Data Engineer

Company Description

Take a seat on the Xplor rocketship and join us as a Data Engineer to help people succeed across the world.

We’re a global team of builders, listeners and problem-solvers who are relentlessly focused on making life simple, so our customers can get back to growing their business, engaging consumers and doing what they love.

Job Description

About the opportunity

At Xplor, the Central Technology Team has one main purpose: to enable and complement the business strategies and goals while solving real problems for our customers and users.

We have dozens of applications in our everyday-life verticals that all have their technology uniqueness and their individual purpose. We also use some of the latest technology in Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Containers and are constantly looking to find innovative new ways to meet the challenges of running a unique global business.

As a member of the global data engineering team, reporting to the Data and Analytics Manager (US), this role has a primary focus on contributing to our enterprise data warehousing and reporting deliverables.

Responsibilities include designing, creating, and maintaining business intelligence assets and reports that drive innovation, client value and business efficiency.

This position will be working across our largest business units and experience with multi-terabyte database systems is required. Assisting primarily through maintaining and implementing an array of data synchronization efforts across numerous systems both on-premises and in the cloud. You will coordinate with our data architects, product management, and IT management to ensure that our data pipelines for both internal operations and customer reporting are accurate, scalable, and secure.

The primary tasks, duties, and responsibilities are:

• Building our enterprise data movement capability for ingestion to snowflake.
• ELT development primarily with a mixture of SQL and Python.
• Contribute to cloud migration and ensure system uptime for data warehouse products.
• Centralising orchestration of scheduled data pipelines and automated processes.

• Participate in Agile work planning, testing, and quality assurance.

Qualifications

Essential Job Skills

• Proven experience working at enterprise scale with multi-terabyte database systems.
• Security focused development practices, particularly with egress of On-Prem data to cloud.
• Expertise with Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server Integration Services.
• Experience in automation using coding/scripting languages such as Python and PowerShell.
• Proficiency with source control, CI/CD practices and pipeline deployment methods.
• Strong prioritisation, time management and organisational skills

Technical Skills

• Proficiency with Python is a must.
• Experienced level knowledge – Business Intelligence/reporting tools including Microsoft SQL, SRSS, SSIS, SSAS, Power BI, DAX.
• Adept at designing and implementing effective data models and Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes slowly changing dimensions for transforming and loading data into the data warehouse.
• Experience incorporating data from varied relational systems (e.g. MySQL, Postgres etc), flat-file, API, and No-SQL sources.
• Understanding of data governance practices, data lineage, and data quality management to ensure accurate, consistent, and reliable data.
• Prior use of orchestration tools such as Prefect or Dagster would be an advantage.
• Familiarity with cloud base tooling – Snowflake, DBT or Coalesce, Fivetran.
• Containerisation experience such as Docker is also advantageous.

Education/Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Preferred Qualifications include:
  • Expertise in parallel processing warehouses (Snowflake/Redshift),
  • high-frequency differential ETL processes,
  • and Agile development methodology.

At Xplor, we believe that the best innovation and ideas happen at the intersection of differences – people of different cultures, generations, disciplines, and lived experiences. So even if you think you don’t quite tick all the boxes, we still encourage you to apply.

Additional Information

Ready to apply?

To start your application, please submit your resume and we will be in touch as soon as we can. Please include the word “moonshot” at the top of your message to the Hiring Manager so that we know you took the time to read our job ad.

We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards (LinkedIn, Naukri, Indeed, etc) only. Please don’t send your application via email. They will not be forwarded. 

More about us 

Xplor Technologies is a global platform integrating SaaS solutions, embedded payments, and Commerce Accelerating Technologies to help businesses succeed. Xplor provides enterprise-grade SaaS solutions for businesses in “everyday life” verticals: Childcare & Education; Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global cloud-based payment processing platform.

Xplor Technologies serves over 78,000 customers that processed over $36 billion in payments, operating across 20 markets in 2022. 

Good to know

To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorised to work in the location (country) you’re applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time. 

To learn more about us and our products, please visit www.xplortechnologies.com/us/careers. 

We also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process www.xplortechnologies.com/us/recruitment-faqs.

Xplor is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and creating an inclusive work environment. We provide equal opportunities to all our employees and to all eligible applicants for employment in our company. We do not unfairly discriminate on any ground, including race, religion, color, ancestry, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or any other category protected by applicable law.

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