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Vail Resorts

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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