Senior Data Engineer - SADA
Austin, TX
About the Job
Join SADA as a Senior Data Engineer!
Your Mission
As a Senior Data Engineer at SADA, you will work collaboratively with key business leads, architects, analysts, and data scientists to understand the business domain and how data can empower them. You will engage with fellow engineers to develop and optimize data platforms, focusing on business intelligence and data engineering to ensure seamless data flows and insightful reporting. You will have the opportunity to propose, define, and develop metrics for business reporting and product/process performance monitoring to drive decision-making for our customers. Engagements vary from consultative to hands-on work and cover a range of domain areas, including BI tool migrations, data pipeline engineering, and big data analytics solutions.
You will be expected to take the lead on whole projects, end-to-end, and mentor less experienced Data Engineers/BI Analysts. You will be recognized as a leader within the team and will build a reputation with Google and our customers. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong understanding of business intelligence combined with experience in developing reporting infrastructures and the ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment. You should have excellent business and communication skills to collaborate with business owners and draw insights from data to answer key business questions. You will also participate in early-stage opportunity qualification calls, as well as head client-facing technical discussions for established projects.
Pathway to Success
#BeOneStepAhead: At SADA, we are in the business of change. We are focused on ever-evolving leading-edge technology. We embrace change enthusiastically and encourage agility. This means that not only do our engineers know that change is inevitable, but they embrace this change to expand their skills, preparing for future customer needs continuously.
Your success starts by positively impacting the direction of a fast-growing practice with vision and passion. You will be measured quarterly by the breadth, magnitude, and quality of your contributions, your ability to estimate accurately, customer feedback at the close of projects, how well you collaborate with your peers, and the consultative polish you bring to customer interactions.
As you continue to execute successfully, we will build a customized development plan together that guides you through the engineering or management growth tracks.
Expectations
Required Travel - <10% travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events.
Customer Facing - You will interact with customers on a regular basis, sometimes daily, other times weekly/bi-weekly. Common touch points occur when qualifying potential opportunities at project kickoff, throughout the engagement as progress is communicated, and at project close. You can expect to interact with a range of customer stakeholders, including engineers, technical project managers, and executives.
Onboarding/Training - The first several weeks of onboarding are dedicated to learning and will encompass learning materials/assignments and compliance training, as well as meetings with relevant individuals. Details of the timeline are shared closer to the start date.
Job Requirements
Required Qualifications:
- Extensive experience in a Business Intelligence role, including data warehousing, business intelligence tools, data visualization tools, and data engineering technologies
- Experience with upgrading and migrating legacy BI Tools to data visualization tools like Tableau, Looker, etc.
- Experience gathering business requirements, using business intelligence tools to extract data, formulate metrics, and build reports
- Experience in designing and delivering cross-functional custom reporting solutions
- Proficiency with enterprise BI tools like Looker, MicroStrategy, Tableau, PowerBI, OBIEE, Domo, Superset etc
- Strong experience in cloud-based data engineering, including building and managing data pipelines using GCP services or similar (e.g., Databricks, dbt)
- Experience embedding BI reports into customer portals
- Experience developing automated functionality by interacting with BI tools programmatically using SDKs
- Proficiency with query development (SQL) and optimization
- Experience working in large-scale data warehouse environments
- Strong experience in conducting large-scale data analysis to support business needs
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proven ability to meet tight deadlines, multi-task, and prioritize workload
- Detail-oriented with a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow through on projects
Useful Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience working with Google Cloud data products (CloudSQL, Spanner, Cloud Storage, Bigtable, BigQuery, Dataprep, etc.)
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Scala, Java, or R and SQL
- Demonstrated leadership and self-direction—willingness to teach others and learn new techniques
About SADA An Insight company
Values: SADA stands for inclusion, fairness, and doing the right thing. From our very beginning, we've championed a diverse workplace where we support and learn from each other, amplifying the impact we make with our customers. We're proud that our teams are composed of contributors who represent a wide array of backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer. Our five core values are the foundation of everything we do:
- Make Them Rave
- Be Data Driven
- Think One Step Ahead
- Drive Purposeful Impact
- Do The Right Thing
Work with the Best: SADA has been the largest Google Cloud partner in North America since 2016 and, for the seventh year in a row, has been named a Google Global Partner of the Year . This year, SADA was named a Google Cloud Global Partner of the year 2024. SADA has also been awarded Best Place to Work year after year by the Business Intelligence Group and Inc. Magazine, and was recognized as a Niche Player in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Public Cloud IT Transformation Services.
Benefits: Unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, competitive and attractive compensation, performance-based bonuses, paid holidays, generous medical, dental, vision plans, life, short and long-term disability insurance, 401K/RRSP with match, as well as Google-certified training programs and a professional development stipend.
Business Performance: SADA has been named to the INC 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies list for the last 10+ years in a row, garnering Honoree status. CRN has also named SADA on the Top 500 Global Solutions Providers list for the past 5 years. The overall culture continues to evolve with engineering at its core:3200+ projects completed, 4000+ customers served, 10K+ workloads, and 30M+ users migrated to the cloud.
To request reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, contact careers@sada.com. SADA complies with federal and state/provincial disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and candidates with disabilities.
