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Thumbtack's Data Engineering org is split into 3 groups: Core Data Engineering, Data Platform and Embedded Data Engineering. This role is on the Embedded Data Engineering team, which breaks down into multiple business units that data engineers are embedded into. This role would be on the commercial operations side of the house and will work closely with engineers, analysts, data scientists and machine learning engineers to help design and curate data sets originating from internal and third-party sources to meet current and future needs. Over the next year, it will continue to build on its prior successes in building a more cohesive data warehouse while starting to work more deeply upstream to build data best practices into the full software development lifecycle (SDLC).

There are several teams all over Thumbtack with Terabytes of data and unique challenges trying to clean and organize this data to measure their performance. In this role, you will work with Engineers, Data Scientists, Managers, and others to understand their needs, and actively work to build datasets to tackle these challenges.

• Collaboratively refine and evangelize a comprehensive framework for integrating data-thinking into the software development lifecycle for product teams.

• Design, architect, and maintain core operations datasets, data marts, and feature stores that support a blend of mature products and features with a rapidly evolving product line, in partnership with analytics, data science, and machine learning.

• Integrate deeply with our cross functional partners to understand their data needs, and help design datasets with the same engineering rigor as any other software we design.

• Drive data quality and best practices across different business areas.

• Help build the next generation data products at Thumbtack, leveraging AI models for code generation and incorporating agents into our workflows.

• 4+ years of experience designing and building data sets and warehouses.

• Excellent ability to understand the needs of and collaborate with stakeholders in other functions, especially Analytics, and identify opportunities for process improvements across teams.

• Expertise in SQL for analytics/reporting/business intelligence and also for building SQL- and Python-based transforms inside an ETL pipeline, or similar.

• Experience designing, architecting, and maintaining a data warehouse and data marts that seamlessly stitches together data from production databases, clickstream data, and external APIs to serve multiple stakeholders.

• Expertise building the above with a modern data stack based on a cloud-native data warehouse, in our case we use BigQuery, dbt, and Apache Airflow, but a similar stack is fine.

• Experience using AI to generate design plans, code and documentation as well as applying AI-enabled workflows to accelerate development velocity and improve data engineering practices.

• Strong sense of ownership and pride in your work, from ideation and requirements-gathering to project completion and maintenance.

• For candidates living in Ontario and British Columbia, the expected salary range for the role is currently $180,200.00 - $233,200.00.

Actual offered salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as calibrated job level, qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.

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