About us
We are a fast-growing tech-enabled service company revolutionizing performance assurance for the distributed solar and energy storage industries.
We are building a more sustainable future for the planet through our passionate teams, our innovative technology, and by creating an amazing customer experience.
The Job
We are looking for an experienced Data Platform Lead to own the availability, reliability, recoverability, security and performance of our data platforms.
You will be responsible to architect, implement, manage and optimize robust data platforms. Key Responsibilities include:
• Hands on Data Platform Administration (33%)
• Participate in change management process; implement database changes
• Ensure data structures are available, reliable, recoverable, secure and performant
• Establish appropriate monitoring and alerting mechanisms for data platforms, including runbooks
• Establish a transparent intake process for data platform administration requests; complete requests
• Proactively identify improvements in database code or structure to improve performance and/or mitigate costs; make improvements as needed and/or work with stakeholders to prioritize and track the work
• Create and maintain dashboards and alerts to track and forecast data platform costs
• Own and Lead Critical Data Platform Projects (33%)
• Own successful outcome and positive impact for critical large scale data platform projects including project management and communication
• Mitigate risks and clear blockers
• Collaborate cross functionally to drive initiatives
• Contribute hands-on to the work as needed
• Own the Data Platform Roadmap and Strategy (33%)
• Establish, communicate and maintain a rolling 5 Quarter roadmap for Data Platform
• Drive stakeholder alignment on roadmap and prioritization
• Ensure scalable and cost effective architecture
Required Skills and Qualifications
• Data Architecture Experience: You are comfortable with data architecture and patterns for both structured and unstructured data.
• You have experience owning and maintaining distributed big data platforms such as Databricks or Hadoop as well as relational databases such as MySQL.
• Data Engineering Expertise: You have a strong working knowledge of Data Engineering processes and standards.
• Leadership Abilities: You possess strong leadership skills, with the ability to provide mentoring cross-functionally.
• Communication: You have excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
• Comprehensive Benefits: We have you covered with 100% of health insurance monthly premiums for employees, and 50% for dependents.
• Performance Bonus: Because exceptional work deserves exceptional rewards.
• Eligibility begins after 90 days.
• Equity Stake: Join us in shaping the future and be rewarded for your dedication with stock options.
Others
• Most of our roles offer the opportunity to work remotely.
• We prioritize applicants near one of our employee clusters and offer one or more local gatherings per year.