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%.

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