Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. YPO is seeking a Data Engineer to support its internal data architecture and member-facing services. The role will design data services and pipelines, support data products, analyze trends, improve data quality, and identify opportunities for data acquisition and development.
Responsibilities
- Help determine the direction and implementation of YPO’s internal data architecture and its usage throughout the organization and its member-facing services
- Collaborate with the data product owner on new product development
- Design and build data services and pipelines that can support a wide-variety of use-cases
- Support internal data products and services by analyzing and organizing raw data
- Evaluate business needs and objectives as they relate to data usage and development
- Analyze and interpret trends and patterns to help find new opportunities
- Help define data best practices and tool usage
- Explore ways to enhance data quality and reliability
- Identify opportunities for data acquisition
Skills
- Ability to work collaboratively in a multi-cultural organization with international members, helping them achieve excellence in voluntary roles for YPO initiatives
- Excellent interpersonal skills, adept at building meaningful relationships with all levels of associates, members and vendors. Adaptable, insightful, empathetic and reliable
- Able to maintain discretion and integrity of confidential information
- Resourceful and able to work independently with initiative and good judgement. Effective time management, organization and prioritization, managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Possesses a distinct global mindset, sensitive to local and international customs and protocols
- Able to identify problems, research alternatives, provide solutions and/or resolve issues in a timely manner. Anticipates member needs and delivers with clarity
- Analytical with ability to influence and guide appropriately and execute. Natural curiosity and desire to learn more; proficiency and interest in applying new technologies and tools
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including proof reading, with a meticulous attention to detail. Adjusts communication style appropriately to the audience
- Professional presence, appearance, and stature to interact easily with YPO members, C-level executives and high-profile corporate leaders
- Bachelor's degree in data engineering or at least 8+ years of comparable professional experience in a data engineering role
- Extensive hands-on experience with relational, noSQLgraph and GraphQL database design
- Technical expertise with data models, data mining, and segmentation techniques
- Knowledge of applicable programming languages (e.g. Java and Python) and experience working within a test-driven CI/CD development pipeline
- Great numerical and analytical skills
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to combine data from a variety of different sources, and to see how that data can be correlated to provide valuable business and end-user insights
- Experience working with a wide variety of data platforms like Snowflake and BigQuery with Looker and Tableau, and data services that include Salesforce and 3rd party API-based data
- Ability to work flexible and/or extended hours as needed to accommodate members and team members in multiple time zones
- Willingness and ability to travel, domestically and internationally, without restrictions, approximately 20% per year
- Master's degree preferred
- Prefer 5+ years' experience working as a data engineer for a consumer-facing organization with a large and varied customer/user-base
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