About DAT

DAT is an award-winning employer of choice and a next-generation SaaS technology company that has been at the leading edge of innovation in transportation supply chain logistics for 44 years. We continue to transform the industry year over year, by deploying a suite of software solutions to millions of customers every day - customers who depend on DAT for the most relevant data and most accurate insights to help them make smarter business decisions and run their companies more profitably. We operate the largest marketplace of its kind in North America, with 227 million freight posts in 2021, and a database of $126 billion of annual global shipment market transaction data. Our headquarters are in Denver, CO, with additional offices in Missouri, Oregon, Texas, and Bangalore, India. For additional information, see www.DAT.com/company.

The Opportunity

DAT is looking for a Data Architect to join our Engineering team in Denver, CO or Beaverton, OR.

What You’ll Do

• Supporting us with evolving our data platform architecture
• Defining standard working methods and processes to be respected by all chapter members, e.g., best practices in developing data pipelines, data architectures, testing, and deploying changes, documentation standards
• Enabling quick and accurate decision-making within the teams by facilitating discussions
• Creating and coordinating communities
• Setting and spreading best practices for Data Engineering across the organization
• Providing solutions for complex business problems, enabling insights that can empower better decision-making
• Collaborating with senior leadership on strategic data projects
• Develops strong working relationships with other leaders in the information technology organization by providing continuous assistance and thought leadership.
• Educates, coaches, and mentors on technical, interpersonal, and team dynamics, company policy & procedures, and other topics.
• Takes an active role in fostering a culture of learning and excellence.

The Skills and Experience You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
• 7+ years of relevant engineering experience
• You are a strong solution architect having worked with Kafka, the Hadoop Ecosystem (Hadoop, Flink, Kafka, Spark, ElasticSearch), with cloud based services (AWS S3, EMR, Glue) and with containers (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS).
• You bring hands-on experience in creating and managing an enterprise-scale Data Platform, while setting best practices for security, privacy, monitoring & alerting, and CI/CD (ideally, e.g., AWS, Prometheus, AlertManager, Grafana, Concourse, Airflow, Tableau, Alation, Oracle, Snowflake)
• Coached and mentored team members in previous roles
• Leverage data to prioritize your work and to influence others
• Managed senior stakeholders in complex organizations and in changing environments
• Willing to implement change and improvements when seeing an opportunity
• Experience building and operating large scale, distributed systems
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development and technology management life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations; Agile a plus.
• Previous hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, such as AWS or Azure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Passion for people management and mentorship.
• Proven track record of building and managing high performing engineering teams.
• Interest in continuous learning and improvement

(Colorado only) In compliance with Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The maximum compensation for this role can vary significantly depending on your job-related skills and experience. DAT considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education and training, core skills, internal equity, and market and business elements when extending an offer.

DAT embraces the value of a diverse workforce, and believes it is a core strength of our company that we encourage those values in every DAT employee, at every level of our organization, regardless of tenure or rank. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)