Blue OriginBlue Origin was founded by Jeff Bezos with the vision of enabling a future where millions of people are living and working in space for the benefit of Earth.
At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!
This role is part of Enterprise Technology (ET), where we're developing the digital infrastructure needed to build the road to space, with an emphasis on digital capabilities required to advance Blue Origin's mission.
In this role, you will be responsible for managing the Data Platform Automation team that enables the use of data in decision making across the company from engineering to flight operations and more. This position will be responsible for developing the roadmap and implementing the functionality to allow the operational and analytical data platform to integrate and function across the company.
This position requires a technical leader with the ability to lead technical teams and partner with sister teams and customers. Experience building event-driven systems, deep knowledge of public clouds, serverless compute, Kubernetes, CI/CD, data fabric, metadata management and Spark computing are vital for this role.
We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required! Join our team and help Blue Origin use data to build a road to space!
Responsibilities:Lead and mentor an experienced team of Data Engineers and DevOps Engineers to build, integrate and scale a multi-layer, enterprise-wide data processing and management platform.Passionate about data quality and trust.Build and scale our data lakehouse architecture to work for more users in more ways.Work with practitioners and customers to develop new ways to federate analysis, operational application development and enable a "shift left" philosophy to data ownership.Define and manage incident management, customer communications, RCAs and implement mitigation strategies for platform outages.Conduct make vs buy decisions for new technology and conduct vendor assessments when needed to augment and improve the platform.Be a center of excellence for the data engineering and data ops practices at Blue Origin.Work with Data Governance and Cyber Security to ensure data models are implemented in a secure and ethical manner.Monitor, analyze and report on the performance of the platform, identifying areas for improvement and making data-driven decisions to optimize the platform's performance and return on investment.Qualifications:5+ years of experience writing production-grade code in a modern programming language.3+ years of people management experience.Experience having built part of a modern data lakehouse stack, from design to production code.Experience hiring top talent and driving career growth for early-in-career and senior engineers.The ability to set ambitious goals with measurable results and familiarity with frameworks such as OKRs.A proven track record of delivering complex, large-scale projects.Experience working with product managers to collaboratively set a vision.Excellent written and spoken communication skills.Deep technical knowledge about one or more of Spark, Databricks, Palantir, ML Flow or similar technologies.Clear understanding of the software development lifecycle from reviewing requirements to debugging sophisticated systems in production.Experience maintaining and operating always-on cloud services.Comfortable diving into the code with your team when the situation calls for it.Experience with AWS, data engineering, data modeling and data quality.Experience working with APIs and Cloud based data platform implementations including observability & monitoring, data cataloging, metadata management and security & governance.Ability to lead product roll-out process from conception through final operationalization.Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Compensation Range for WA applicants is $187,266.00-$262,172.40.
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.
Inclusivity Statement: Don't meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Equal Employment Opportunity: Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified, diverse, and dedicated work force.
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