Staff Data Engineer

MissionWired is dedicated to creating revolutionary fundraising strategies that have a positive impact on the world. They are seeking a Staff Data Engineer to transform diverse data points into opportunities that support various social causes, including electing Democrats and combating climate change. The role involves designing data pipelines, collaborating with teams, and ensuring an inclusive workspace.

Responsibilities:

• Solving our unique data-lake challenges: transforming and seamlessly normalizing highly varied partner datasets (such as donation data)
• Design robust batch-processing pipelines capable of extracting and loading massive datasets from a variety of internal, external, and public sources
• Developing processes for data mining, data modeling, and data production
• Leveraging modern technology knowledge to champion evolving industry trends, updated design patterns, and engineering excellence across the team
• Autonomously scope, design, and execute complex data projects from day one, turning ambiguous requirements into clear, decisive technical plans
• Developing robust testing and monitoring systems for scheduled processes
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to support their data infrastructure needs; and
• Joining each and every one of your colleagues in creating an inclusive workspace

Requirements:

• 5 years of professional software engineering experience
• Eagerness to mentor and technically guide engineering teams
• Experience guiding technical decision making
• Extensive, hands-on experience building distributed data pipelines using Apache Spark
• Knowledge of how to build and optimize data pipelines, architectures and data sets with the ability to drive additional learning for knowledge gaps
• Experience managing data warehouses and/or data lakes
• Intellectual curiosity to innovate on ways to solve data management issues
• Passion, energy, and excitement for progressive and philanthropic causes
• Experience training or using machine learning models
• Experience in key DevOps/Infrastructure technologies such as AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Docker
• An eagerness to lead and take ownership of complex projects
• Experience mentoring or managing engineers
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment