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Design and build a comprehensive data ecosystem, leading vendor selection and hands-on development while collaborating with leadership on data strategy.
BlackCloak’s mission is to protect corporate executives and high-profile individuals in their personal lives, mitigating risks to their families, companies, reputation, and finances. We defend our clients’ digital lives from hackers, privacy leaks, and identity theft. If you are passionate about helping to protect others, then keep reading - this may be your next great opportunity.
We're looking for our first Principal Data Engineer to design, build, and own our data ecosystem from the ground up. This is a unique opportunity to lay the foundation for our entire data strategy and directly influence how we use data to drive decisions across the company and build data-driven product capabilities. You'll be a hands-on developer and a strategic partner, collaborating with leadership and engineering teams to turn raw data into a valuable asset.
This role reports directly to the VP of Engineering.
What you will do
- Architect the Data Ecosystem: Design and build our complete data stack, including robust data pipelines, a centralized data warehouse, and a suite of data exploration tools.
- Lead Vendor Selection: Research, evaluate, and select key vendors and technologies for our data platform, making critical decisions that will impact our long-term strategy.
- Deploy and Own: Take end-to-end ownership of the deployment, maintenance, and ongoing operations of all key data ecosystem components.
- Hands-On Development: Be a player-coach, serving as the primary developer during the early phases of this project.
- Strategic Collaboration: Partner with the VP of Product Management, CISO, and VP of Engineering to define our data vision and roadmap.
- Identify and Unblock: Work closely with engineering feature teams to understand their data needs, identify blockers, and build solutions that enable them to succeed.
What you need to be successful
- Experience: We're targeting someone with 8-10+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering, with a proven track record of architecting and building scalable data platforms.
- Leadership and Influence: A vocal champion for the value of data who can build strong relationships of influence across the organization, particularly with our engineering teams, to ensure correct data patterns are identified and enforced.
- Deep Technical Expertise: Extensive experience in modern data warehousing, ETL/ELT pipelines, data modeling, data governance, security, analytics and reporting.
- Autonomy: The ability and confidence to operate as a "team of one" during the early stages of the company's data journey, with the vision to grow and mentor a team in the future.
About BlackCloak
BlackCloak is an extremely fast-growing company in an entirely new product category. We have amazing product fit validated by industry awards and an impressive client base of Fortune 500 companies across all industries.
BlackCloak offers a competitive salary, exceptional benefits, and a dynamic work environment. Below is a quick summary of BlackCloak’s generous benefits package for full-time employees includes:
- 100% Remote Company, within the USA
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with a 100% employer-paid monthly premium option for employees & 50% employer-paid monthly premiums for dependents.
- Health Savings Account with company contribution for eligible medical plans.
- Flexible Vacation Plan
- 10 Paid Company Holidays
- 100% employer-paid Life, AD&D and Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- 401k with Traditional and Roth options, including employer match.
- Company Equity
- Paid Parental and Pregnancy Recovery Leave
- Company and team off-sites and virtual events throughout the year
- Home office stipend
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military service status, citizenship, or other protected characteristic.
Learn More about Us
Website: https://blackcloak.io
LinkedIn: /blackcloak
Twitter: @BlackCloakCyber
White Paper: https://bc.blackcloak.io/quantifying-the-business-need-for-digital-executive-protection-report-download
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Top Skills
Analytics
Data Engineering
Data Governance
Data Modeling
Data Pipelines
Data Warehousing
Etl/Elt
Reporting
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