AddressJoin a strong community where all we do is care-for the children and families we serve every day, as well as for our dedicated team members. Our people are our best asset. We listen and we know what you're looking for:
- You want benefits. We support you with a minimum 50% childcare discount, immediate access to benefits, innovative health programs, 401(k) company match, and much more.
- You want balance. We offer flexible schedules that work for you, no nights or weekends, the ability to bring your children to work with you, and paid time off.
- You want opportunity. We invest in your future with ongoing training, tuition reimbursement, credential assistance, and our unique Master Teacher Program.
- You want recognition. We provide a positive, fun workplace where employees are appreciated.
TheLead Data Engineeris responsible for the design, architecture, and roadmap of mission critical systems. They will provide guidance, solutions, standards, and best practices that will drive the strategic vision of the systems and the company. The position will support our work with assessing and understanding data across key business units of Learning Care Group. The role will be responsible for development and documentation of data acquisition, transformation, and storage activities to support analytics initiatives.
Essential Functions/Job Duties, Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Lead hands-on design, prototyping, proof-of-concepts, and development tasks as required in support of current and new projects.
- Drive any Data Engineering needs including requirements gathering, security implementation, data aggregation, data modeling, ETL creation, data cleaning or manipulation, delivery.
- Review the work of or pair program with other Data Engineers with an eye toward enterprise processes, LCG data patterns and procedures, and engineering best practices.
- Act as a liaison between technical teams, functional teams, business functions, and system integrators to drive implementations.
- Work with Solution Architect to develop proposals and cost estimation of designing and implementing data products programs and systems.
- Act as the functional and technical expert in assigned business verticals.
- Conduct technical reviews with project teams prior to design and development activities and ensure solutions are scalable, aligned with internal product roadmaps and meet business requirements.
- Develop and drive the technical roadmap on Data Engineering capabilities and infrastructure to ensure we are operating a best-in-class Data & Analytics function.
- Provide thought leadership and guidance to offshore POD(s) on what we can provide and outline what the requirements are (e.g., timing, data from the client, team skillsets, etc.)
- Contribute to leadership training / upskilling to ensure they are aware of all the most current capabilities.
- Monitoring performance and advising any necessary infrastructure changes.
- Provide mentorship to developers.
- Complete work in a timely and accurate manner while providing exceptional customer service.
Minimum Job Qualifications:
- 8+ Years experience in a Data Engineering role.
- 8+ Years of extensive hands-on experience & knowledge of Microsoft Azure and other cloud platforms
- 5+ years of extensive hands-on experience & knowledge of mobile, web development, and infrastructure as code SDLC
- Bachelor's degree in a related field is required.
Other Skills and Abilities Qualifications:
- Experience with mobile application development utilizing modern technologies and development patterns.
- Solid understanding of API principles and technology (GraphQL / REST)
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database concepts.
- Strong conceptual, strategic thinking, problem solving, technical and analytical skills.
- Leadership and interpersonal skills including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent customer service and follow-up skills with both internal and external customers.
- Capable of working with frequent interruptions and changing priorities.
- Proficient time management, organizational skills, and ability to meet established deadlines.
The job of Lead Data Engineer can be performed in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Learning Care Group is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against an employee or applicant based on race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status or any other protected status under federal, state, or local law.
