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Lead – Data Platform – Database Administrator
Company | Omnidian |
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Location | Seattle, WA, USA |
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Salary | $120125 – $197625 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 5+ years experience as a Data Platform Engineer/DBA
- 2+ years in a technical leadership role
- Experience successfully managing large scale data platform projects
- Proficiency with distributed systems like Spark, Kafka and data lakes
- Strong experience with relational databases like SQL Server or MySQL
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS or Azure
- Understanding of data modeling principles
- Deep understanding of data platform availability, recoverability, security and performance best practices
- Experience implementing and maintaining cost forecasting and containment processes and structures
- Experience implementing data platform monitoring and alerting
- Proficient with SQL
Responsibilities
- Participate in change management process; implement database changes
- Ensure data structures are available, reliable, recoverable, secure and performant
- Establish appropriate monitoring and alerting mechanisms for data platforms, including runbooks
- Establish a transparent intake process for data platform administration requests; complete requests
- Proactively identify improvements in database code or structure to improve performance and/or mitigate costs; make improvements as needed and/or work with stakeholders to prioritize and track the work
- Create and maintain dashboards and alerts to track and forecast data platform costs
- Own successful outcome and positive impact for critical large scale data platform projects including project management and communication
- Mitigate risks and clear blockers
- Collaborate cross functionally to drive initiatives
- Contribute hands-on to the work as needed
- Establish, communicate and maintain a rolling 5 Quarter roadmap for Data Platform
- Drive stakeholder alignment on roadmap and prioritization
- Ensure scalable and cost effective architecture
- Establish and continuously improve Data Platform architecture, processes and standards
- Provide mentoring, coaching and education on Data Platform best practices and standards to stakeholders
- Work with partner teams to establish SLAs for data platform administration requests and system availability; report against SLAs to stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
- Solar Industry experience
- Experience with Databricks
- Experience with RDS
- Experience with IoT Timeseries data
- Experience with Timeseries types of data platforms
- IaC (Infrastructure as Code) experience