Senior Data Engineer

What You'll Do

• At Omnidian we believe in trust and autonomy. How you create an impact is ultimately up to you. Here is an outline of some of the things you’ll be doing:
Data Engineering (80%)
• Build and maintain data warehouse pipelines via Databricks bronze, silver and gold medallion structures
• Build and maintain data acquisition pipelines which acquire IoT data from aggregator portals, land and transform the data, and make the data available to consumer services
• Use your knowledge of different programming languages to code and update data systems
• Write or contribute to technical specification documents as appropriate
Data Stewardship (15%)
• Create and maintain related data documentation as outlined in Data Governance standards
• Act as an ambassador for data governance standards when working cross functionally
• Participate in code reviews and change management processes
Continuous Improvement (5%)
• Identify, align stakeholders on and implement improvements to our processes, code and/or architecture

Who You Are

• You have strong data engineering skills and experience (experience with IoT data strongly preferred).You are highly analytical and detail-oriented.
• You possess a strong curiosity and a growth mindset.
• You excel in both independent work and team collaboration.
• You are a proactive problem solver with excellent communication skills.
• You show empathy and respect for coworkers, partners, and customers.
• You can give and receive constructive feedback effectively.
• You are adaptable and able to balance quick responses to business needs with strategic, long-term projects.

Experience You’ll Need

• 4+ years experience building and optimizing data sets, ‘big data’ data pipelines, and architectures.
• Experience successfully delivering large scale data engineering projects
• Proficiency with distributed systems like Spark, Kafka and data lakes
• Experience working with IoT data Experience with cloud platforms like AWS or Azure
• Understanding of data modeling principles
• Proficiency with object oriented programming languages such as Python or Kotlin
• Comfortable with SQL
• Proven ability to perform root cause analysis on processes and data to identify improvement opportunities.
• Demonstrated experience with data transformation, workload management, and metadata.

Experience That's a Plus

• Solar Industry experience
• Experience with Databricks, including medallion architecture
• Experience with RDSExperience with Spring Boot
• Experience with asynchronous programming (such as kotlin coroutines)
• Experience with multithreaded programming

Work-life and Culture

• Most of our roles offer the opportunity to work remotely
• If you are in the Seattle area, we offer a vibrant office space in the historic and beautiful Smith Tower, in the heart of Pioneer Square
• We prioritize applicants near one of our employee clusters and offer one or more local gatherings per year
• We provide outstanding benefits including family medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k) administration and $1k match per year and thoughtful paid time off
• We offer 12 weeks of paid parental leave to all FTE employees (birthing and non-birthing) after 1 year, and four-week paid sabbatical leave after four years
• We offer a competitive total compensation package that includes monthly health insurance premiums, bonuses and long-term stock options for every employee
• We love to lift each other up through company-wide slack channels such as #puppiesandpets, #omnidian-wellness, #praiseandbooms and #sustainablefuture
• We have affinity groups to help employees feel seen and supported, such as Rainbow Array, BIPOC, Thriving Survivors, Vets at Omnidian, Black Lights Matter and Neurospicy R Us
• We are a passionate, mission driven team that believes in collaboration, mutual respect and trust. For examples, come Discover our Story!

Grow With Us

• We mentor and invest in our employees and prioritize them for future opportunities. Check out our Instagram reels to see a few career journey examples
• Internal candidates: Check out our advice on Internal Transfer: Job Application Process
• Here are the next roles in this career track:
• Data Engineering Manager
• Director of Data Management
• or
• Director of Software Engineering
• We’re a fast-growing startup, which means we’re constantly reinventing processes, adding new products, and asking people to use all of their skills and talents. That means there’s gonna be a lot of opportunities for you to grow, which also means you will likely be stretched in ways you’ve never experienced in a job before. If you are resilient, determined, and not afraid of a big challenge, come apply.