Published: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:50:42 GMT
Position: Senior Data Engineer
Company: SMG
Location: Remote (fully remote)
Salary: Competitive
Why work at SMG?
SMG is a leading experience management (XM) provider, serving restaurants, retailers, and other multi-location consumer businesses by revolutionizing how brands utilize customer and employee insights. With a rich 30-year history, SMG combines an enterprise software platform with professional services to help brands increase revenue, reduce detractors, and drive operational efficiencies. Additionally, our 2024 acquisition of Bulbshare allows us to assist the world’s top organizations in growing through real-time customer collaboration. Our mobile-first customer communities span over 30 markets worldwide, enabling clients to efficiently gather insights, ideate, and promote advocacy.
We offer our talent a work hard, have fun environment. Our teams consist of intelligent, talented, and curious individuals who thrive on challenges. Our culture is values-driven, promoting connection, collaboration, and co-creation. As a remote-first company, we provide unlimited PTO, company-provided technology, and sick pay. Our diverse, experienced, and friendly team will welcome, support, and challenge you. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, celebrating diversity and fostering an inclusive work environment where all employees feel a sense of belonging, have their unique needs respected and met, have equal access to opportunities and resources, and are fully engaged in contributing to the company’s success.
Position Overview:
As a Senior Data Engineer at SMG, you will lead by example in data engineering practices, utilizing your expertise in various technologies such as Python, SQL, dbt, Snowflake, Airflow, Kafka, and other relevant tools in the data engineering domain. You will inspire and mentor data engineering teams, fostering a growth mindset and a collaborative environment. Additionally, you will lead initiatives to rebuild the team and instill a culture of continuous learning and improvement. In collaboration with leadership, you will shape the company’s vision for data engineering and provide valuable insights and guidance on technological strategies and opportunities. You will also drive efforts to refactor and rebuild our aging data infrastructure, prioritizing scalability, reliability, and maintainability. As a champion of modern data engineering practices, you will advocate for tidy code practices, lead code review processes, and utilize modern code tooling to ensure high-quality software delivery. You will collaborate cross-functionally with other teams to solve complex technical challenges in data engineering and drive innovation across the organization. As a leader of data engineering teams, you will manage timelines, resources, and risks effectively to deliver significant initiatives successfully.
Requirements:
– Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
– Extensive experience (4+ years) in data engineering, with a focus on leading teams and initiatives to deliver value
– Proven expertise in various data engineering technologies, including but not limited to SQL, Python, dbt, Snowflake, Apache Spark, Kafka, Airflow, and other relevant tools
– Strong understanding of modern data engineering practices, such as data modeling, ETL processes, data quality assurance, and data pipeline orchestration
– Experience with data engineering tooling and platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake is highly desirable
– Excellent leadership and communication skills, with a record of leading collaborative and high-performing data engineering teams
– Ability to learn and adapt quickly to innovative data technologies
– Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with a growth mindset and a commitment to continuous learning
– Demonstrated ability to drive change and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization
About SMG:
To learn more about our customer, employee, and brand experience management (XM) solutions, visit www.smg.com.
Experience Requirements:
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