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The Data & Insights Team

Our focus is on building platforms, capabilities, and insights that are utilized across the organization by sales, marketing, engineering, finance, product, and operations. The ideal candidate will have a strong data and development background with the ability to tie data engineering and analytics initiatives to business impact. 

You will be part of a team that empowers the enterprise with trusted, timely, and actionable insights to drive business transformation and customer value.

What you’ll be doing:

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead, mentor, and coach a team of data and full-stack engineers, cultivating a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, performance reviews, and career development discussions with team members.
• Drive recruiting and hiring efforts to build and maintain a high-performing engineering team.
• Report on team progress, challenges, and technical roadmaps to the U.S. based manager.

Technical Execution & Guidance

• Provide clear technical guidance and direction, ensuring the team adheres to best practices in data engineering, software development, testing, and deployment.
• Act as a hands-on data engineering contributor, directly involved in the design, development, and maintenance of scalable data pipelines and infrastructure.
• Participate in architectural reviews and technical design discussions, making sound and timely technical decisions.
• Ensure the team maintains rigorous standards for code quality, system performance, and reliability across all systems.
• Optimize the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and deployment processes to enhance efficiency and speed of delivery.

Project & Operational Management

• Manage project timelines, resource allocation, and deliverables utilizing project management tracking software (e.g.,Jira).
• Anticipate, identify, and proactively mitigate risks and issues that could impact project timelines or team performance.
• Drive seamless cross-functional collaboration with other engineering teams, QA, and operations to ensure smooth product integration and release.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management and other key stakeholders to define the team's technical roadmap and strategic vision.
• Participate in a weekly on-call rotation, responsible for responding to, troubleshooting, and resolving critical data system incidents and production issues.

What you’ll bring to the role:

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Education: BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• Engineering & Leadership: 8+ years of experience in data engineering and/or software development, including 2+ years in a formal people management role.
• Team Management: Proven ability to lead and mentor a team of 4 or more engineers.

Technical Expertise:

• Data Lifecycle Mastery: Demonstrated understanding of the full lifecycle for data assets, encompassing the building, development, and maintenance of data models, reporting systems, data automation, dashboards, and performance metrics crucial for driving key business decisions.
• Problem Solving: Ability to design and implement robust technical processes to effectively solve business problems.
• Database Skills: Proficiency in Relational Database design, implementation, querying, and reporting (DDL, SQL).
• Data Tools: 3+ years of practical experience with SQL and ETL tools (e.g., Airflow), and working with relational and columnar MPP databases (e.g., Snowflake, Athena, or Redshift).
• Software Development: Technical knowledge with Java-based web application development, including React and Spring Boot.
• Project Management: Proven expertise in using Jira or similar project management and issue-tracking software for managing engineering workflows, sprints, and issues.

Communication & Interpersonal Skills:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills are essential for engaging effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences, alongside strong interpersonal and negotiation abilities.

Extra credit if you have experience in any of the following! 

• Experience in an agile development environment (Scrum, Kanban).
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with the design and delivery of reports and insights that analyze business functions and key operations and performance metrics.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure/platforms  (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and Data Lake development
• Experience with data quality and observability tools (Monte Carlo, Soda, dbt)
• Experience with data cataloging tools (data.world, Alation, Atlan)

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What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

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