Lead Big Data Engineer

We’re looking for a Lead Big Data Engineer to help us build out our marketing and analytics platforms for Rise Interactive’s New Buenos Aires location. Our platform processes billions of records today – and we’re just getting started. This role is not a research or analytical role. Our goal is a developer who is extremely strong in data science rather than a data scientist with limited coding skills. This is an individual contributor role that is expected to contribute to production solutions in addition to leading and teaching other engineers on the team. This position will develop the entire data pipeline from source to front-ends.

Responsibilities

• Implement and optimize data processing pipeline for terabytes of data
• Design and build our data warehouse as well as real-time data reporting systems
• Promote and nurture good team practices such as unit testing, code reviews, build/test automation, etc.
• Proactively mentor and guide application developers to improve their quality and simplicity in design and code
• Design, build and use tools to understand our product platform behavior and performance
• Design and conduct experiments to test concepts, technologies, and algorithms
• Implement analytics tools to maximize the value of collected data
• Implement data tests in our data quality framework to ensure data is clean and accurate
• Adhere to security policies and guidelines to ensure our data is protected and safe
• Embrace and assist in evolving our Agile (Scrum) team processes and developer role responsibilities
• Own the discover, delivery, evolution, and maintenance of the team’s complex data projects

Required Skills

• Smart, high aptitude to learn new things and sense of urgency to get things done
• Extremely strong ETL programming skills using tools like Python, Spark, PySpark, Hadoop, MapReduce, Kafka
• Experience building data access layers via cubes, data marts, APIs, or visualization tools like Tableau or D3
• Practical experience with Big data and NoSQL technologies desired
• Comfortable working with several large, complex SQL databases and SQL queries
• Experience working in cloud-only infrastructure, especially Amazon Web Services
• 6+ years of experience working with large amounts of real data
• A strong passion for empirical research and answering hard questions
• Team player – demonstrated experience on a few teams that have shipped a product
• Professional developer – experienced with source control (Git) and bug tracking
• Practical-minded – chooses stability/reliability/maintainability over shiny new objects
• Passionate about technology – ideally you build things outside of work for fun
• Scripting skills – must be totally comfortable at the Linux command line
• Expertise in applied statistics or machine learning
• Experience delivering data products in the marketing, ad tech space is also a plus

English level: Upper Intermediate / Advanced