Lead Data Engineer

Syniverse is the world’s most connected company. Whether we’re developing the technology that enables intelligent cars to safely react to traffic changes or freeing travelers to explore by keeping their devices online wherever they go, we believe in leading the world forward. Which is why we work with some of the world’s most recognized brands. Eight of the top 10 banks. Four of the top 5 global technology companies. Over 900 communications providers. And how we’re able to provide our incredible talent with an innovative culture and great benefits.

Who We're Looking For

The Lead Data Engineer is an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems or building new solutions from ground up. This role will work with developers, architects, product managers and data analysts on data initiatives and ensure optimal data delivery with good performance and uptime metrics.

Your behaviors align strongly with our values because ours do.

Some of What You'll Do

Scope of the Role:

• Direct Reports: This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports

Key Responsibilities

• Create, enhance, and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture and implementations.
• Analyze data sets to meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Identify, design, and implement data process: automating processes, optimizing data delivery, etc.
• Build infrastructure and tools to increase data ETL velocity.
• Work with data and analytics experts to implement and enhance analytic product features.
• Provide life cycle support the Operations team for existing products, services, and functionality assigned to the Data Engineering team.
• Review design documents and code to provide constructive feedback.
• Testing and deploying programs and applications.
• Constantly improve product quality, security, and performance.

Experience, Education, and Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics or related field or equivalent work experience.
• 5-8 years of Software Development experience
• 3+ years of experience in Data Engineer fields.

Additional Requirements:

• Familiar with Agile software design processes and methodologies.
• Experience in building and optimizing big data pipelines, architectures, and data sets:
• Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
• Experience with relational SQL databases, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.
• Experience with stream-processing systems: Flink, KSQL, Spark-Streaming, etc.
• Experience with programming languages, such as Java, Scala, Python, etc.
• Experience with cloud data engineering and development, such as AWS, etc.
• Good analytic skills related to working with structured and unstructured datasets.
• Knowledge of message queuing, stream processing and scalable big data stores.
• Ownership/accountability for tasks/projects with on time and quality deliveries.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Teamwork with independent design and development habits.
• Work with a sense of urgency and positive attitude.

Why You Should Join Us

Join us as we write a new chapter, guided by world-class leadership. Come be a part of an exciting and growing organization where we offer a competitive total compensation, flexible/remote work and with a leadership team committed to fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and transparent organizational culture.

At Syniverse connectedness is at the core of our business. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion among our employees is crucial to our success as a global company as we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people who want to help us connect the world.