Data Engineer

Company: Guitar Center
Location: Thousand Oaks
Posted on: February 21, 2021

Job Description:

About Guitar Center Guitar Center embodies the world of creativity and music by encouraging our teammates to find their own individual sound. We strive to craft lifelong musicians and make a difference in the world by enabling musicians and non-musicians alike to experience the almost indescribable happiness that comes from playing an instrument. We believe in putting our customers first, engaging with respect and integrity and fulfilling our mission with passion. The Guitar Center Company operates through several business divisions. Guitar Center is the world's largest retailer of guitars, amplifiers, drums, keyboards, recording, live sound, DJ, and lighting equipment, with more than 290 stores across the United States. 2014 marked the milestone 50th anniversary of the Guitar Center Company as the organization continues to help people make music from coast to coast. The Musician's Friend business offers online sales of a broad selection of music products under the Musician's Friend and Music 123 brand names. The Music & Arts division operates more than 220 stores specializing in band & orchestral instruments for sale and rental, serving teachers, band directors, college professors, and students since 1952. AVDG and GCPro headline the enterprise audio-visual integration business, delivering a best-in-class commercial and residential customer experience. This role services as a problem solving, pragmatic, and innovative individual with Cloud based and on premise Data Warehouse experience to assist with our Cloud DW migration project and to support our existing EDW environment. Utilizing industry leading technologies and modern architectural concepts, this position will provide expertise in multiple areas including data model design, data pipeline architecture, data migration approach, advanced analytics, and data flow design. Responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to the following: Subject matter expert for data warehouse team who can drive data platform/platform activities and manage large scale data management projects. Derive and own data platform assessment, selection and implementation process. Capable to understand business challenges and single handedly design executive level dashboards/visualizations that can provide meaningful insights for business and technology leaders. Deliver high quality data engineering components/services that are agile, robust, scalable, and reusable. Hackathon mindset and willing to take new challenges while coaching/delegating junior engineers. Past experience and capability to migrate data platforms to cloud (AWS, Assure, Oracle preferred) Ability to develop and understand data pipelines and modern ways of automating data pipeline using cloud based and on premise technologies Ability to translate requirements for BI and Reporting to Database design and reporting design Provide support and enhancement to our existing EDW environment, working with the business and IT leads to interpret new project requirement into an agile software development process. Collaborate and communicate effectively with peers at onsite, offshore and other team members to deliver strong and on-time data products. Lead or participate in business meetings to capture requirements, provide status updates and document the requirements Additional duties as assigned.

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