Data Engineer, Bluelabs
$85k
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Data science & analytics firm
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Data science & analytics firm
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$85k
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
BlueLabs' mission is to help organizations improve the efficacy of their communications with individuals, fine-tune their strategy, identify opportunities, and measure outcomes.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience as a contributor to technical projects, such as working with complex data pipelines or software applications
- Experience working with production grade data warehouses using SQL queries and scripting languages (e.g., Python, R)
- Experience with SQL transformation tools like dbt
- Strong background in database design and data modeling
- Experience with Snowflake, implementing a modern data stack, and contributing to large scale data migration efforts
- Effective communication skills when working with team members of varied backgrounds, roles, and functions
- Ability to manage your individual priorities and comfortably context-switch between active development, client discussion, and issue response
- Experience delivering on client priorities that operate on a regular deployment schedule
- Passion in applying your skills to our social mission to problem-solve and collaborate within a cross-functional, client-facing team environment
- The ability to successfully attain and maintain a Federal Public Trust background investigation that our government clients require; this includes a requirement that the individual has U.S. Citizenship or U.S. residency for three of the past five years
- Review and include any contractual requirements (i.e. CMS, government contracts, etc.)
- Ability to hold a Public Trust certification (including residency requirement of 3+ Years in the USA)
What the job involves
- Play a critical role in our database upgrade roadmap, in support of our work for a large federal healthcare program
- Work with complex and nuanced data pipelines and will be responsible for the continuous development, review, and documentation of data wrangling and pipeline solutions
- Develop, test, and operationalize the data pipelines that power our analytics
- Provide visibility into data transformations by designing and implementing data tests throughout existing pipelines
- Extract business logic (ETL/ELT, metrics, metadata) from current data systems into portable cloud-agnostic layers
- Analyze, build, and deploy data models, including relational models for data warehousing
- Plan and maintain data architectures that are aligned with business requirements
- Produce scalable, replicable code and engineering solutions that help automate repetitive data management tasks
- Work closely with data analysts to understand, identify and effectively respond to their specific needs
- Partner with other engineers to deploy and troubleshoot pipeline-related tools, automations, and integrations
- Work as part of a team to maintain a well documented, consistent codebase
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
BlueLabs leverages big data to gain an understanding of and engagement with audiences, allowing its customers to launch more effective communications campaigns. The majority of its work initially came through political campaigns and social impact drives, though the company has expanded its activities into more commercial fields like brand perception and sales in the last few years.
BlueLabs has an interesting origin story, with the founding quartet all working in senior analytics roles for the Democratic Party during the 2012 presidential campaign, where Barrack Obama won a second term against Mitt Romney.
Though the jury is still out on the ethics of big data methods for political motivation - for instance, the Cambridge Analytica scandal regarding its use of social media data in influencing elections - this approach has proven to be extremely effective in persuading and activating audiences. There’s also little doubt that it can be used for great causes too, as shown by BlueLabs’ work with the likes of the UN Refugee Agency, and environmental organization The Sierra Club.
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Company benefits
- Premier health insurance plan
- 401K matching
- Unlimited vacation
- Telecommuting options
- Pre-tax transportation options
- 14+ weeks paid parental leave
- Professional development & learning stipend
- Flexible working hours
- Employee Assistance Program
- Remote friendly (within the U.S.)
Company HQ
Northwest Washington, Washington, DC
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Founders
Elan Kriegel
(Co-founder)Previous Battleground States Analytics Director for the 'Obama for America' campaign in 2011-2012, and Chief Analytics Officer for the 'Hillary for America' campaign in 2015-2016.
Chris Wegrzyn
(Co-founder & Senior Advisor)Previous Director of Data Architecture for the Democratic National Committee. Current Fellow at Schmidt Futures.
Dan Porter
(Co-founder & Head of Data Science)Experience as Director of Modeling for the 'Obama for America' campaign in 2011-2012.
Erek Dyskant
(Co-founder & Civic Tech Partner)Previous Analytics Technical Lead for the 'Obama for America' campaign, and experience in consulting for Me! and International Medical Corps.
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