VP, Data Engineering
Company: Zillow
Location: Seattle
Posted on: May 14, 2022
Job Description:
About the team Zillow Group is on a multi-year journey to
replatform the real estate industry, removing friction for buyers,
sellers, renters, and borrowers. The Data Engineering team is at
the heart of accomplishing this mission, building the data
platforms and data sets that enable easy access to data for all
teams within the business.
We are hiring a Vice President to lead the Data Engineering team,
situated within Zillow's AI & Analytics organization.
The Data Engineering team enables the success of the company with
data platforms that facilitate the flow of data to all parts of the
business, business intelligence and reporting platforms that
enables decision makers self-service access to data, and data marts
/ data warehouses that cross-link data across our businesses into
denormalized data sets. This team will partner heavily with teams
in product engineering, marketing, lines of businesses, and machine
learning and data science teams in order to accomplish their goals.
The team is skilled in the Hadoop ecosystem - Kafka, Spark, Flink,
Hive, Presto - as well as AWS technologies and some machine
learning. About the role We are looking for a technically
conversant leader, coach, problem solver, and data engineering
specialist to lead the Data Engineering team. To be successful in
this role you will need to:
- Develop and own relationships with your business partners,
engineering, marketing, and product management.
- Partner with the business to co-author strategies and tactics
to enable flow of data across the company.
- Grow the team over the coming year by advocating for additional
resourcing and hiring into new open positions.
- Present the vision and strategic recommendations with clarity
and concision to stakeholders having varying degrees of data
fluency.
- Manage and prioritize requests from partners and set realistic
expectations. Transparently communicate about priorities on a
regular basis.
- Enhance the team's abilities to report on performance, focus on
impact, and provide transparency about critical workstreams.
- Hold a "big picture" view of Zillow Group. Identify emerging
trends in big data of which leaders should be aware. Identify ways
to utilize and organize our data to guide big strategic
decisions.
- Be accountable to the leadership of Data & Analytics for your
success.
- Partner with your senior leaders to promote career growth. This
role has been categorized as a Remote position. "Remote" employees
do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead,
work from a physical location of their choice which must be
identified to the Company. Employees may live in any of the 50 US
States, with limited exceptions. In certain cases, an employee in a
remote-designated job may need to live in a specific region or time
zone to support customers or clients as part of their role.In
Colorado, the standard pay range for this role is $240,000.00 -
$360,000.00 Annually. This range is specific to Colorado and may
not be applicable to other locations. Who you are
- A leader of data engineering teams with extensive experience in
building data architectures and providing strategic guidance and
decision support
- A creative and innovative problem solver and storyteller with
data, comfortable with helping partners think and solve difficult
business challenges. You thrive on partnership and are able to
build the bridge between the requirements of the business and the
needed data and analytics to help the business reach their
goals.
- Have experience building data platforms that enable data
producing teams to share data with data consuming teams efficiently
and at scale.
- Have experience creating analytical data sets and data
warehouses that enable self-service access to KPIs and
metrics.
- Have consistently coached different data engineering roles (e.g
data engineers, software developers, business intelligence, etc.)
of your teams and growing leadership (managers and senior
individual contributors) on your teams throughout your career.
- Have experience in analytics. You are familiar with data
engineering tools and methods possibly including Java, Python, SQL,
ETL, Airflow, Spark, Kafka, Hive, Presto, and AWS technologies
including S3, DynamoDB, and EMR. In addition to a competitive base
salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on
factors such as experience, performance and location. Get to know
us Zillow is reimagining real estate to make it easier to unlock
life's next chapter. As the most-visited real estate website in the
United States, Zillow - and its affiliates offer customers an
on-demand experience for selling, buying, renting or financing with
transparency and nearly seamless end-to-end service. Millions of
people visit Zillow and its affiliate sites every month to start
their home search, and now they can rely on Zillow to help them
finish it - and no matter what job you're in, you will play a
critical role in making this vision a reality. At Zillow, we're
powered by our innovative and inclusive work culture, where
everyone has the flexibility, support and resources to do the best
work of their careers. Our efforts to streamline the real estate
transaction is supported by our passion to redefine the employee
experience, a deep-rooted culture of innovation, a fundamental
commitment to Equity and Belonging, and world-class benefits . But
don't just take our word for it. Read our reviews on Glassdoor and
recent recognition from multiple organizations, including:
Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For - List 2021 Bloomberg
Gender-Equality Index 2021, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate
Equity Index and HRC's Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality 2021,
Fortune Best Workplaces for Technology 2020, Fortune Best
Workplaces for Millennials 2020, Fortune Best Workplaces for
Parents 2020, and the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Zillow Group is
an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive,
innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to
equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry,
religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age,
citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran
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