Associate Director of Data Engineering - San Diego, United States - The Shipyard

The Shipyard

Verified Company

San Diego, United States

4 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

The Shipyard is a leading, independent agency that builds performance-driven brands audiences can't help but love.

Our ability to align bold creativity with individual consumer motivations lets us do more than hope for brand love - we methodically engineer it throughout the consumer journey.

That's how we activate the synergistic power of brand building and performance marketing.

Engineering Brand Love through the courageous ambitions of our people and our clients.

The agency has significant momentum and is on a roll with new business. Our team continues to expand across four cities (Columbus, Newport Beach, Sacramento, and San Diego) and we're still growing. Come join our team

SUMMARY

We are looking for a smart, experienced, and motivated
Associate Director of Data Engineering to join our
San Diego team.

The
Associate Director of Data Engineering is a managerial position within our Data Development career track.

This role will have management responsibilities starting with 1-2 direct reports and will grow as the team continues to scale.

In addition to serving as a coach and manager for other Data Developers and Engineers, the role requires daily hands-on development execution and technology roadmap leadership.

The
Associate Director of Data Engineering is responsible for leading end-to-end data development, from building data architectures for robust data sets to collecting & modeling data.

You will provide oversight and consultation for data collection and data visualization work. You will work with internal departments to define their analytic requirements and set up their corresponding data environments.

You will be a valued member with the opportunity to shape the way that we collect and share data, influencing processes and efficiency across the agency and its clientele.

At The Shipyard, we know that it's your unique talents, backgrounds, and perspectives that make you who you are, just like our team, who come from various career paths and experiences.

We believe we can't be truly diverse without bringing your most authentic self to the agency.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Lead data needs for clients and internal teams in an agile work environment
Collect data requirements from internal teams to assist in the design of a scalable infrastructure to drive decisionmaking using technology and BI tools
Manage the retrieval, compiling, and formatting of large volumes of data
Set up data environments, in partnership with the Data Visualization team, within business intelligence platforms, ultimately creating advertising reports
Learn new technologies as they evolve, understand their impact on systems, and lead the team in proposed tech stack evolutions
Leadership in implementing technological advancements as well as educating internal and external partners
Collaborate with internal teams and users to understand new opportunities for support
Documentation of data environments and infrastructures developed

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

68 years equivalent work experience in a Data Engineering or similar Data & Analytics Role
Experience in data collection, transformation, development, and/or reporting with optimized outputs for BI tools
Experience developing and optimizing data ingestion processes with tools such as Fivetran, Stitch, and writing custom API scripts
Experience designing, building, and maintaining robust data pipelines (ETL/ELT) using technologies like Postgres, dbt, and Airflow
Experience with AWS services, Kubernetes and Docker
Experience with data modeling / semantic modeling
Experience with data warehousing architecture (Postgres, AWS Redshift)

A testing mindset

Knowledge and experience of CI/CD pipelines and test environments
Proficiency in SQL, Python, and/or Scala/Java
Experience contributing to and influencing tech stack evolutions and infrastructure roadmap
Ability to write code with clean documentation
Strong entrepreneurial drive
Strong verbal and written communication skills and a collaborative, problemsolving mindset
Selfstarting with initiative and passionate about learning the world of data strategy, architecture, processing, and development
Experience balancing multiple deliverables across multiple clients and data sets
Experience with /awareness of cloudbased visualization tools such as Tableau, Looker, or Periscope
Marketing & advertising knowledge (preferred, not required

WHAT YOU'LL GET

The overall target range of base compensation for this role is $137,000 $158,000. Compensation offered will be determined by additional factors such as location and experience
Open PTO
40 hours of paid sick time (annually)
Flexible work hours and remote work
Paid holidays + holiday closure between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day
Companypaid medical, dental, and vision insurance
Life insurance and disability benefits
401k program with employer matching
6 weeks paid parental leave
Employee bon