FlightAware- Business Intelligence Engineer 2 (Remote)

Date Posted:

2024-08-13

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HTX99: Field Office - TX Remote Location, Remote City, TX, 73301 USA

Position Role Type:

Remote

Are you passionate about using data to drive decisions that shape the future of aviation? At FlightAware, your expertise could be the key to unlocking groundbreaking insights.

FlightAware, part of the Connected Aviation Solutions (CAS) unit of Collins Aerospace, has built the world's leading aviation software platform, processing over 180+ million incoming messages an hour from over 30,000 individual data feeds—2 terabytes a day and growing! We provide the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flight-tracking service and are proud to have built a wide variety of successful products on this foundation that have become central to the aviation industry at large.

We are looking for a Business Intelligence Engineer II to join our Data, Applications, and Platforms Engineering (DAPS Engineering) team at FlightAware. In this role, you will bridge the gap between data and decision-making, helping our organization unlock its full potential. You will leverage your expertise in data analysis, modeling, and visualization to uncover hidden patterns and trends, providing insights that give FlightAware a competitive edge.

As a key stakeholder, you will play an integral role in shaping scalable data infrastructure, developing self-service analytics tools, and utilizing data visualizations to unlock valuable insights. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will collaborate to build solutions that drive business growth and innovation.

As a FlightAware Engineer, you’ll be part of a highly collaborative, ambitious, and future-reaching organization. We attract engineers with a passion for aviation and data. Our team champions intellectual curiosity, openness, and industry-leading technical innovation. We invest in building excellent internal tooling and engineering support in order to create a productive and highly effective team that anticipates the future and leads by example. You’ll get to learn alongside talented senior engineers and share your own expertise.

Regardless of role, we expect excellent interpersonal and communication skills across all hires at FlightAware. We look for candidates who will thrive here, meaning they demonstrate clear communication, embrace open feedback, trust their colleagues, and are driven to execute, deliver, and complete projects independently and efficiently.

*Please ensure the role type is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role.

Remote: Employees who are working in Remote roles* will work primarily offsite (from home). An employee may be expected to travel to the site location as needed.

• Position is remote; however, if you live within a reasonable commute of a Collins site with other colleagues you interact with, your manager will discuss whether there is a degree of onsite presence associated with this role.

What You Will Do:

• Develop and maintain data products that enable faster decision-making, data democratization, and self-service functionality.

• Own the end to end delivery of reporting products, from gathering business requirements to designing and maintaining dashboards that drive key decisions.

• Perform analyses on large datasets to explain trends and support machine learning model performance.

• Enhance the data visualization repository using tools like Tableau, Power BI, Looker, or Quicksight to create meaningful and scalable visualizations.

• Utilize GIS tools to incorporate geospatial data into visualizations and analyses, providing deeper insights into aviation trends and patterns.

• Partner with other engineering teams to extract, transform, and load data from a variety of sources.

• Recognize, adopt, and communicate best practices in data reporting, analysis, and visualization to driving operational excellence.

• Manage multiple projects and proactively communicate status updates, shifts in priorities, and objectives to stakeholders.

• Document technical work using industry-standard tools like Jira and Confluence.

• Monitor existing metrics, propose new ones, and work across the organization to deliver actionable intelligence.

• Engage collaboratively translating data and analytics requirements into data visualization dashboards and present those data insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ensure data integrity, accuracy, and consistency through data validation, cleansing, and quality con