Senior Data Engineer - The Points Guy
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About the role
Red Ventures is a global portfolio of high-growth companies - spanning several U.S. businesses, a joint venture in the health services industry, and strategic investments in Europe. Their businesses include The Points Guy, Lonely Planet, Bankrate, the Allconnect Platform, RV Home Client Growth, RV Growth & Transformation, Sage Home Loans Corporation, and more. Across the portfolio, Red Ventures businesses deliver seamless digital experiences for consumers, help Fortune 100 clients solve large-scale digital growth challenges, and create world-class experiences and opportunities for employees. Learn more at redventures.com and follow @RedVentures on LinkedIn and Instagram. At Red Ventures, we believe diverse, inclusive teams are better. To help you
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize data pipelines and infrastructure in Databricks and AWS (S3, EC2, Lambda, etc.).
- Build high impact data products - Develop scalable, well tested data models that drive lifetime value, churn, and propensity insights powering RV sites and CRM activations.
- Engineer reliable data pipelines - Implement Python/Spark jobs, dbt transformations, and Orchestration with CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Terraform).
- Partner with analytics and product teams to translate business needs into scalable data models and solutions.
- Implement and promote best practices in data architecture, security, observability, and governance.
- Collaborate with data stakeholders on privacy-safe data sharing solutions, including clean-room environments and other secure data exchange methods.
Requirements
- Cloud & big data platforms - 5+ years designing and developing on AWS and Databricks data lake and lakehouse architectures
- Programming - Expert in SQL, Python/Scala
- Streaming - Hands on with Kafka and Spark Structured Streaming in production
- Data modeling & warehousing - Dimensional, data vault, and real time schemas; SQL performance tuning on data warehouses, including Snowflake and Databricks SQL
- Orchestration & DevOps - dbt, GitHub Actions, Terraform; strong CI/CD experience
- Proven experience building scalable data pipelines and integrations leveraging APIs.
- Data architecture - System design experience for batch and real time
- Domain experience - Prior work in consumer finance, banking or fintech
- Soft skills - Proven ability to translate technical concepts to non technical audiences; excellent written & verbal communication
- Preferred & bonus points:
- Experience modernizing or migrating large-scale data environments to Databricks or AWS.
- Familiarity with data governance, cataloging, and access-control frameworks.
- Proven success influencing technical direction and driving adoption of best practices across teams.
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Additional Information
* This role is not open to visa sponsorship or transfer of visa sponsorship including those on H1-B, F-1, OPT, STEM-OPT, or TN visa, nor is it available to work corp-to-corp. **Must be located in the Eastern or Central Time Zone and be based in the United States. Our The Points Guy team is looking for a Senior Data Engineer . In this role, you'll build data products and create the foundation that powers our machine learning and business analytics efforts. You'll work hand-in-hand with a variety of stakeholders from functional groups across the organization to create end-to-end solutions. Red Ventures is a high-autonomy, high-ownership environment; you'll own your work from idea to production solution. Our data engineering tech stack is primarily AWS and Spark/SparkSQL/Python via Databricks, though we welcome strong applicants from a wide variety of technical backgrounds. We believe that diverse, inclusive teams are better teams. Think of the bullets below as guidelines: if you only partially meet the qualifications on this posting, we encourage you to apply anyway! For The Points Guy website click here . Curious how The Points Guy fits into Red Ventures? Click here .
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