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Staff/Senior Data Engineer, Data Modeling and Architecture - Slack

Slack is looking for expert data engineers to join our Data Engineering team. In this role, you will be working cross-functionally with business domain experts, analytics, and engineering teams to design and implement our Data Warehouse model. You will design, implement and scale data pipelines that transform billions of records into actionable data models that enable data insights.

You will lead initiatives to formalize data governance and management practices, rationalize our information lifecycle and key company metrics. You will provide mentorship and hands-on technical support to build trusted and reliable metrics.

You have deep technical skills, you are comfortable contributing to a nascent data ecosystem, and you can build a strong data foundation for the company. You are a self-starter, detail and quality oriented, and passionate about having a huge impact at Slack.

What you will be doing

• Own the technical strategy for significant portions of Slack’s data model that meets the needs of a diverse group of stakeholders and use cases
• Provide guidance and mentorship to the team against a data modeling strategy that balances speed, extensibility, and reliability
• Lead broad cross functional efforts across data engineering that uplevel Slack’s ability to leverage data and drive insights
• Set measurable quality and SLA goals for the data engineering team to create a culture of reliability and trust
• Partner with business domain experts, product managers, and engineering teams to build foundational data sets and tools that are trusted, well understood, aligned with business strategy. Partner with teams across Slack on various feature rollouts and initiatives
• Be a champion of the overall strategy for data governance and information architecture of our data warehouse
• Identify, document and promote data engineering standard methodologies throughout Slack
• Mentor other engineers and deeply review code

What you should have

• 7+ years of experience working in data architecture, data modeling, master data management, metadata management
• Able to lead technical architecture discussions and drive technical decisions with data engineers and stakeholders
• A strong grasp of data fundamentals for methods and approaches (logging, columnar, star and snowflake, dimensional modeling)
• Proven track record in scaling and optimizing data warehouses, both logically and technically
• Demonstrated skills with either Python or Java programming language
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with both technical and business partners
• Hands-on experience with Big Data technologies (e.g Hadoop, Hive, Spark) is a big plus
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

Come join us!

Slack has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—we look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. In our work together we aim to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative. If this sounds like a good fit for you, why not say hello?

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