The Red Ventures Home and Utility group is looking for a talented Data Engineering Manager to join our team! As a Data Engineering Manager at Red Ventures, you will have the opportunity to build technology that drives real value for the users of our products all aimed at helping people choose best possible services/products for them. You will lead a team tasked with designing, developing, testing, and maintaining big data pipelines to create a foundation that powers our business analytics and machine learning efforts to drive our vision!

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What You’ll Do:

• Lead a team of Data Engineers with varied experience level to design and build data pipelines from various data sources to a target data warehouse using real-time and batch data load strategies utilizing cutting edge cloud technologies.
• Serve as a people leader by directly mentoring and coaching engineers, supporting formal performance review cycles, and providing regular, actionable feedback to drive individual growth and team success.
• Work with a cross functional team of business stakeholders, engineering leaders, data analysts and data scientists to formulate both business and technical requirements.
• Partner with business and data leaders to understand broader business strategies and define a roadmap outlining how the team will support and enable key initiatives
• Establish and enforce standards for documenting data platform designs, including logical and physical data models, metadata, ETL specifications, and end-to-end integration workflows.
• Design processes for ensuring data quality and integrity while providing timely responses to ad hoc requests.
• Lead and execute proof-of-concepts where appropriate to assess, validate, and improve technical processes and approaches

What We’re Looking For:

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• 3+ years of experience managing a mid size team
• A technical leader who can guide and coach a team of data engineers
• 5+ years of experience in the big data space
• Experience in translating business requirements into technical data solutions on a large scale
• Experience working on Spark (SparkSQL / Data Frames / Dataset API) using Scala/Python to build and maintain complex ETL pipelines.
• Experience with one of the major data warehousing solutions (we use Databricks but welcome candidates with experience in Snowflake, Oracle, Terradata or Redshift)
• 4+ years of experience working on Cloud technologies (we use AWS but welcome candidates with experience in Azure or GCP)
• Experience with GitHub and CI/CD processes
• Experience driving operational excellence for large-scale data platforms, including reliability, scalability, performance and cost optimization
• Experience with Compute technologies like EMR and Databricks
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Enthusiastic, highly motivated and ability to learn quickly.
• Able to work through ambiguity in a fast-paced, dynamically changing business environment.

Compensation:

This range reflects total cash compensation, which may include base salary only or base salary plus target bonus, depending on the role. Where eligible, equity may also be offered separately and not included below. Actual compensation varies based on location, experience, and qualifications.

• Total Cash Compensation Range: $130,000 – $205,000 per year

Additionally, the following benefits are provided by Red Ventures, subject to eligibility requirements.

• Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Holiday Pay
• 401(k) with match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential.  That’s why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy.  Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.

Who We Are:

Red Ventures is a global portfolio of high-growth companies — spanning several U.S. businesses, a joint venture in the health services industry, and strategic investments in Europe. Their businesses include The Points Guy, Lonely Planet, Bankrate, the Allconnect Platform, RV Home Client Growth, RV Growth & Transformation, Sage Home Loans Corporation, and more. Across the portfolio, Red Ventures businesses deliver seamless digital experiences for consumers, help Fortune 100 clients solve large-scale digital growth challenges, and create world-class experiences and opportunities for employees. Learn more at redventures.com and follow @RedVentures on LinkedIn and Instagram.

At Red Ventures, we believe diverse, inclusive teams are better. To help you better understand our core values and beliefs, we encourage you to watch this brief YouTube video: Our Belief Statements. This will give you insight into the principles that guide our work and our commitment to fostering an inclusive environment.

Red Ventures is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or any other basis protected by law. Employment at Red Ventures is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. 

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with disabilities. This includes providing reasonable accommodation where appropriate. Should you require a reasonable accommodation to apply or participate in the job application or interview process, please contact accommodation@redventures.com. 

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Candidates located anywhere within the Central or Eastern Time Zones are also eligible for consideration for this role.

As a Senior Big Data Solutions Architect (Sr Resident Solutions Architect) in our Professional Services team you will work with clients on short to medium term customer engagements on their big data challenges using the Databricks platform. You will provide data engineering, data science, and cloud technology projects which require integrating with client systems, training, and other technical tasks to help customers to get most value out of their data. RSAs are billable and know how to complete projects according to specification with excellent customer service. You will report to the regional Manager/Lead.

The impact you will have:

• You will work on a variety of impactful customer technical projects which may include designing and building reference architectures, creating how-to's and productionalizing customer use cases
• Work with engagement managers to scope variety of professional services work with input from the customer
• Guide strategic customers as they implement transformational big data projects, 3rd party migrations, including end-to-end design, build and deployment of industry-leading big data and AI applications
• Consult on architecture and design; bootstrap hands-on projects which leads to a customers' successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks.
• Provide an escalated level of support for customer operational issues.
• You will work with the Databricks technical team, Project Manager, Architect and Customer team to ensure the technical components of the engagement are delivered to meet customer's needs.
• Work with Engineering and Databricks Customer Support to provide product and implementation feedback and to guide rapid resolution for engagement specific product and support issues.

What we look for:

• 9+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics
• Comfortable writing code in either Python or Scala
• Working knowledge of two or more common Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one
• Deep experience with distributed computing with Apache Spark™ and knowledge of Apache Spark™ runtime internals
• Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments
• Working knowledge of MLOps
• Capable of design and deployment of highly performant end-to-end data architectures
• Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope and timelines.
• Documentation and white-boarding skills.
• Experience working with clients and managing conflicts.
• Experience in building scalable streaming and batch solutions using cloud-native components
• Travel to customers up to 20% of the time
• Nice to have: Databricks Certification