Senior Data Engineer

Sky System Inc

Remote, OR(remote)

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JOB DETAILS

JOB TYPE

Full-time

SKILLS

Accounting, Atlassian JIRA, Budgeting, Business Intelligence, Business Operations, Business Support, Channel Strategies, Communication Skills, Data Analysis, Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Processing, Data Quality, Data Structures, Data Warehousing, Database Extract Transform and Load (ETL), Debugging Skills, Detail Oriented, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), Failure Analysis, Financial Transactions, Forecasting, Health Maintenance, Identify Issues, Incident Response, Leadership, Logistics, NetSuite, Operational Support, Oracle Applications, Power BI, Problem Solving Skills, Project Tracking, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Quality Management, Quality Monitoring, Relational Databases (RDBMS), Reliability Engineering, Reporting Dashboards, Retail, Retail Operations, Risk Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, SQL (Structured Query Language), Sales, Scalable System Development, Snowflake Schema, Supply Chain, Tableau, User Interface Tools, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)

LOCATION

Remote, OR

POSTED

7 days ago

Role: Senior Data Engineer Position Type: Full-Time Contract (40hrs/week) Contract Duration: 6 months+ (With a Possibility-of-Extension) Work Schedule: 8 hours/day (Mon-Fri) Location: 100% Remote (Candidates can work from anywhere in LATAM) Project Description We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our team and help build and operate a scalable, reliable data platform that supports core business operations and reporting. This role is focused on developing and maintaining data pipelines, improving platform reliability, and ensuring the accuracy and availability of data used across the organization. The ideal candidate is comfortable working in a hands-on engineering role, takes ownership of problems end-to-end, and proactively identifies opportunities to improve data quality, performance, and system resilience. Building new data pipelines, monitoring and maintaining, addressing issues, work they need to do to improve monitoring and health maintenance of data, infrastructure improvements. If there's extra capacity they might get asked to help in supporting data models and reporting. Not looking for someone building frontend dashboards and end users - more data transport, maintenance etc. Duties/Day to Day Overview Data Pipeline Development & Maintenance Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines to ingest, transform, and deliver data from a variety of source systems Develop and optimize data models and structures that support downstream reporting and analytics Ensure pipelines are performant, reliable, and designed with maintainability in mind Platform Reliability & Monitoring Implement and enhance data quality checks, monitoring, and alerting across pipelines Identify gaps in observability and proactively propose and implement improvements Identify weaknesses in system resilience, including recovery processes and failure handling, and implement improvements Incident Response & Root Cause Analysis Act as a first responder for data pipeline and platform incidents Perform root cause analysis on failures, data discrepancies, and performance issues, and identify recurring patterns or systemic issues that require longer-term solutions Implement durable fixes and preventative measures to reduce recurrence System & Infrastructure Improvements Identify and implement improvements to data architecture, pipeline orchestration, and system performance Automate manual processes and streamline data workflows Contribute to ongoing enhancements of our Snowflake-based data platform Collaboration Work with internal stakeholders to clarify requirements and troubleshoot data-related issues Partner with analytics teams to ensure data is structured and delivered in a way that supports reporting needs Day to Day 8am standup - only standing meeting they have, others will be ad hoc or if they're working on a project, working directly with the stakeholder, understanding what they need and where. Spend a lot of time on Slack and communication - say hello and goodbye in appropriate channels Providing visibility around appointments, leaving for a couple hours, etc. Do not need to be on zoom rooms all day but that might change - NEED TO BE OKAY WITH THIS Using Toggle - newer implementation, tracking progress on projects. Leadership uses this data to do more effective budgeting and forecasting with accounting Look for immediate errors or issues they need to resolve and work those issues. Have had more issues in the last quarter or two Then working through Jira tickets, speak to what they accomplished, how did you move the project forward. Quick EOD report snapshot Top Requirements Experience building and maintaining data pipelines using modern data warehouse technologies (e.g., Snowflake) MUST HAVE SNOWFLAKE Experience with an ETL/ELT tool (e.g., integrate.io, Airflow, Fivetran, dbt, or similar) Must have experience with ETL tools, will train on integrate.io if they do not have that experience Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational databases at scale Expert in SQL, Python is helpful Experience supporting data that underpins front-end reporting tools (e.g., BI platforms such as Sigma Computing or similar) Must have some experience with BI/reporting tools - PowerBI, Tableau, etc. Sigma not required. Will use it in a support capacity, debugging, issues with data flow between Snowflake and Sigma Experience working with data sourced from ERP systems in a retail or operational environment (e.g., NetSuite or similar) NetSuite not required. Open to other ERP systems - Oracle, etc. Ideally understand retail data or data coming out of an ERP, understand financial transactions and sales Proven ability to perform root cause analysis and resolve data and pipeline issues Experience with data quality frameworks, monitoring, and alerting systems Experience improving or standardizing data platform processes and practices Soft skills Attention to detail & quality of work Proactivity Critical thinking What We're Looking For Ownership mindset: takes responsibility for problems and drives them through resolution Proactive thinking: identifies risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities without being prompted Strong problem-solving skills in ambiguous environments Ability to balance speed with rigor, ensuring solutions are both effective and reliable Clear and effective communication, particularly when working through issues or clarifying requirements Additional Qualifications This role is not front end reporting Open to similar industries - logistics & shipping, supply chain, etc.

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Sky System Inc

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