Data Engineering Manager

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, https://www.spec-india.com/services/business-intelligence-services, 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.

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

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  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!