Senior Data Engineer

What You'll Do

• Drive data awareness and provide accurate and actionable data for analytics and decision-making.
• Collaborate with platform and product teams to ensure all relevant data is being collected.
• Help develop a data catalog and data definitions for clear usage and understanding.
• Align data needs to business objectives and formulate a data roadmap.
• Prepare data for predictive, prescriptive modeling with ML possibilities.
• Plan, build, and develop automated pipelines and processes for highly reliable ingestion, ETL, and gold-level data ResultSets.
• Plan, build, and develop real-time analytics through data pipelines.
• Develop data governance, security, and stewardship best practices.
• Lead, mentor, and develop other data engineers.
• Understand and support user events processing in the YouVersion Bible App to bring our data governance to the next level.
• Engage as an active contributor within our agile development process.
• Own projects and oversee them with minimal direction.
• Manage schedules and duties to efficiently meet the needs of the organization in the pursuit of leading others to become fully devoted followers of Christ.

Skills Needed to Succeed

• Ability to self-motivate, make independent decisions, and solve problems with innovation.
• Effective at multi-tasking and time management to meet strict deadlines while remaining flexible and open to change.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills to clearly explain complicated processes and foster partnerships.
• Strong presentation creation and facilitation skills.
• Effective at the process and organizational management to coordinate, structure, and provide vision to projects.
• Strong SQL knowledge, capable of writing complex SQL and performance tunes.
• Skilled in Python, Go, Java, scripting, or other general-purpose programming languages.
• Proficient with data orchestration tools such as Airflow, Luigi, Pub/Sub, streaming, etc.
• Proficient in Database Management Systems, such as Postgres, BigQuery, or MySQL.
• Experienced in API and streaming data integration.
• Experienced in data warehousing models and design fundamentals.
• Experienced with Google Cloud Platform or other cloud data solutions such as AWS or Azure.
• Understanding of user event data collection products like Firebase, GA4, or similar.
• Bachelor's Degree + Advanced Certification.
• 5+ years of related work experience preferred.

Benefits We Offer

• Paid parental leave, including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
• Generous employer-paid leave for the use of vacation, sick time, and other qualifying reasons.
• Innovative and comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance that provides team members with useful resources and savings to navigate their holistic health.
• Life insurance policy provided for all staff members at 2x annual salary at no cost. Additional life insurance coverage is available to purchase.
• Short-Term and Long-Term disability covered at 100% for full-time qualified staff members.
• Comprehensive wellness and mental health benefits allow staff to proactively invest in their physical and emotional health.
• Generous 401(k) retirement plan allowing a team member to have up to 12.5% (including employee contribution, employer match, and employer discretionary contribution) contributed into their account in their first year. It doesn’t stop there—the more years on staff, the greater the investment!
• $160 annually in development dollars for team members to invest in their professional growth.
• Casual dress and work environment.
• Flexible work schedule.
• And much more!