Lead Data Engineer

Job Description :

AssetMark is a leading strategic provider of innovative investment and consulting solutions serving independent financial advisors.

We provide investment, relationship, and practice management solutions that advisors use in helping clients achieve wealth, independence, and purpose.

The Job / What You'll Do :

As a Lead Data Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our data infrastructure and ensuring that data flows seamlessly through our organization.

We can consider candidates for this position who are able to accommodate a hybrid work schedule and are close to our Atlanta, GA office.

Responsibilities :

• 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

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :

• 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 & Expertise with concepts like Data Mess, Lake house, Data orchestration, ETL / ELT, Cloud Data warehousing.
• 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 (Azure), 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

Education & Experience :

• 7+ years to 15 years A minimum of 12+ years of experience in IT, majority in information system design. Required and
• 3+ years to 7 years A minimum of 5 years as a Data Architect with progressively increasing responsibility.
• Bachelor's Degree Computer and Information Science Bachelor's in computer science Required
• Master's Degree Computer and Information Science MS preferred

Compensation : The Base Salary range for this position is between $130,000-$140,000.

This information reflects a base salary range that AssetMark reasonably expects to pay for the position based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, education, experience, and actual work location.

This position will also be eligible for additional variable incentive compensation and competitive benefits.

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the US to be considered. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

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Who We Are & What We Offer :

AssetMark's mission is centered around helping financial advisors make a difference in the lives of their clients. To help them do that, we aim to provide advisors with holistic support.

We offer compelling technology that facilitates a better client experience, consulting services that ensure advisors' businesses are running at their best and a comprehensive suite of investment solutions.

AssetMark's platform empowers advisors to provide the highest level of service possible to their clients.

AssetMark's culture is driven by our mission and connected by our values; Heart, Integrity, Excellence and Respect. You will join a team that lives these values every day by doing the best and what is right in all we do and encouraging different ideas for continual success and innovation.

Additionally, we offer a wide range of benefits to meet the needs of our team members and their families.

• Flex Time Off or Paid Time / Sick Time Off
• 401K - 6% Employer Match
• Medical, Dental, Vision - HDHP or PPO
• HSA - Employer contribution (HDHP only)
• Volunteer Time Off
• Career Development / Recognition
• Fitness Reimbursement
• Hybrid Work Schedule

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, AssetMark is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued.