Senior Analytics Engineer - Data Ops

Job Description:

At Pluralsight, we are an established team of data practitioners supporting decision makers across the company. We use data to improve outcomes for our colleagues, our leadership, our customers, and everyone in the Pluralsight community. In addition, we are a team that values and encourages diverse ideas, backgrounds, and strengths.

In this role, you will need to use your knowledge of data pipeline orchestration, standard methodologies for data warehouse performance, data migration strategies, and analytics architecture to function collaboratively within a team environment. We are looking for someone who will apply software engineering standard methodologies to analytics code via the utilization of version control, testing and validation processes, and continuous integration.

• Eager to dive in to data sources to understand availability, utility, and integrity of our data

• Passionate about data, analytics and automation with experience cleaning and modeling large quantities of raw, diverse, and disorganized data

• Creator of reproducible and extensible work

• Appreciate being on a team that values and encourages diverse ideas, backgrounds, and strengths

• Carefully consider the ethical and security implications of choices you make when using data, as well as the impact of your work on customers and colleagues

• Respect and invite fair feedback while promoting the identification and open discussion of errors, risks, and unintended consequences

• Deeply understand existing and new technology trends, and you work with partners to review and recommend innovative and efficient solutions

• Building and maintaining production data pipelines for analytics across the business

• Developing tooling and solutions for data practitioners across the company using a deep understanding of their objectives and problems

• Improving observability and maintainability in our data environment, including uptime, usage, data quality, and data freshness

• Committed to improving processes throughout the data environment via automation

• Creating, implementing, and improving standards for production-worthy data flows

• Create and maintain documentation on processes, policies, application configuration and help-related materials as applications are developed

• 5+ years of taking a multidisciplinary approach to data operations: we emphasize picking the right tool for the job

• 5+ years of experience with cloud data warehousing technologies (Snowflake preferred) and data modeling standard methodologies.

• 3+ years of experience automating a data platform with scripting tools (e.g. Powershell, Bash, Python), preferably cross platform development

• 3+ years of experience with advanced orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow, Prefect, Dagster)

• 3+ years of experience with tools for ingesting data (e.g. Fivetran, Stitch, Python) and integrating data with other systems (e.g. Census, Hightouch)

• 5+ years of experience developing, operating and maintaining data pipelines utilizing dbt

• Experience building CI\CD pipelines that automate IaC and artifact deployment using tools such as Terraform and Github Actions

• Experience managing systems containing sophisticated dependency management and orchestration requirements

• Effective communication skills with technical team members as well as business partners

• Ability to tackle problems independently and prioritize work based on the anticipated business value

Bring yourself. Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age or protected veteran status. Pluralsight will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please visit the to learn how to request an accommodation.

For more information on Pluralsight's commitment to building a more diverse and inclusive workforce please review our most recent Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging report.

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