Southwest Airlines

Tech Lead Data Engineer - Enterprise Cloud Data Warehouse

Remote Dallas, TX
USD 155k - 173k
Python AWS SQL
Description

Department:

Technology

Our Company Promise


We are committed to provide our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Creativity and innovation are encouraged for improving the effectiveness of Southwest Airlines. Above all, Employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude within the organization that they are expected to share externally with every Southwest Customer.

Job Description:

Job Summary

Southwest Airlines promises to provide Employees with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. The Tech Lead Data Engineer is responsible for one or more project Teams of data engineers, overseeing all stages of design and development for complex, secure, and performant data solutions and models, including design, analysis, coding, testing, and integration of structured and unstructured data. This role will apply an Agile approach to data science and work closely with our Team of analysts, technical product owners, and data scientists to drive real business value. The Tech Lead Data Engineer is a detail-orientated thinker who looks forward to working with a high-performing Team in a dynamic environment.  

 

Additional details: 

  • This role is offered as a remote workplace position, which may require travel for trainings, meetings, conferences, etc. Outside of those required visits, the majority of your working time may be spent in an approved remote location, away from our Corporate Campus. Please note, while this is a remote position, there is limited group of states or localities ineligible for Employees to regularly perform their work off-site. Those ineligible locations are: Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, New Hampshire New York, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming, and Puerto Rico. 

 

Southwest Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We continue to look for opportunities to reflect the communities we serve, and welcome applicants with diverse thoughts, backgrounds, and experiences.  

Responsibilities
  • Lead and develop the big data platform
  • Design, build, implement, document and automate ingestion (real time and batch), enrichment and analytics data pipelines using big data tools and technologies
  • Assemble large, complex sets of data that meet non-functional and functional business requirements
  • Identify, design and implement internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes
  • Build required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources using AWS and SQL technologies
  • Implement Big Data Solutions as a hands-on Technical Lead
  • Process & ingest high volumes of data & transactions with full Life Cycle Implementation(s) of Scalable Big Data & Data Lake solutions
  • Build analytical tools to utilize the data pipeline, providing actionable insight into key business performance metrics including operational efficiency and customer acquisition
  • Work with stakeholders including data, design, product and executive teams and assisting them with data-related technical issues
  • Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to support their data infrastructure needs while assisting with data-related technical issues
  • Generate or adapt equipment and technology to serve user needs
  • May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
  • Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology, including applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services
  • Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models
  • Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
  • Ability to understand the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making
  • Skilled in identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
  • Ability to give full attention to what other people are saying, take time to understand the points being made, ask questions as appropriate, and not interrupt at inappropriate times
  • Ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events)
  • Ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources)
  • Ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations)
  • Ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material
Education
  • Required: High School Diploma or GED
  • Required: Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field; or equivalent formal training

Experience
  • Required: Expert level experience, expansive and far reaching knowledge in:
    • Building and optimizing data sets, ‘big data’ data pipelines and architectures
    • Performing root cause analysis on external and internal processes and data to identify opportunities for improvement and answer questions
    • Excellent analytic skills associated with working on unstructured datasets
    • Building processes that support data transformation, workload management, data structures, dependency and metadata
  • Preferred: Experience with the SAFe model 
  • Preferred: Experience in AWS Cloud (S3, Redshift, Hudi, EMR, Lamdas, Glue, etc.), Python, Strong SQL, ETL/ELT, Data Warehousing, Teradata, etc. 

Licensing/Certification
  • N/A

Physical Abilities
  • Ability to perform work duties from [limited space work station/desk/office area] for extended periods of time
  • Ability to communicate and interact with others in the English language to meet the demands of the job
  • Ability to use a computer and other office productivity tools with sufficient speed and accuracy to meet the demands of the job

Other Qualifications
  • Must maintain a well-groomed appearance per Company appearance standards as described in established guidelines
  • Must be a U.S. citizen or have authorization to work in the United States as defined by the Immigration Reform Act of 1986
  • Must be at least 18 years of age
  • Must be able to comply with Company attendance standards as described in established guidelines

Benefits you’ll love: 

  • Fly for free, as a privilege, on any open seat on all Southwest flights (your eligible dependents too) 
  • Southwest will help fund your Retirement Savings Plan with Company contributions up to 9.3% of your eligible earnings** 
  • Potential for annual ProfitSharing contribution in the Southwest Retirement Savings Plan- when Southwest profits, you profit*** 
  • Competitive health insurance for you and your eligible dependents (including pets) 
  • Southwest offers health plan coverage options that start from the very first day of employment. You will have 30 days to select and enroll in your health plan with coverage retroactively available to your first day of employment. 
  • Explore more Benefits you’ll love: https://careers.southwestair.com/benefits

Pay & Benefits:

Competitive market salary from $155,900 per year to $173,200 per year* depending on qualifications and experience. For eligible Leadership and individual contributor roles, additional bonus opportunities are available and awarded at the discretion of the company.

Benefits you’ll love: 

  • Fly for free, as a privilege, on any open seat on all Southwest flights (your eligible dependents too) 
  • Southwest will help fund your Retirement Savings Plan with Company contributions up to 9.3% of your eligible earnings** 
  • Potential for annual ProfitSharing contribution in the Southwest Retirement Savings Plan- when Southwest profits, you profit*** 
  • Competitive health insurance for you and your eligible dependents (including pets) 
  • Southwest offers health plan coverage options that start from the very first day of employment. You will have 30 days to select and enroll in your health plan with coverage retroactively available to your first day of employment. 
  • Explore more Benefits you’ll love: https://careers.southwestair.com/benefits

*Pay amount does not guarantee employment for any particular period of time.

**401(k) match contributions are subject to the plan’s vesting schedule and applicable IRS limits

***ProfitSharing contributions are subject to plan’s vesting schedule and are made at the discretion of the Company

Southwest Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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