Who We Are As a Company
GoKwik was founded in 2020 with one simple mission, to democratize the shopping experience and increase the GMV realization for e-commerce businesses. The company is backed by Sequoia Capital India, Matrix Partners India, RTP Global, and marquee angels.GoKwik is an e-commerce enablement company focussed predominantly on solving crucial e-commerce issues like boosting conversion rates across the e-commerce funnel and reducing RTO for our partners. It leverages AI/ML technologies to solve hard-hitting problems like RTO to increase CoD conversion rates. GoKwik's 1-click Kwik checkout improves checkout conversion rates ensuring higher GMV realization and reduced marketing CAC.What we do is very unique with zero immediate competition in India today and therefore, building a team of Real Rockstars in their field to fuel this profit making start-up, which is growing at a rapid pace
Summary
The Data engineering manager will be responsible for handling a team of data engineers and closely working with product managers, data scientists, business intelligence teams, and SDEs to design and launch data-driven strategies across the organization.He will also be responsible for designing overall data architecture that drives insights
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You’ll Spend Time On The Following
- Lead a team of data engineers and guide them with the best data strategies in line with data needs.
- Identifying, designing, and implementing process improvements that include building/re-engineering data models, data architectures, pipelines, and data applications
- Continuously look for data optimization processes and oversee data management, governance, security, and analysis
- Hire the best talent, identify the potential of each team member and offer technical guidance, leadership, and advice on planning, designing, and implementing data solutions
- Manage data delivery through high-performing dashboards, visualizations, and reports
- Ensure data quality and security across every product vertical and related areas
- Design, create and launch new data models and pipelines as per needs
- Act as a project manager for data projects, mentor and grow the team by hiring skilled data engineers
- Work towards achieving high performance, operational excellence, accuracy, and reliability of the overall system
- Mentor and grow data warehouse, data modeling, and data visualization team to correctly establish a data-driven culture
- Utilize tools and technologies to create data architecture that supports new data initiatives and is useful in next-gen products
- Ensure test-driven products/pipelines that are easily maintainable and reusable
- Design and build an infrastructure for extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide range of data sources
- Overall build and maintain data foundations that include tools, infrastructure, and pipelines that help the marketing and sales team
- Increase automation and build analytic solutions at scale to serve the business requirements
We’re Excited About You If You Have
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or any alternative computer programming training
- At least 7 years of experience working in Data Engineering field
- Experience managing engineers and guiding a team of engineers through project planning, execution, and quality control stages.
- Strong project management and organizational skills and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced, quickly changing environment.
- Ability to keep up with several projects at once and understand the impact of projects within a larger system.
- Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL), as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
- Experience building data pipelines, architectures, and data sets from raw, loosely structured data.
- Experience building processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management.
- Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
- Experience with relational SQL databases, including Postgres and MySQL.
- Experience with object-oriented design in Python
- Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools
- Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, RDS, Redshift, Glue, S3
- Both verbal and written communication skills
- Efficiency in handling technical issues expertly, producing new design ideas and substitutions where required
- Appreciate and add to a collaborative team effort
Some Important Traits – We look out for a Person in this role
- Independent, resourceful, analytical, and able to solve problems effectively
- Ability to be flexible, agile, and thrive in chaos
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
Our Core Value Cultures
- Merchant 1st
- Innovation
- Talent
The pace of our growth is incredible – if you want to tackle hard and interesting problems
at scale, and create an impact within an entrepreneurial environment, Come join us!