Lead Data Engineer, Tableau Enterprise Data Platform team

Company: Tableau
Location: Seattle
Posted on: June 12, 2021

Job Description:

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Job Category

Products and Technology

Job Details

Tableau's Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) team is responsible for engineering and operating Tableau's best in class data platform supporting 5,000+ global employees. EDP's Technology team engineers and operates our cloud data lake on Snowflake and several platform-as-a-service (PaaS) tools used by data engineers, scientists, analytics engineers and anyone working with data flows at Tableau. The team develops mainly in Python, owns the full DevOps lifecycle for our systems deployed on Airlfow, Kubernetes and AWS.

Role Description:

We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer to drive the technology and design for the data platform. You will lead the design and development of new features and systems in the platform. In addition to leading the design, you will be mentoring a small team of dedicated developers to expand their skills and capabilities. This role will explore new technologies and architecture, including cloud data platforms, design as code, microservice API architecture and designing full CI/CD pipelines for the technology.

Your Impact:

Success in this role will be measured by the adoption of our data platform at Tableau, performance of EDP's systems and performing the required role tasks including:

• Understand and support the current architecture.
• Expand the design with a Microservice based API.
• Mentor team members and help them grow their own careers.
• Leading development projects from design to deployment and operations.
• Define, track, and analyze performance and uptime metrics for the Opal data warehouse and the Enterprise Data Platform.
• Handle On Call support as a regular member of the On Call operations across the team.

Proficient Experience:

• Cloud data architecture and DevOps experience including roles, security, storage, ingress and egress.
• Python development.
• Database development including table designs, sql code and sql optimization
• ETL or ELT (Extraction Transform Load) development.
• Kubernetes and Docker.

Helpful Experience:

• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
• Modular and Service based Architectural Design
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) - IAM Roles and Policies, EKS, S3, Lambda, Route 53, EC2, Cloudwatch, Cross Account Security and Access
• Experience with Snowflake or similar MPP database architecture.
• Terraform
• Airflow
• Git CI/CD

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