Head of Data Platform

About Sumacpost Labs

Our product started as a side project in 2018 and now has a few hundred paying customers, mostly in Upper Austria. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

What this job is

We're looking for a Head of Data Platform to join our team. This is a remote role. This hire will help replace a set of fragile nightly scripts with tested, monitored pipelines. Remote, open to candidates across Austria. Equipment is provided, including a laptop.

In your first few months you will

• Write data quality tests with dbt or Great Expectations and alert on failures
• Maintain CI for data code and review pull requests
• Process large datasets with Spark on Databricks or EMR
• Respond to pipeline failures and backfill data when needed
• Design table layouts and partitioning for Parquet, Delta Lake or Iceberg
• Ingest data from APIs, SaaS tools and databases with Fivetran, Airbyte or custom Python

Requirements

• Strong Python for data processing
• Working knowledge of AWS, GCP or Azure data services
• Expert SQL, including window functions and query tuning

What you get

• Company pension scheme
• Up to 3 days of home office per week
• Home office equipment

Candidates must be eligible to work in Austria.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Sumacpost Labs GmbH.