Software Engineer

We are looking for a seasoned technical leader to lead and grow our big data platform team at Fanatics. The big data platform team is responsible for building and managing common data platform components such as big data processing engines, workflow engines, data governance tools, etc. that can be used by other teams in the company. The ideal candidate will have a track record of building and leading data engineering/data platform teams, and driving improvements in data technology and performance.
What Will You Do

• Own the technical roadmap for evolving the data platform to support the future needs of the business
  
• Provide thought leadership and mentoring to the data engineering team on how data should be stored and processed more efficiently and quickly at scale
  
• Maintain the big data platform and drive toward better SLA & cost optimization for the engineering and business teams
  
• Partner closely with Engineering, Data Science, and various business teams to deliver all required data assets and ensure data quality and timeliness
  
• Work with data engineers to create services that can ingest and supply data to and from external sources
  
• Define the processes needed to achieve operational excellence and platform reliability.
  

• 7+ years of software development experience with at least 2+ years of experience leading data engineering teams
  
• Knowledge of common design patterns used in Big Data processing
  
• Proficiency in big data technologies: EMR, Beam, Spark, Flink, Hive, Hadoop, etc.
  
• Experience working with teams in different timezones
  
• Experience of building scalable infrastructure to support batch, micro-batch or stream data processing
  

• You’ve worked with Amazon Web Services.
  
• You’ve worked with Qubole Data Services (QDS)