[Remote] Staff Data Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rezdy is a company dedicated to reshaping the tours and activities industry through innovative technology. They are seeking a Staff Data Engineer to evolve their data platform, ensuring its reliability and performance while supporting data-driven decision-making across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve our data platform for scale and reliability
- Define and implement advanced platform engineering test practices, including automated data integrity checks and CI/CD pipelines to ensure data quality
- Act as a technical leader and mentor for the data engineering team, setting standards for system design and platform reliability
- Maintain and support the enterprise data platform and existing data pipelines
- Ensure reliable data ingestion, transformation, and reporting across Checkfront, Manifest, Regiondo, and Rezdy
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across the data stack to ensure data accuracy and availability
- Work closely with internal business users to understand their reporting and analytics requirements
- Design and implement new data models in BigQuery using dbt based on business needs
- Maintain and manage data ingestion pipelines
- Deliver clean, well-structured datasets that power reporting and dashboards in GoodData or Google Sheets
- Optimize BigQuery queries and data models for performance and cost efficiency
- Ensure data quality, documentation, and governance across the data platform
- Set up a testing and validation framework to automatically ensure data integrity across the platform
- Contribute to data platform monitoring, alerting, and platform reliability
Skills
- Significant experience designing, building, and operating high-scale, distributed data platforms
- Strong experience with SQL and data modeling in modern cloud data warehouses
- Hands-on experience with Google BigQuery
- Experience using dbt for transformation and data modeling
- Experience with data ingestion tools such as Fivetran or similar ELT platforms
- Experience supporting analytics platforms or BI tools
- Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts and dimensional modeling
- Expertise in maintaining and operating production data pipelines and platforms
- Ability to work with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable data models
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
- Proven track record of mentoring engineers and improving technical standards
- Experience leading large-scale architectural migrations
- Ability to influence cross-functional roadmaps and communicate complex technical concepts
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