Technical Lead

Summary

Join Community Tech Alliance (CTA) as an Engineering Lead to modernize a critical data system for a key progressive organization. You will architect and lead a new team, rebuilding data infrastructure from the ground up using modern technologies. This high-impact role offers the chance to shape a project, leveraging modern data technologies and engineering practices within a supportive, mission-driven organization. Reporting to the Technical Director, you will be a key technical executor, deeply understanding tech strategy and contributing to infrastructure and software delivery. You will collaborate with the Technical Director, product peers, and client stakeholders. This role requires a technologist with breadth and depth of experience to ensure high-level team execution. CTA is a fully remote organization with synchronous working hours, requiring availability during Eastern Time business hours due to the client's location in Washington, D.C.

Requirements

• Have been on a team that has been accountable for a large, complex project
• Be able to take in multiple perspectives from your team and stakeholders and ensure as many of those perspectives are reflected in the resultant solutions
• Have the ability to think through migrations and understand data flows across multiple systems
• Be able to identify ambiguity and help the team find clarity
• Be receptive to feedback and open to introspection when something goes wrong
• Have been on or worked with product engineering teams
• Value continual learning, and prioritize helping the larger group develop deeper understandings
• Recognize that an environment of continuous improvement only happens when you support psychological safety
• Have extensive experience working with data warehousing, ETL, and processing tools at scale
• Have owned technology decisions and understand the tradeoffs of using maintainable, off-the-shelf solutions versus when to build custom
• Have experience with GCP and BigQuery
• Prefer free open-source solutions and cloud-native solutions over paid commercial ones when possible
• Have built and managed performant data orchestration pipelines and ETL applications
• Have experience managing infrastructure and deployments in cloud environments
• Have experience with continuous integration, delivery systems and pipelines
• Support and advocate for DevOps sensibilities
• Have experience with Python and SQL
• Have experience with Cassandra, Redis, Google BigQuery, and Hadoop
• Have experience with Dagster, Airflow, and dbt
• Have experience with GCP: GCS, GKE, Composer, Cloud Functions, IAM, Pub/Sub, DataProc
• Have experience with Terraform
• Be authorized to work in the U.S. without restriction
• Be located in the US and able to work ET business hours

Responsibilities

• Spearhead the modernization of a critical data system
• Architect and lead a new, cross-functional team
• Rebuild a piece of data infrastructure central to the progressive ecosystem
• Leverage modern data technologies and engineering practices
• Deeply understand tech strategy
• Contribute to the delivery of all infrastructure and software
• Work closely with the Technical Director, product peers, and client stakeholders to synthesize diverse perspectives into a coherent technical strategy
• Ensure the team is executing at the highest level

Preferred Qualifications

Have experience with all technologies listed, but not required

Benefits

• Salary is between $170,000/yr and $190,000/yr, commensurate with experience
• Fully remote organization