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Form of workAbout the Opportunity
At Medifast, our team members are relentless in our mission of driving Lifelong Transformation, One Healthy Habit at a Time®. When you join Medifast, you become part of a dynamic, fast-growing community of highly motivated, like-hearted people who share a passion for promoting health and wellness. Just as OPTAVIA Coaches inspire Clients to reach their personal wellness goals, at Medifast, we inspire each other to bring our best to work each day to further our shared mission. If you want to build a rewarding career that makes lives better on a daily basis, Medifast may be the perfect place for you.
Medifast is looking for a talented Senior Data Engineer to join our team in our exciting pursuit to transform and leverage a data-driven enterprise to impact every customer along their health journey. If you are creative and love building data products, we are innovating with new technologies and seeking curious, passionate, and diverse team members to drive change and impact our business. In this role, our Senior Data Engineer will collaborate across all of Medifast. While this position will exist in our data enterprise, you will partner with many amazing technologists, product managers, and internal and external business partners.
Overview of Position
A Senior Data Engineer is responsible for developing and maintaining data processing software like databases, data structures, or algorithms to process data. Their duties include coordinating with company Executives and other professionals to create unique data infrastructure, running tests on their designs to isolate errors and updating systems to accommodate changes in company needs. They should be comfortable as both a player and a coach in this dynamic work environment, be naturally curious, and have a proven track record of mentoring and influencing senior engineers.
II. Job Responsibilities
- Assembling large, complex sets of data that meet non-functional and functional business requirements
- Leads the creation of software and data architecture and designs. Identifies and implements complex data products with best practices focused on greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes
- Building analytical tools to utilize the data pipeline, providing actionable insight into key business performance metrics including operational efficiency and customer acquisition
- Building required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources using AWS and SQL technologies
- Acts as “Player and Coach” to team of software and Data Engineers – Mentoring, Coaching, and Collaborating
- Lead projects and work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to support their data infrastructure needs while assisting with data-related technical issues
III. Scope
Data engineering needs across business functions. Managing geographically dispersed internal/external team members.
IV. Knowledge, Education, Skills & Abilities
- Bachelor’s Degree in CS, IT, or Engineering
- Expert proficiency writing software to build data structures and algorithms
- In-depth knowledge and experience creating high performance, fault-tolerant data and software architectures
- Proven track record identifying and delivering relational and distributed database performance tuning best practices
- Practitioner experience of the full Data Engineering lifecycle through maintenance and monitoring
- Works independently and serves as aIV subject matter expert in Data Engineer solutions
- Mentors, coaches, and acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience
- 5+ years of experience programming in Python
- 5+ years of experience programming in SQL
- 7+ years in Data Engineering focused on data enrichment, data integration and data warehouse projects
- 5+ years building data analytic pipelines to enable artificial intelligence or machine learning efforts
- 5+ years writing artificial intelligence software in an advanced analytic enterprise
- 5+ years writing software to build complex data pipelines between relational databases, NoSQL databases, API’s, flat files, and external sources
- 4+ years of AWS experience in services like RedShift, Amazon Redshift Spectrum, AWS Glue, AWS DMS, Kafka, etc.
- 1-3 years of Linux experience
- 5+ years of experience with Relational DB / NoSQL experience (PostgreSQL and Amazon Redshift or similar) with specific implementation on AWS cloud
- 5+ yrs experience with different DBMS like Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, etc
- Exposure to open source and proprietary cloud data pipeline tools such as Airflow, Glue and Dataflow for complex problem solving
- Experience with data serialization languages such as JSON, XML, YAML
- Hands-on experience with Transactional and Dimensional data modeling methodologies (eg. Normalization, Star Schema, Snowflake Schema)
- 5+ yrs experience with data mapping, data transformation and handling different data formats – CSV, XML, JSON, JMS
At Medifast, Relationships Are At The Center Of What We Do!
We thrive by elevating our connections with one another as well as with our Coaches & Clients. We believe that everyone has the potential to be OUTSTANDING. The Medifast culture is built on seven core values: integrity, courage, teaming, accountability, empowerment, partnership and diversity. These values aren’t just words on a page – they are celebrated as a core part of the company’s philosophy.
We Lead By…
Mastering Relationships: We build trust, promote collaboration and we are reliable.
Being Innovative: We strive to improve things in our areas of influence; test, refine and expand within the business strategy; and reach beyond real and perceived boundaries.
Simplifying: We are committed to making things measurable, repeatable and scalable; focusing on outcomes not activities; and eliminating complexity to increase focus.
Anticipating: We predict long-term business and organizational needs; challenge assumptions; and expect and prepare for the unexpected.
More About Medifast
About Medifast®:
Medifast (NYSE: MED) is the health and wellness company known for its habit-based and Coach-guided lifestyle solution OPTAVIA®, which provides people with a simple, yet comprehensive approach to help them achieve lasting optimal health and wellbeing. OPTAVIA’s lifestyle plans deliver clinically proven health benefits as well as evidence-based tools, including scientifically developed products and a framework for habit creation reinforced by independent Coaches and Community support. As a physician-founded company with a 40+ year history, Medifast is a leader in the U.S. weight management industry. The company continues to innovate and build upon its scientific and clinical heritage to fulfill its mission of offering the world Lifelong Transformation, One Healthy Habit at a Time®. Medifast was recognized in 2023 by Financial Times as one of The Americas' Fastest Growing Companies and in 2022 as one of America's Best Mid-Sized Companies by Forbes. For more information, visit MedifastInc.com and OPTAVIA.com and follow @Medifast on Twitter.
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