Senior Data Engineer

As the leading workforce management solution for the energy industry, Workrise makes it easier for skilled laborers to find work, and for companies to find in-demand workers. 

The Data & Analytics team at Workrise is a centralized team that sits in the PEX (Product & Engineering) org and consists of Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, Data Analysts & Data Scientists. We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to bring technical leadership and engineering experience to the data team. The ideal candidate is experienced in building data pipelines as well as transforming data from its raw state into clean and consumable objects. 

Why Join us? The Data & Analytics team at Workrise is responsible for our full data stack, from data ingestion, to transformation, data warehousing, analysis/data visualization, and maintaining the tools and software needed to power this whole process. Our ultimate goal is to empower the organization and our customers with data insights to help improve daily decision making, increase operational efficiency, and identify areas of risk or improvement along the way. We do this through utilizing a modern, cloud-first data stack for everything from data ingestion to visualization.

What you'll be doing:

• You will be responsible for building & maintaining data pipelines ingesting & processing information from various sources that feed our data lake.
• You will also help transform raw data into consumable & curated datasets to support enterprise decisions.
• You'll be proactively driving the technical roadmap for our data platform based on current and future demands.
• You'll be partnering with the Data & Analytics leadership to prioritize & ensure business requirements are met.
• You'll be creating and/or overseeing the development of data pipelines, extracting data from our various applications (internal & external sources) into the Data Platform.
• You’ll help drive the ingestion and transformation roadmap of internal/external data sources to support the ever-changing business evolution.
• You'll operate high-quality, cloud-based data services, ensuring uptime & performance within SLOs. 
• You’ll work with 1st party and 3rd party data sources including external APIs and various database technologies
• Write automated testing and monitoring for ensuring successful operation of our platform
• Managing and maintaining our data orchestration platform, Prefect
• Applying and ensuring data governance policies and personal data protections consistently across all of our data sources
• Enabling the business to access and utilize data for impactful analysis guiding day to day decision making

Requirements:

• You are comfortable and enjoy working with cross-functional teams consisting of engineering, business, and analytics.
• You are expected to be a leader in the data organization ,ie:, coaching the team on technical matters, defining best practices, and creating coding standards and patterns that can be reused by the rest of the engineers.
• You have built and managed Data Lakes & Data Warehouses.
• You have 5+ years of experience in a Software / Data Engineering role.
• You are very comfortable modeling data (dims, facts, star-schema, denorm, etc.)
• You have experience with cloud data warehouse solutions (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Spark, etc)
• Good understanding of APIs and data processing (batched and streaming).
• Solid track record of partnering and supporting Business Intelligence, Analytics and Data Science requirements.
• Very comfortable modeling data - both OLTP & OLAP.You are well versed in at least one cloud vendor (AWS, Azure, GCP)You have strong experience in SQL and Python.
• Lastly, you have strong communication skills - comfortable interacting with both engineering and business focused teams.
• Our current data stack: Snowflake, Fivetran, DBT, Prefect & GCP Cloud.

Essential Job Functions:

• Regular, on-time attendance
• Ability to travel 2-4 times a year to Austin, TX
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Ability to use office equipment such as a computer, copier and telephone
• Ability to use office computer programs 
• Constantly remaining in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods
• Ability to manipulate office equipment such as a computer, copier and telephone

More than a job:

At Workrise you can feel good about supporting our mission to serve those who do the hard work. We recognize that making an impact matters to you and we believe in providing an environment that fosters your growth. We use data to drive our decisions and improve the experience of our workers and the clients we serve. With mutual respect for each other, we continually collaborate to find the best solution.

In appreciation for your contributions, we support you with:

• Working alongside talented peers who will bring out the best in you
• The opportunity to significantly impact the growth curve of an already high-growth business
• Benefits for full-time employees, flexible paid time off, 401k with company matching, medical, dental and vision insurance

Workrise is committed to providing an environment where any and all people feel belonging, respected, and free to be their authentic selves. We welcome applicants of all gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, educational background, religion, ethnicity, disability, age, veteran status, and citizenship. We’d love to learn what you can add to our team.

Who we are:

In 2014, we set out to create a better way to manage and deploy Oil & Gas workers at scale through technology. Over time, we’ve grown to add Renewables in service of the energy industry. 

We’re a Series E startup, backed by industry-leading investors Founders Fund, Bedrock Capital, Andreesen Horowitz, and Baillie Gifford. To date, we’ve placed over 26,000 skilled tradespeople with over 500 businesses and are poised to grow exponentially.

We’d love to share more through the interview process and look forward to learning more about your journey.

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