American Red Cross · 11 hours ago
Lead Data Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $150K/yr
10+ years expThe American Red Cross is the world's largest humanitarian network, dedicated to helping millions of lives each year. They are seeking a Lead Data Engineer to modernize and transform their data and reporting capabilities by implementing a new data architecture and technical stack.
Health CareHumanitarianNon ProfitTraining
No H1B
Responsibilities
Collaborate with analytics and business teams to improve data models that feed business intelligence tools, increase data accessibility, and foster data-driven decision making across the organization
Build and implement scalable solutions that align to our data governance standards and architectural roadmap for data integrations, data storage, reporting, and analytic solutions
Design, develop, and test data integration solutions. Write, automate and document unit/integration/functional tests
Manage automated deployments using Git pipelines, ensuring code changes are efficiently version-controlled and deployed
Collaborate with multiple teams to streamline deployment workflows, monitor and troubleshoot pipelines for reliability and performance
Perform data analysis required to troubleshoot data-related issues by building a data quality framework and assist in the resolution of data issues
Serve as tech lead by mentoring less experienced members of the team through code reviews, pair programming and similar hands-on interactions
Qualification
Required
4-year college degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. Prefer academic backgrounds in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical field
10 years of relevant work experience in data engineering, business intelligence or related field
Experience with cloud-based databases, specifically AWS technologies (e.g., Redshift (preferred), RDS, S3, EC2, EKS, Zero ETL)
Advanced experience using SQL queries as well as writing and optimizing SQL queries in a business environment with large-scale, complex datasets
Experience with a variety of database technologies and data warehouse schema design patterns (snowflake and star in particular)
Proficient in object-oriented programming (hands on coding experience in Python is required)
Excellent data analysis and problem-solving skills
Experience with DevOps methodologies and tools (e.g., Git, Artifactory, etc.)
Proficient in use of AI (Gitlab Duo, Gemini, or similar) for coding efficiency
Experience in daily Engineering operations, support, and issue resolution
Experience with Agile software development methodologies
Combination of candidate's education and general experience satisfies requirements so long as the total years equate to description's minimum education and general experience years combined (Management experience cannot be substituted)
Preferred
Experience with Informatica (Power Center, IDMC, IDQ, MFT) or similar software solutions
Apache Airflow, Mage, or similar orchestration service experience
AWS services (S3, Postgres, IAM) experience
Experience with DBT
Benefits
Medical, Dental Vision plans
Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts
PTO: Starting at 19 days a year; based on type of job and tenure
Holidays: 11 paid holidays comprised of six core holidays and five floating holidays
401K with up to 6% match
Paid Family Leave
Employee Assistance
Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term
Service Awards and recognition
Company
American Red Cross
American Red Cross is a humanitarian organization whose purpose is to meet the immediate disaster-caused needs of people and communities.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$43.31MKey Investors
Kia MotorsAvista foundationAmerican Water Charitable Foundation
2025-05-12Grant
2025-04-21Grant· $0.01M
2025-04-17Grant· $0.01M
Leadership Team
Mary J. Barneby
Regional CEO American Red Cross Greater New York
Adrienne Alberts
VP, HR Operations
Recent News
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