Data Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE AND YOUR TEAM:
The Knot Worldwide’s Data team is looking for a highly motivated, highly energetic team-player with a strong analytical mindset to join as a Data Engineer supporting end-to-end data pipelines for our business. This role will be partnering closely with our stakeholders and also with other Data teams to develop data models and data-driven solutions that enable deep analysis and self-service analytics for our Business Domains (Product, Marketing and Revenue).

We see a Data Engineer as a hybrid role that combines mostly data engineering skills but also having the ability to pivot through business intelligence or reporting models. You will be responsible for building end-to-end data pipelines using tools like dbt, Airbyte, Airflow and other modern data stack. This role requires proficiency in SQL, python, data modeling, data transformation, data visualization, but also collaboration skills as they play a crucial role in enabling data-driven decision-making within our organization.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, build, and maintenance of end-to-end scalable data pipelines to collect, process, and analyze large and complex datasets from various sources, including but not only, website visitors behavioral tracking, customer data, transactional data and other business data using tools like Airbyte, Python and dbt to write mainly SQL-based data transformations and ensure the data is clean and ready for analysis
• Apply dimensional modeling techniques to design tables and views that map business processes into an enterprise data model.
• Develop and support complex ETL infrastructure to ensure the delivery of clean and reliable data to the organization
• Automate manual processes to improve efficiency, robustness, and speed.
• Participate in overall architecture and strategy for the deployment of our end-to-end data pipelines.
• Partner with the rest of Data Platform Engineering Teams to provide business logics to design, develop and move data pipelines into production.
• Assist with performance and tuning of our existing models, pipelines and data-applications.
• Foster data governance practices, ensuring data privacy and security, and documenting data pipelines, transformations, and models, contributing to maintaining a data-driven culture within the organization
• Understand our business and processes including how our data pipelines and data apps support the business processes and apply this knowledge to best solve problems.
• Work and communicate with end users / stakeholders across the organization to understand their needs, providing insights, training them on use of the Information Mart models, data-applications or any actionable results in support of decisions.
• Clearly scope, track, execute, and communicate on projects in an Agile environment.

SUCCESSFUL DATA ENGINEER CANDIDATES HAVE:

• Bachelor’s degree (Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or relational functional field)
• 2+ years experience including design, development, data management, administration and support building data models, data pipelines, data warehousing (Snowflake preferred)
• Proficiency in modeling using SQL and dbt, strength in Python
• Understanding of modern data engineering and architecture concepts and practices. This includes knowledge of data warehousing, data pipelines, data marts, and data integration techniques and tools mostly in cloud infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of different business process models and reporting needs and ability to convert requirements into models and end-to-end data pipeline designs.
• Strong organizational and troubleshooting skills with attention to detail, curiosity to detect and explain data anomalies.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex data insights to non-technical stakeholders

At The Knot Worldwide, we believe you are more than a resume and invite you to go for it, take the leap of faith, and apply for this job if it sparks your passion to join TKWW and make a difference!   

WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT YOU:

• You Dream Big. You iterate and experiment to drive innovation.

• You Love Our Users. You keep our global community at the center of everything you do.

• You Do the Right Thing. You strengthen your team through respect, fairness, and inclusion.

• You Hustle Every Day. You favor urgency and own your outcomes. 

• You Win Together. People are at the heart of our success and you play as a team.

WHAT YOU LOVE ABOUT US:

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