Team Lead, Data Engineering Insights (Remote)
Job Overview
Job title: Team Lead, Data Engineering Insights (Remote)
Job description: What’s the Day to Day Look Like:
- Lead the team that utilizes data processing pipelines to mine location-based insights, create audience segments and integrate them with a myriad of DMP and DSP systems.
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional matrix team members in product, infrastructure, visualization, data science and engineering to identify creative solutions for data targeting, and plan and execute key products from concept to production
- Live and breathe Big Data and analytics systems such as Big Query, Google Cloud Dataflow and Apache Spark; Knowledge of on-premise big data systems such as HDFS/Spark/Kafka is also an asset
- Lead best practices in the team in hybrid cloud-based infrastructure (Google and AWS and on-premise) to collect and process massive volumes of data;
- Assist the team with data pipelines that process over 3 billion rows per day;
- Brainstorm and guide the team to create powerful visualizations that makes data accessible and understandable.
- Lead the team to evaluate new technology and help to define the architecture and design of data delivery systems.
- Contribute with development best practices and experiment with new ideas and always stay on the forefront of advertising industry challenges;
Qualifications (Must Haves):
- Master’s Degree or equivalent in computer science / software engineering, preferably focused on data mining, machine learning, or related quantitative fields.
- Deep knowledge of SQL, Map Reduce and other Big Data languages and processing frameworks.
- Experience designing and coding data pipelines in Java and/or Python;
- Understanding of statistical and predictive modelling, machine learning approaches, geo-spatial analysis and identification of patterns from location/ behavioral data
- Comfortable designing and coding APIs using Flask or equivalent.
- Knowledge of machine learning is an asset. Ability to drive machine learning into actionable results and insights.
- Big plus if you have knowledge of the advertising domain and its technology stack
You are Made for This if:
- Have leadership abilities that the team quickly recognizes.
- You are great in aligning your team’s goals with the organizational goals and bring out the best in the team
- You listen and gather feedback but are also directive where you need to be.
- You are a great coach, a listener and some one whom team members will naturally turn to for guidance
- You are able to balance the short-term urgent vs the long term important priorities for the team.
- You are entrepreneurial and take initiative, finding and executing great ideas with minimal resources
- You naturally fit into cross functional matrix teams and are able to lead without authority and take best ideas irrespective of where they originate.
- You are truly interested in helping your team members grow You are a visionary! Someone who wants to leave a lasting impact on business
- You are excellent at communicating within a team and with clients
- You thrive under pressure and have no problem meeting deadlines
- You are an engaged, passionate team player who everyone wants to work with.
- You can quickly diagnose and analyze software problems and determine solutions with their excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and critical thinking skills.
- You have the burning ambition and interest to contribute to new world class products.
- You learn quickly and are passionate about continuous improvement.
- You possess strong written and verbal communication skills and have well-developed organization and planning skills.
- You love working in a collaborative team setting where you welcome giving and receiving honest, meaningful feedback.
Company: emergiTEL
Expected salary:
Location: Canada
Job date: Sat, 11 Dec 2021 07:22:29 GMT
Job Source: Careerjet.ca