By joining the American Red Cross you will touch millions of lives every year and experience the greatness of the human spirit at its best. Are you ready to be part of the world's largest humanitarian network?
Join us—Where your Career is a Force for Good!
Job Description:
WHY CHOOSE US?
As one of the nation’s premier humanitarian organizations, the American Red Cross is dedicated to helping people in need throughout the United States and, in association with other Red Cross networks, throughout the world. When you join our team, you have a direct impact on a meaningful mission, and you can help save lives every day. If you share our passion for helping people, join us in this excellent career opportunity. Work where your career is a force for good.
We are committed to the diversity of our workforce and to delivering our programs and services in a culturally competent manner reflecting the communities we serve. Our work environment is collaborative, respectful, and inclusive with a focus on building allyship and a culture of belonging that empowers all team members. Come to learn, grow, and succeed while sharing your passion for making a difference.
The Red Cross supports a variety of cultural and community resource groups for employees and volunteers. From the Ability Network, our Asian American & Pacific Islander Resource Group, the Latino Resource Group, and Red Cross PRIDE, to the Umoja African American Resource Group, our Veterans+ Resource Group, and the Women’s Resource Group, these networks provide connections, mentoring and help give voice to important concerns and opinions.
At the American Red Cross, your uniqueness can shine!
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE JOB:
The Enterprise Data & Analytics Team is building out a team of Data Engineers to support mission-transforming work through data at the American Red Cross. As a result, we are hiring for a Lead Data Engineers to help do this exciting work!
As a Lead Data Engineer for the American Red Cross, you will be part of a Data Management team that is modernizing and transforming our data and reporting capabilities across multiple verticals by implementing a new modernized data architecture.
The Lead Data Engineer will help develop, maintain and support an enterprise data system and corresponding data and will be responsible for database design and implementation of agreed upon standards. This position requires an innovative engineer who is passionate about data & data quality. The ideal candidate will possess strong data warehousing experience and the ability to develop scalable data pipelines that make data management and analytics/reporting faster, more insightful, and more efficient.
Scope: Individual contributor that works under limited supervision. Apply subject matter knowledge. Capacity to understand specific needs or requirements to apply skills/knowledge.
Qualified candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. The American Red Cross does not sponsor employment visas.
WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED (required/minimum qualifications):
• Education*: 4-year college degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. Prefer academic backgrounds in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related technical field.
• 7+ years of relevant work experience in data engineering, business intelligence or related field.
• Experience with a variety of database technologies and data warehouse schema design patterns (snowflake and star in particular).
• Experience with cloud-based databases, specifically AWS technologies (e.g., Redshift, RDS, S3, EMR, EC2, Kinesis)
• Proficient in Informatica (Power Center, IDMC, IDQ, MFT) required
• Experience using SQL queries as well as writing and optimizing SQL queries in a business environment with large-scale, complex datasets.
• Experience creating ETL and/or ELT jobs.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies.
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Process oriented with great documentation skills.
• Proficient in object-oriented programming (Python in particular).
• Experience with DevOps methodologies and tools (e.g., Git, Artifactory, etc.).
• Experience with DBT is a plus
• Experience developing in a Linux environment.
• Experience developing integrations across multiple systems and APIs is a plus.
• Experience with Big Data tools like Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, etc. is a plus.
* Combination of candidate’s education and general experience satisfies requirements so long as the total years equate to description’s minimum education and general experience years combined (Management experience cannot be substituted).
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