Sr Data Engineer 

Who We Are: 

Omaze raises funds and awareness for charities by offering the chance to win once-in-a-lifetime experiences and dream-come-true prizes. We've offered everything from a double date with John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, to a walk-on role in Star Wars, to a brand new customized Mercedes Benz sprinter van. We've given over $130M to charities around the world, from donors in 180 countries. Our vision is to be the first for-profit company to give $1B to charity in a single year, and we’re building our team of dedicated and passionate people to help us get there. That’s where you come in!

Who we are Seeking:

As a Data Engineer you own the delivery, storage, processing and reliable infrastructure of the Omaze data ecosystem. You will collaborate with key stakeholders, executives, engineers, and other members of the data team to help cement data processes and strategy across the organization. You will be vocal about having a single source of truth for all key data items in the organization and design systems that allow internal consumers of data across the company to intuitively access and use the information available. You will champion and be responsible for best practices and serve as an evangelist for the importance of well organized and hygienic data throughout the organization. Success will be measured by the efficiency of our data access and breadth of data usage across the company. 

What You’ll Do

• Lead and support mappings of data sources, transformations, and data movement
• Support data modeling and data warehouse analysis, architecture, design, and development, which includes but is not limited to, data collection/ingestion, redundant data storage, efficient processing and data manipulation, data modeling, data models/star schemas, and ETL/ELT processes
• Providing expertise on dimensional modeling and database design best practices
• Wrangle heterogeneous data and explore and discover new insights
• Implement procedures and processes to validate data to ensure that data integrity and quality standards are met
• Ensure all development, validation, data storage, and transformational processes follow internal SDLC and meet data compliance requirements such as CCPA, GDPR, and other certifications.
• Solving and quantitative skills, including the ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes and recommend solutions.
• You should be well-oriented in Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, DynamoDB.
• Provides mentorship to support team members

Skills and Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or related field handling both structured and unstructured data, with heavy emphasis on providing the delivery, storage, processing and reliable infrastructure of data
• Strong knowledge of the AWS data ecosystem (S3, EMR, Athena, Spark, etc.)
• Experience with or solid understanding of data pipelines and event-driven architectures (Kinesis, Kafka)
• Deep knowledge of, and experience with, traditional data warehousing models, practices, and processes
• Strong understanding of ELT/ETL Design Patterns, best practices, and tooling
• Wide knowledge of data visualization and analytics tools (Tableau, Qlik, etc.)
• 3+ years with distributed data warehousing systems such as Redshift or Snowflake, 
• Experience in data processing using Snowflake or DBT a plus
• Preferably, experience consuming and integrating third-party data sources such as Google Analytics, Google Adwords, social media feeds, etc.
• Ability to communicate verbally and in technical writing to all levels of the organization in a proactive, contextually appropriate manner.
• Strong interpersonal skills, team-orientation, and professional attitude.
• Proficiency in Python ; additional knowledge of other languages such as R or statistical software (SPSS, RapidMiner, etc.) helpful.

Professional Traits

• The desire and ability to learn quickly.
• You want to work on software that is changing the world and you're passionate and obsessed about creating intuitive, scalable products.
• Ability to work effectively in teams of technical and non-technical individuals (marketing, subject matter experts, etc).
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills.
• Self-starter with a high degree of initiative.
• Highly-responsive with a demonstrated sense of urgency.
• Team-oriented.
• Positive attitude.
• Leadership qualities in building teams to drive successful outcomes while developing their career paths and skillsets.
• You are committed to quality as a top priority — you pay attention to detail and take pride in it.
• You are excited to share and learn from your teammates about crafting amazing user experiences.
• You are passionate about voicing your opinions and are able to be humble in receiving feedback.
• You have a track record of trying and learning new things and are not afraid to learn through failures.

What’s Different About Us

• We are on Fast Company’s list of 50 most innovative companies, #1 in the category of social good.

• Big Impact - You will be a part of the Omaze team mission of people dedicated to making a difference by raising money for charities all over the world.

• Growth - We are in a growth phase and you will be influential in scaling our engineering organization and helping build the next great thing.
• Unique Culture - We live by our values. We have a mission unlike any other company and have the opportunity to be the best at what we do. We have already raised over $100 million for charities. 
• Glassdoor CEO rating is 100% and 83% “Recommend to a Friend”.
• We love having fun!