Data Engineer (Remote)

Latin America (Remote)

Begin has an exciting opportunity to join our growing team! This role will be remote in the LatAm region.

Begin is an award-winning educational technology company with a worldwide impact. With products as effective as they are fun, Begin’s family of brands builds critical skills for school and life.

We’re a diverse team of talented people passionate about creating educational content kids love. To consume and understand data rapidly, we can make a dent in the world by bringing high-quality at-home learning to kids globally!

Reporting to our Director of Data Engineering, the Data Engineer will implement the Enterprise Data Warehouse, upholding the best practices pivotal to analytics, data science, and reporting across the organization.

You will:

• Manage the warehouse data models, efficacy, quality of data pipelines, and ETL processes that bring data into the enterprise data warehouse.
• Develop, maintain, and improve tools to enable the team members to consume and understand data rapidly.
• Design and architect scalable data models to build, train, and deploy machine learning models, ETL, and CI/CD with an eye on efficiency.
• Be hands-on with multiple cloud technologies, tools, and programming languages (Python, PySpark, SQL, AWS, GCP, Databricks, etc.)

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the other data engineers, data scientists/analysts, and our product engineering team to translate requirements into deliverable data warehouse models and data pipelines.
• Execute the overall data platform roadmap, including data warehouse and pipeline development, to support the business while optimizing performance and minimizing cost.
• Partner with stakeholders and engineering teams to deliver solutions iteratively and incrementally, leveraging lean and agile principles and fostering an environment of learning and collaboration.
• Ensure that our applications and operational data remain in sync and all integrations are flowing with no data errors.
• Lead root cause analysis, prioritize and manage data quality and remediation, and ensure data integrity to all downstream data systems.
• Be an expert on understanding how data is collected, maintained, and interpreted and be knowledgeable on the official data sources in scope to address use case requirements and business needs.

Must Haves:

• Deep understanding of Apache Spark (Databricks) and expertise in Data Warehousing approaches in the Databricks Lakehouse.
• Experienced in Python/PySpark/Spark SQL and followed/evolved established SDLC, coding best practices, version control, etc.
• Data Warehouse development experience.
• Hands-on experience with data modeling (e.g., Data Vault, Dimensional, etc).
• 3+ years of experience as a data/analytics engineer.
• Excellent communication skills tailored to the target audience.
• Experience in BI tools (i.e., Looker) Nice-to-Haves:
• Graduate degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Understanding of Analytics use cases (e.g., customer 360, marketing channel optimization, etc.).
• Prior experience with AWS Infrastructure (Networking, VPCs etc).
• Prior experience with tools such as Fivetran, Airflow, Metarouter, and dbt etc

We like people who:

• Are open to suggestions, collaborative, and thrive in team environments.
• Love and are willing to learn new technologies and styles.
• Are scrappy and entrepreneurial, able to turn around high-quality projects quickly without depending on a large team.

What you’ll get:

• Begin offers competitive compensation.
• Smart, passionate, and engaged co-workers.
• The chance to have a big impact quickly
• The rare opportunity to make a dent in the universe. We’re bringing a love of reading and learning to children globally!

Begin is a proud equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

At Begin, we are committed to building a diverse team of talented people passionate about creating educational content kids love. We believe in fostering a culture where productivity can flourish, one that is empathetic, respectful, and inclusive. At Begin, we know that diversity, equity, and inclusion aren’t just an idea, a one-time initiative, or phrases to throw into a job post; they’re a daily practice and an ongoing conversation. We survey our team about inclusivity, run training on DEI topics, and have a committee to ensure we continue learning and growing.