Lead, Data Platform

Position Overview

• Location Type: [Not Specified]
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: [Not Specified]

Omnidian, Inc. is a fast-growing Series C tech-enabled service company revolutionizing performance assurance for the distributed solar and energy storage industries. Omnidian is building a more sustainable future for the planet through our passionate teams, our innovative technology, and by creating an amazing customer experience. We are headquartered in Seattle, WA.

We are looking for an experienced Data Platform Lead to own the availability, reliability, recoverability, security, and performance of our data platforms. You will be responsible for architecting, implementing, managing, and optimizing robust data platforms. You will be responsible for cost transparency, containment, and forecasting. You will own, enhance, and update Data Platform processes and standards, understand company needs, and own and execute critical projects on our Data Platform roadmap.

Our IoT timeseries data is a critical component of our service. You will be responsible for understanding the business and technical requirements for this data and for owning the data platform architecture solutions, working closely with our Data Acquisition team for a cohesive architecture.

This role sits within our Engineering department and will report directly to our Director of Data Management and Information Security. Preference to where some of this team is located in Pittsburgh, Seattle, Upstate NY, Denver area.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on Data Platform Administration (33%)
  • Participate in the change management process; implement database changes.
  • Ensure data structures are available, reliable, recoverable, secure, and performant.
  • Establish appropriate monitoring and alerting mechanisms for data platforms, including runbooks.
  • Establish a transparent intake process for data platform administration requests; complete requests.
  • Proactively identify improvements in database code or structure to improve performance and/or mitigate costs; make improvements as needed and/or work with stakeholders to prioritize and track the work.
  • Create and maintain dashboards and alerts to track and forecast data platform costs.
• Own and Lead Critical Data Platform Projects (33%)
  • Own successful outcomes and positive impact for critical large-scale data platform projects, including project management and communication.
  • Mitigate risks and clear blockers.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to drive initiatives.
  • Contribute hands-on to the work as needed.
• Own the Data Platform Roadmap and Strategy (33%)
  • Establish, communicate, and maintain a rolling 5-quarter roadmap for the Data Platform.
  • Drive stakeholder alignment on roadmap and prioritization.
  • Ensure scalable and cost-effective architecture.
  • Establish and continuously improve Data Platform architecture, processes, and standards.
  • Provide mentoring, coaching, and education on Data Platform best practices and standards to stakeholders.
  • Work with partner teams to establish SLAs for data platform administration requests and system availability; report against SLAs to stakeholders.

Requirements

• Data Architecture Experience: Comfortable with data architecture and patterns for both structured and unstructured data. Experience owning and maintaining distributed big data platforms such as Databricks or Hadoop, as well as relational databases such as MySQL.
• Data Engineering Expertise: Strong working knowledge of Data Engineering processes and standards.
• Leadership Abilities: Possess strong leadership skills, with the ability to provide mentoring cross-functionally.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Value Creation: Understand business needs, users, technology.

Company Information

Omnidian, Inc. is a fast-growing Series C tech-enabled service company revolutionizing performance assurance for the distributed solar and energy storage industries. Omnidian is building a more sustainable future for the planet through our passionate teams, our innovative technology, and by creating an amazing customer experience. We are headquartered in Seattle, WA.