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Sr. Data Engineer
Office hybrid - San Francisco, CA
Salesforce is embarking on our own Digital Transformation to deliver customer success for our customers and accelerate our growth. A key pillar of this transformation is to build data platforms and automated data pipelines to provide data-driven insights and recommendations to support the growth in Marketing.
We are looking for a Data engineer who has experience building data pipelines and metrics for Sales or Marketing organizations. In this role, you will work with business partners across Marketing functions to understand business needs, translate them to technical requirements, wrangle data from various systems, and design automated data pipelines to drive insights. You will work with internal technology groups to automate the data collection and definition process.
The Data Engineer will also be responsible end-to-end data management activities, including but not limited to identify fields, data lineage and integration, performing data quality checks, analysis and presenting data.
Responsibilities
- Actively develop and maintain data pipelines and workflows problem scoping, data cleaning, analysis, and testing
- You will create the vision for Data and Data Warehousing across a product vertical and create a plan to achieve that vision
- Own the interaction between IT Data teams to automate the processes.
- Manage launching data models into production
- Design & develop easy, repeatable and reusable automation for projects
- Manage and own data warehouse plans across Marketing
- Review and validate logical and physical design to ensure alignment with the defined solution architecture. Review solution design and ensure that the defined standards and framework are followed.
- Evaluate, determine root cause and resolve critical issues.
- Work with internal team members and external partners to support data collection and analysis and understand reporting needs
- Collaborate with Data Science teams and support them with all the data they would need to produce their models.
- Manage technical consultant(s)
- A related technical degree required
- 8+ years related information systems experience in a data engineering, data modeling, automation and analytics
- Deep understanding of data engineering concepts, database designs, associated tools, system components, internal processes and architecture
- Working as a solution designer in a customer-focused team
- Writing and maintaining complex ETL
- Working closely with Analytics/Data Science teams
- Proficiency with SQL, Bash and Python scripting
- Proficiency with API based real time ingestions
- AWS Lambdas for triggering real time pipelines using platform events
- Team-first mentality with excellent interpersonal skills in order to build strong relationships that will be critical for the success in this role
- Must be able to proactively communicate status and identify risks
- Self-starter, highly motivated, able to shift directions quickly when priorities change, think through problems to come up with innovative solutions and deliver against tight deadlines
- Must be results oriented and able to move forward without complete information and with minimal direction
- ETL technologies (Mulesoft, Jitterbit, Informatica etc.)
- Marketing technology and work is a plus
- Salesforce data models is a huge plus
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