Headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, Vail Resorts is the world’s leading mountain resort vacation and luxury excursions company. Founded in 1950, Vail Resor
Senior Data Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
$107K - $140K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Data Engineer
Vail Resorts
Role Description We are looking for a curious, driven, and innovative Senior Data Engineer who proactively takes initiative to solve complex problems and lead the development of data assets that elevate our marketing analytics capabilities. - Architect & Scale Data Pipelines: - Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable ingestion pipelines from a diverse suite of marketing sources (APIs, SFTPs, webhooks etc.), ensuring high availability and data integrity. - Optimize Core Data Assets: - Develop, maintain, and tune high-performance dbt models to transform raw marketing data into production-ready analytic assets for cross-functional reporting. - Drive Infrastructure Efficiency: - Audit and refactor existing data infrastructure to uncover cost efficiencies and optimize compute performance across marketing data sets. - Accelerate AI Readiness: - Develop and scale semantic layers and data models specifically tailored to fuel downstream AI use cases and predictive marketing analytics. - Champion Governance & Literacy: - Author comprehensive data documentation, lineage maps, and artifacts to elevate data literacy and foster a culture of self-service across the organization. - Lead Cross-Functional Partnerships: - Act as the primary engineering partner to the Marketing Analytics team, translating complex business requirements into high-impact, performant data products. - Bridge IT & Engineering: - Collaborate closely with IT and core Data Engineering teams to align architectural standards, bridge capability gaps, and foster a cohesive, modern data ecosystem. - Serve as a Subject Matter Expert: - Act as a key technical resource for data engineering best practices, scalable architectural design, and marketing data usage. - Drive Technical Excellence & Mentorship: - Act as a technical mentor to elevate the team's engineering capabilities, driving continuous skill development and championing modern best practices across analytics and engineering cohorts. Qualifications - B.S. degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering). - Proven ability to write clean, modular, testable, and maintainable code. - Strong in Python and SQL for building data pipelines, automation, model integrations, analytical workflows, and production services. - Hands-on experience managing and processing large-scale digital marketing datasets efficiently across cloud infrastructure. - Experience implementing Medallion architecture and a solid understanding of data warehouse design and schema structuring. - Expert-level knowledge of dbt (Core) for modular data modeling. - Proficient with Git workflows and integrating pipelines into automated CI/CD deployment workflows. Requirements - Intellectual curiosity and a desire to deepen knowledge and continue learning. - Take responsibility to proactively advance projects and contribute to the organization. - Initiative to understand the full scope of business problems and propose solutions. - Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences. - Work effectively cross-functionally with data scientists, data engineers, analysts, application engineers, product partners, and business stakeholders. Benefits - Ski/Mountain Perks: Free passes for employees, employee discounted lift tickets for friends and family, and free ski lessons. - Employee discounts on lodging, food, gear, and mountain shuttles. - 401(k) Retirement Plan. - Employee Assistance Program. - Excellent training and professional development. - Health Insurance; Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance plans (for eligible seasonal employees after working 500 hours). - Free ski passes for dependents. - Critical Illness and Accident plans. - Remote work options from various U.S. states and British Columbia.
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