Senior Data Engineer

Summary

Join The Movement Cooperative (TMC) as a Senior Data Engineer and become a leading contributor to our engineering team. You will implement complex tasks, maintain infrastructure and data pipelines, transform datasets, and build data products for our member organizations. This role requires collaboration, mentorship of junior engineers, and communication with members. You will also contribute to open source communities and help educate members on new data engineering approaches. The ideal candidate possesses 3+ years of relevant experience, deep familiarity with Python and SQL, and advanced understanding of engineering concepts. TMC offers a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and a commitment to a supportive and collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant data engineering experience
• Deep familiarity with Python and SQL
• Comfort with GCP or other cloud platforms
• Advanced understanding of fundamental engineering concepts such as interfaces, fault tolerance, and separation of concerns
• 1+ years of demonstrated leadership with technical teams and/or projects
• Demonstrated ability to review code, pair, and support more junior engineers to deep their knowledge and skill
• Care for the organization’s mission, and future
• Dedication to furthering the reach and impact of TMC members' work
• Superior verbal and written communication, excellent presentation skills, and the ability to articulate complex concepts across varied functional audiences

Responsibilities

• Be a leading contributor to Engineering sprints and infrastructure
• Regularly implement complex stories independently
• Act as major contributor to the overall stability and maintenance of TMC’s infrastructure and data pipelines
• Transform datasets to improve usability for member data analysts
• Build and maintain data products that combine data held by different TMC member organizations for shared, communally beneficial purposes
• Contribute to and design team documentation
• Assist in the design and development of new technologies, patterns, and partnerships
• Evaluate new open source packages, approaches, and/or partnerships to determine if TMC should take advantage
• Draft and support in the execution of transition plans related to new data engineering approaches
• Support the CTO/Director of Engineering/Director of Data & Technology Strategy in training and educating members on new data engineering approaches
• Collaborate and contribute to open source communities, particularly the Parsons open source community
• Be a meaningful contributor to keeping the lights on and interfacing with members
• Communicate in a timely manner with TMC members about bugs, outages, and updates
• Investigate and resolve breakages of TMC-built ETL workflows
• Mentor and support more junior members of the engineering team as well as other staff and members working to deepen their technical expertise
• Provide meaningful feedback through design sessions, pairing, and PR reviews
• Assist members in understanding our systems and building skills through talks, meetings, and other means

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on campaigns, electorally-focused, or advocacy organizations
• Comfort with a fully remote work environment
• Experience with common open source software packages used for ETL/ELT including dbt, Airbyte, Parsons, etc
• Experience contributing to or robust participation in an open source community
• Experience building technical documentation

Benefits

• World-class healthcare, dental and vision benefits
• Retirement
• Unlimited paid vacation and sick days
• Flexible holidays, and all-staff holidays
• Remote virtual office stipends
• Paid parental and adoption family leaves
• Health and wellness benefits