Head of Data Engineering

2 weeks ago

New York, United States Courier Newsroom, Inc. Full time
Job DescriptionJob DescriptionSalary: $145k-$150k a year

Who We Are


At COURIER Newsroom, we empower individuals and communities through local reporting that helps people understand and affect the issues impacting their lives. We believe that by investing in the work of local journalists across the country we can positively impact civic participation and build a healthier democracy from the ground up. Through original reporting and human-focused storytelling, we highlight the issues that shape our lives while calling attention to the impacts of policy-making and political action at the local level. We are a rapidly growing team with new ideas on how to change the landscape of this world. Our team is led by women and composed of people that strive to make our workplace an environment where every individual feels like they belong. Our team is composed of smart individuals with multiple intersections of diversity.


 

COURIER Newsroom offers the following:

 

  • Unlimited PTO, 11 paid holidays a year
  • Full suite of health benefits
  • Fully Remote team 
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Prioritization of our people over outcomes, we are a team that wants humans to thrive in this unstable climate


We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our team as the Head of Data Engineering. In this role, you will lead a team of two engineers, collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to drive our data engineering initiatives. As the Head of Data Engineering, you will play a crucial role in building and maintaining data pipelines, managing our data warehouse, and supporting the development of core data models used by reporting analysts.


What You Will Do

  • Designing the Engineering Roadmap for the 2024-2025 years in collaboration with the Head of Analytics 
  • Building, monitoring, and supporting data transformation pipelines using our data warehouse (BigQuery) and data modeling tool (DBT).
  • Managing a team of two engineers
  • Design and document core data models used by reporting analysts.
  • Helping to build reporting tables by creating KPI calculations from source data through to consumption in data visualization tools.
  • Working with technical and non technical stakeholders to make data driven decisions. 
  • Building and maintaining pipelines between various platforms and BigQuery including Sailthru, Google Analytics, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X


Our Tech Stack

  • GCP (Bigquery, Cloud Run, Cloud Build, Google Data Studio)
  • DBT 


You may be a good fit if you have some of the following:


  • Like working in a startup environment where sometimes priorities change rapidly. 
  • Experience Leading a team of brilliant data engineers
  • Compassion when it comes to putting humans first
  • Experience with negating burnout on teams
  • 4+ years of experience in the data field, 2 of them being in data engineering
  • Extensive knowledge of helping engineering teams fix errors on GCP, Cloud Run, Cloud Build.
  • Knowledge of python 
  • Experience with working with Wordpress, both wordpress db tables and maintaining wordpress sites themselves.
  • Maining + improve DBT structures
  • Exposure to managing quick SLA’s on data infrastructure 
  • Experience with plugins in Wordpress 
  • Experience with ESTP integration with list management  and its connection to wordpress


Bonus Points if you:

  • Experience building modular and reusable ETL or ELT pipelines to cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery, Redshift or Snowflake.
  • Have worked with digital media teams
  • Have experience working on the Web development side of the world
  • Past experience with the intricacies  of Social Media data 


We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive company culture, and that does not discriminate against candidates and employees because of their disability, sex, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, veteran status, or any other protected status under the law.


If you have some of these but not all, please apply This list is a starting off point not the whole job. At COURIER, we know jobs change and move over time. We want someone adaptable who can bring new energy to the team.


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