Senior Data Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:

The Knot Worldwides Data team is looking for a highly motivated highly energetic team-player with a strong analytical mindset to join as aSenior Data Engineer supporting end-to-end data pipelines for our business.

A top priority for the company this year is to establish a robust data foundation to power trusted analytics intelligent ML/AI systems and scalable business growth. This role will be partnering closely with our stakeholders and also with other Data teams to develop data models and data-driven solutions that enable deep analysis and self-service analytics for our Business Domains (Product Marketing and Revenue).

We see a Senior Data Engineer as a hybrid role that combines mostly data engineering skills but also having the ability to pivot through business intelligence or reporting models. You will be responsible for building (leading) end-to-end data pipelines using tools like dbt airbyte airflow and other modern data stack. This role requires proficiency in SQL python data transformation data modeling but also collaboration skills and business acumen as they play a crucial role in enabling data-driven decision-making within our organization.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design build and maintenance of end-to-end scalable data pipelines to collect process and analyze large and complex datasets from various sources including but not only website visitors behavioral tracking customer data transactional data and other business data using tools like Airbyte Python and dbt to write mainly SQL-based data transformations and ensure the data is clean and ready for analysis
• Apply dimensional modeling techniques to design tables and views that map business processes into an enterprise data model.
• Develop and support complex ETL infrastructure to ensure the delivery of clean and reliable data to the organization
• Participate in overall architecture and strategy for the deployment of our end-to-end data pipelines.
• Partner with the rest of Data Platform Engineering Teams to provide business logics to design develop and move data pipelines into production.
• Partner with Manager / Lead to define best practices templates scalable code for our tech stack development mainly in dbt.
• Assist with performance and tuning of our existing models pipelines and data-applications.
• Foster data governance practices ensuring data privacy and security and documenting data pipelines transformations and models contributing to maintaining a data-driven culture within the organization

• Understand our business and processes including how our data pipelines and data apps support the business processes and apply this knowledge to best solve problems.
• Work and communicate with end users / stakeholders across the organization to understand their needs providing insights training them on use of the Information Mart models data-applications or any actionable results in support of decisions.
• Clearly scope track execute and communicate on projects in an Agile environment
• Mentor other Data Engineering team members provide technical leadership and guidance in data engineering projects and initiatives.
• Oversee the top of funnel metrics for at least one Business Domain and ensure consistency in their usage across models and reporting by maintaining great documentation

• Location: Barcelona Spain hybrid role
• Bachelors degree (Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or relational functional field)
• 3 years experience including design development data management administration and support building data models data pipelines data warehousing (Snowflake preferred)
• Advanced proficiency in modeling using SQL and dbt strength in PythonExperience in data ingestion & orchestration (Airbyte & Airflow) is a plus
• Solid understanding of modern data engineering and architecture concepts and practices. This includes knowledge of data warehousing data pipelines data marts semantic layers like Cube and data integration techniques and tools mostly in cloud infrastructure.
• Marketing Domain Knowledge: Solid understanding of Paid Media performance metrics and the ability to convert complex marketing requirements into end-to-end data pipeline designs.
• Solid understanding of different business process models and reporting needs and ability to convert requirements into models and end-to-end data pipeline designs.
• Must be self-motivated and able to work both independently and with others
• Versatile and quick learner with ability to pick up any new skills necessary to get the job done.
• Positive attitude and ability to receive and provide objective and constructive feedback
• Strong organizational and troubleshooting skills with attention to detail curiosity to detect and explain data anomalies.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex data insights to non-technical stakeholders
• Experience in different reporting tools or data applications like Qlik Tableau Power BI Looker Streamlit is a plus
• Work with Agile methodology and JIRA are a plus
• Our international work environment requires fluency in spoken and written English.

WORK MODEL:

This role is and based near one of our office hubs. Youll be expected to work in the office two days a week as part of our hybrid work model.

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