Lead Data Engineer

·  Ownership of defining, documenting, and operating overall data strategy, including schema definitions, system contracts, security, compliance, and SLAs
·        Evangelize data strategy among stakeholders such as business users and various data teams through design, documentation, review, and cross team negotiations to support strategic business and technology goals
·   Build and lead a cross cutting team responsible for operational excellence of data platform including change management process, SDLC and CICD
·   Own and implement technical roadmap for continuous improvement of data platform, including tech stack upgrade, cost optimization and compliance requirements.
·   Own and operate automated operational test cases for performance, security, and reliability of data platform
·  Responsible for growing and inspiring a team of engineers through a combination of coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
· Cultivate a healthy, collaborative technology culture that is in line with company values
·  Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
·  Ability to thrive under pressure and function effectively in a fast-paced work environment
·  Exhibit sound judgment and swift decision-making skills
·  Exhibit strong attention to detail and accuracy
·  Ability to collaborate and build consensus with others
·  Love of technology; actively seeks continuing education of current and emerging technologies
· Experience with ingesting, transforming and curating structure and unstructured data set 
· Experience with building analytic solutions applicable to Sales, Finance, Product, Operations, and Marketing organizations in an enterprise
·  Experience implementing operational best practices such as monitoring, alerting, metadata management, data cataloging and data modeling
·   Experience managing, measuring, improving data quality in an OLAP/OLTP 
Communication skills including the ability to identify and communicate data-driven insights
· Experience working in agile development environment
· Experience working with Salesforce and Yardi in real estate domain highly desirable
·  Experience working with cloud providers, both on the IAAS side (AWS, Azure, GCP), and in the data and analytics space (Snowflake, etc). We run our infrastructure in Azure, so experience with that ecosystem is a huge plus.
·   Experience in working in large teams using CI/CD and agile methodologies