Ajah is hiring a
Senior Data Engineer, Remote - Worldwide

Summary

The job is for a Senior Data Engineer on a 12-month contract to cover maternity leave at GivingTuesday, starting December 2024. The role is remote and managed by DARO but embedded in GivingTuesday’s Data Team.

Requirements

• Experience building modular and reusable ETL/ELT pipelines
• Experience with a cloud platform (we use AWS) and cloud data warehouse technologies (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, or similar)
• Hands-on experience with data pipeline tools (Airflow, dbt, etc.)
• Strong Python programming skills

Responsibilities

• Participate in a technical leadership role, giving input into how we architect and build our data infrastructure, data pipelines and processes
• Create and maintain architecture and systems documentation
• Update data pipelines to automate recurrent operations on core datasets for research projects
• Build and maintain data pipelines to efficiently ingest data from multiple sources
• Oversee any necessary improvements to our data processing and analysis infrastructure
• Plan and execute system expansion as needed to support the growth of the GivingTuesday Data Commons’ analytic needs
• Mentor, and manage a small team of Data Engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience writing and optimizing SQL queries
• Working knowledge of BI tools (e.g. Looker, Tableau, etc.)
• An ability to multitask and adapt quickly to shifting priorities

Benefits

• Generous vacation time policy
• Supplemental Health and Dental benefits (we will work with you to find a local equivalent for non-Canadian applicants)