Data Engineer

Help with building and operating company wide data platform, providing data warehouse, analytics and application services to other teams across the organization with some guidance. Have a basic understanding and passion to learn large-scale distributed systems from design to deploy. Make conscious choices and can explain the reasoning behind them or teach a teammate what they need to know to review code. The platform that was helped built would influence analytics at Rackspace and business decisions at Rackspace. Requires working knowledge and experience in own job discipline and broadens capabilities. Continues to build knowledge of the company, processes and customers. Performs a range of assignments related to job discipline. Uses prescribed guidelines or processes in analyzing situations. Receives a moderate level of guidance and direction.

What You'll Do

• Write excellent, fully-tested code to build ETL /ELT data pipelines on Cloud.
• Provide in-depth and always-improving code reviews to your teammates
• Build cloud data solutions and provide domain perspective on storage, big data platform services, serverless architectures, hadoop ecosystem, RDBMS, DW/DM, NoSQL databases and security
• Participate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new solutions and migrating existing data applications on the AWS/GCP platform
• Fix things before they break
• Troubleshoot and support production, addressing technical debt to improve sustainability
• Implement product features and refine specifications with our Data scientists, Data Analysts and Data Architects  
• Resolve operational issues by collaborating with upstream support groups and other engineering teams.
• Work with other teams to reduce friction in the data ingestion and extraction pipelines
• Mentor a team of data engineers  

Qualifications

• Communication skills
• Must haves: DW concepts, ETL, Python, Cloud Technologies
• Nice to have: GCP, Bigquery, Airflow
• English advanced
• Bachelor degree

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About Rackspace TechnologyWe are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.  More on Rackspace TechnologyThough we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.