: we work as a team to figure out solutions to the technological challenges of the day
- We focus on improving our customers' experience every day while still taking the time necessary to make sure we do things the best we can
- We celebrate innovation and want every person at FFF to have the power to experiment and find novel, effective solutions
What You’ll Do:
- Develop and execute on a comprehensive roadmap that serves key business goals such as a self-service data platform to empower the business owners to make data-driven decisions
- Work with business stakeholders such as but not limited to BI, Finance, and Product to translate business requirements into technical requirements
- Work with the BI Analytics team to enrich and build data sets that enable data-driven decisions across the organization
- Work with DevOps and application engineers to ensure data integrity, governance, stability, accessibility, durability, and performance
- Recruit and lead a high-performing team of data engineers to execute on your technical strategy and vision
- Define development standards, procedures, and guidelines to improve the overall development process
- Mentor data engineers on data architecture and best practices
What You'll Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical discipline (advanced degree preferred)
- 10+ years of experience in data warehouses, data modeling, systems analysis, and design
- At least 5 years of experience in people management and technical leadership role
- Strong understanding of data warehouses such as Redshift, Snowflake, and Hadoop
- Mastery of ETL tools such as Alooma, Talend, Informatica, Data Stage, and Fivetran
- Proficient knowledge BI Analytics tools such as Looker, Tableau, Oracle, Pentaho, and SAP
- Mastery of Data Modeling techniques such as Dimensional Modeling, Data Marts, and Data Cubes
- Expert in data architecture, design patterns, data warehouses, modeling, and analysis
- Expert in SQL and Python (or Java or Scala)
- Experience building real-time data pipelines and streaming APIs using technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Samza, Flink, Storm, Heron, and Kinesis
- Collaborative leader and mentor
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Solid organizational and communication skills
Bonus Points:
- Relevant e-commerce and/or subscription experience
- Strong knowledge of data science
What you'll get:
- Opportunity to lead the development of real-time, self-service data platform
- Ability to build and expand growing data engineering team
- Amazing benefits including medical, dental, vision, FSA, and 401k
- Unlimited PTO
- Catered meals, kitchen stocked with great snacks and drinks
- Free FabFitFun subscription and and quarterly credit in the Add-Ons store