The Gig:
We are looking for a savvy Data Engineer to join our growing team of analytics experts. The hire will be responsible for expanding and optimizing our data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate is an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler, who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up.
The Data Engineer will support our software developers, database architects, data analysts, and data scientists on data initiatives and will ensure optimal data delivery architecture is consistent throughout ongoing projects. They must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems, and products. The right candidate will be excited about the prospect of optimizing or even re-designing our company's data architecture to support our net generation of products and data initiatives.
What You'll Be Up To:
- Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture,
- Assemble large, complete data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements. Identified, designed, and implemented internal process improvements: automating manual processes,
- optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, performance, etc.
- Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and big data technologies. Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, revenue management, operational efficiencies, and other key business performance metrics. Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data, and Design teams to assist with
- data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
- Keep our data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions.
- Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our offerings.
- Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.
- Other duties as assigned:
SuperPowers Required:
- Advanced degree in Computer Science (Ph.D., preferred), Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Informatics, Information systems, or another quantitative field
- 7+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role
- Experience working with relational databases and data warehouses, including Postgres, Microsoft
- SQL Server, Oracle, GCP BigQuery, etc.
- Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Hive, HBase, etc.
- Experience with NoSQL data repositories, ideally, Elastic Search.
- Experience building and optimizing big data pipelines, architectures, and data sets. Familiar with workflow management tools: NiFi, Airflow, etc.
- Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark, and/or Kafka Streaming, etc.
- Experience with programming and scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.
What Matters to Us:
At Virgin, your personality matters as much as how good you are at what you do. We want you to bring it to our hangout spot and help make the place even better. So, we won’t be surprised to hear that when people talk about you they say you are clever, on top of it, able to think ahead, intuitive, passionate and someone people respect and enjoy working with because you make things happen.
Virgin Voyages is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified, eligible applicants regardless of their sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy and maternity. Our greatest strength comes from our ability to come together as unique individuals -- we seek to always embrace and celebrate our differences, providing an inclusive workplace environment that allows you to be your best self.
Virgin Voyages is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Virgin Voyages via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from Virgin Voyages HR/Recruitment will be deemed the sole property of Virgin Voyages. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Virgin Voyages as a result of the referral or through other means.
