Senior Data Engineer
Thought Industries
We're looking for a 100% remote Senior Data Engineer to help us build out reporting and analytics for our SaaS Learning Management Platform.
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer for our Data Engineering/BI team to use data and technology to transform and grow the way Thought Industry data teams work. You’ll work with existing Data Engineers and Product to expand capability and architecture of our system. The ideal candidates will have strong data infrastructure and data architecture skills, strong operational skills to drive efficiency and speed, strong project leadership, and contribute to the vision for how data engineering can proactively create a positive impact for our customers.
About Thought Industries
Thought Industries is a startup in the Online Learning space. We enable training and software companies to launch and monetize external learning programs — think Shopify meets Udemy/Coursera. .
Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Thought Industries is one of the world’s fastest-growing online learning companies in the U.S. We are helping consumer brands and for-profit learning organizations change how they build, deploy and grow online learning businesses. Today, hundreds of customers and brands are using the Thought Industries’ Learning Business Platform to transform the way they reach, teach, and engage audiences.
This is a full-time position and candidates should be based and authorized to work in the U.S or Canada. No Recruiters, please.
Responsibilities
- Define the processes needed to achieve operational excellence in all areas, including project management and system reliability.
- Evaluate existing tech stack, ETL and data modeling and advise on optimizations
- Collaborate in a cross-functional organization with Product Managers, Software Engineers, and Infrastructure to understand data needs and deliver on those needs.
- Drive the design, building, and launching of new data models and data pipelines in production.
- Manage development of data resources and support new product launches.
- Drive data quality across our product and related business areas.
- Manage the delivery of high impact dashboards and data visualizations.
- Define and manage SLA’s for all data sets and processes running in production.
Skills & Qualifications
- 3-5 years of experience in Data Engineering, BI, or Data Warehousing
- Capable of completing assigned projects with a high degree of autonomy
- Data architecture experience
- Hands-on experience with AWS services (S3, Redshift, RDS Postgres)
- ETL/ELT
- Data modeling/warehouse design
- Experience in SQL or similar languages and development experience in at least one scripting language (Python, Go, etc.)
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Math, Physics, or other technical fields
Bonus Qualifications
Experience with:
- Data visualization tools (e.g. Looker)
- Data governance and Data lineage
- RDS Postgres
The development team is completely distributed across the US, and has been since the inception of Thought Industries — we haven't bolted on remote processes due to COVID-19, we've always done it this way, so you'll feel right at home.
Benefits include:
- Flexible work hours
- Unlimited PTO
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Short term disability, long term disability, life insurance, employee assistance program
- Wellness and meditation
- Employee rewards program
- 401k
- And more!
We are a growing, well-funded technology company, with a talented team and a clear vision. This is a unique opportunity to take a lead role at an exciting SaaS software company with a robust cloud-based platform. We hire talented people who are self-motivated and team orientated. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status.
