Teams at Ocient

The Data Engineer II supports customer workload onboarding through requirements gathering, query conversion, schema design, metadata analysis, data loading, workload testing, and performance analysis. The role collaborates with Solutions Architects and engineering teams to prepare pre-pilot workloads, create validation assets and technical documentation, assist with system sizing and timelines, and contribute to GDPR and data rolloff procedures.

Manage end-to-end technical programs and projects, including planning, scope, timelines, resources, risks, budgets, installations, deployments, database workstreams, and customer go-lives. Coordinate cross-functional engineering, product, systems, QA, sales, and operations teams. Maintain project plans, RAID logs, dashboards, and status communications; lead meetings and retrospectives; resolve blockers; manage concurrent projects; and improve project management processes and tools.

Develop and optimize SQL query processing for a distributed database operating across petabytes of data and hundreds of nodes. Responsibilities include parsing, validation, optimization, execution, performance analysis, debugging, code reviews, design discussions, testing, and collaboration with engineering and customer operations teams. The role also supports process improvement, knowledge sharing, and mentoring fellow engineers.