Senior Data Engineer

What You'll Do

The Global Analytics & Insights (GAI) team is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to lead our build of the data infrastructure for Avalara's core data assets- empowering us with accurate, data to lead data backed decisions. As A Senior Data Engineer, you will help architect, implement, and maintain our data infrastructure using Snowflake, dbt (Data Build Tool), Python, Terraform, and Airflow. You will immerse yourself in our financial, marketing, and sales data to become an expert of Avalara's domain. You will have deep SQL experience, an understanding of modern data stacks and technology, a desire to build things the right way using modern software principles, and experience with data and all things data related.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

• You will architect repeatable, reusable solutions to keep our technology stack DRY
• Conduct technical and architecture reviews with engineers, ensuring all contributions meet quality expectations
• You will develop scalable, reliable, and efficient data pipelines using dbt, Python, or other ELT tools
• Implement and maintain scalable data orchestration and transformation, ensuring data accuracy, consistency
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand complex requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Build scalable, complex dbt models
• Demonstrate ownership of complex projects and calculations of core financial metrics and processes
• Work with Data Engineering teams to define and maintain scalable data pipelines.
• Promote automation and optimization of reporting processes to improve efficiency.
• You will be reporting to Senior Manager

What You'll Need to be Successful

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or related field
• 6+ years experience in data engineering field, with advanced SQL knowledge
• 4+ years of working with Git, and demonstrated experience collaborating with other engineers across repositories
• 4+ years of working with Snowflake
• 3+ years working with dbt (dbt core)
• 3+ years working with Infrastructure as Code Terraform
• 3+ years working with CI CD, and demonstrated ability to build and operate pipelines
• AWS Certified
• Terraform Certified
• Experience working with complex Salesforce data
• Snowflake, dbt certified