About the Team/Role
We're the Data Platform team. We are the core data infrastructure and workflow group at the company, working with cutting-edge cloud data technologies. Our team works hard, covers for one another, and maintains work-life balance. We own our results and we take pride of ownership in everything we do.
As a Data Engineer at WEX, you'll be responsible for building and maintaining the bridge between our data and the rest of the organization. You'll work with stakeholders to understand business requirements and then implement SQL-first transformation workflows to deploy analytics code. You'll help ensure the integrity, reliability, and usability of data for stakeholders, so they can make critical data-driven decisions. You'll be part of a collaborative scrum team that consists of an Agility Engineer, Technical Program Manager, Data Engineers, QA, and DevOps. You'll also be supported by a manager that is here to listen and help you grow.
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How you'll make an impact
- A highly motivated individual who loves working as part of a high performing team
- Someone who cares deeply for team results, checks your ego at the door, and takes pride in owning results
- You can share one or more passion projects or have contributed to open-source projects in your own time.
- You are constantly learning and upskilling, because that's who you are.
- You are a critical thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- You are self motivated and able to work independently with minimum supervision.
- Creating optimized data pipelines using Qlik Replicate, Fivetran, custom code using Python, and Snowpipes
- Working with stakeholders to understand business requirements and then implement SQL-first transformation workflows to deploy analytics code using dbt (data build tool)
- Designing efficient data marts that are catered towards the needs of very specific business units, functions, or departments
Experience you'll bring
The successful candidate is motivated by thinking big data, is technically proficient, and enjoys working in a fast-paced environment. You care deeply about the veracity (i.e. consistency, accuracy, quality, and trustworthiness) of data. You enjoy designing, maintaining, and optimizing data pipelines & infrastructure, for data collection, management, transformation, and access. You also enjoy understanding complex business requirements and translating them into data models for the end users.
In addition, you:
- Are a strong critical thinker with analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Are self motivated and able to work independently with minimum supervision
- Bring thought leadership to your area of responsibility and enjoy staying ahead in your field
- Solid understanding of dbt to perform data transformation tasks
- Strong understanding of data design principles and dimensional data modeling
- Advanced SQL skills and understanding of query optimization strategies in Snowflake
- Fundamental understanding of DAGs and operators in Airflow, with hands-on experience with action and sensor operators
- Fundamental understanding of Docker and deploying code as a container
- Solid understanding of basic programming concepts in Python or similar modern languages
- Solid understanding of Qlik Replicate and Enterprise Manager, managing endpoints and streaming CDC (change data capture) tasks
- Solid understanding of Fivetran, ingesting files and SaaS (e.g. Salesforce, Workday) data sources