Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Forterra is a leading provider of autonomous systems for ground-based movement, focusing on building technology that protects front-line soldiers and enables civilian workers. They are seeking an experienced Staff Data Engineer to support the development of data pipelines and the data platform, playing a crucial role in building the data foundation for their autonomy products.
Responsibilities
- Build and orchestrate pipelines for ingestion and transformation of data collected from Forterra's vehicles and internal systems
- Design, build, and maintain our enterprise data warehouse on Snowflake, ensuring optimal performance, cost-efficiency, and scalability
- Gather requirements from both technical and non-technical stakeholders to deliver end-to-end data products
- Support user and role provisioning, implement RBAC policies, support audits and conduct user access reviews
- Establish data modeling standards and data governance frameworks, creating dimension and fact tables that serve analytics, machine learning, and reporting use cases
- Implement data quality monitoring, anomaly detection, tests, and alerting
- Document definitions, metrics, and KPIs and assist in the development of a data dictionary
Skills
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or analytics engineering roles
- Expert SQL knowledge and Python proficiency
- Experience with the modern data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, etc), data transformation, and orchestration tools (dbt, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect)
- Experience with cloud infrastructure
- Understanding of software engineering best practices including version control, CI/CD pipelines, code review processes, and infrastructure-as-code
- Understanding of MLOps and experience with implementation of AI/ML technologies
- Bachelor's Degree STEM field or Related degree
- Big Data/IoT Data experience
- Experience working with unstructured data
- Experience working with GovCloud and FedRamp
Benefits
- Premium Healthcare Benefits: Three plan options, including an HSA-eligible plan, with Forterra covering 80% of the plan premium for you and your dependents.
- Basic Life/AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance plans 100% covered by Forterra, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
- Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a winter break in December.
- Competitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year.
- A minimum of 7 weeks fully paid parental leave for birth/adoption.
- A $9k annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend.
- Fully stocked beverage refrigerators with all the Celsius your little heart desires.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan, including traditional, Roth 401(k), and after-tax deferral with company match up to 4%.
Company Overview
Forterra delivers autonomous mission systems for defense. It was founded in 2002, and is headquartered in Clarksburg, Maryland, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.forterra.com.