Data Engineer, Staff

Realtor.com Careers•Austin, TX

About The Position

Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions. Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance. At http://Realtor.com , we are building products that empower millions of homebuyers, renters, and real estate professionals to navigate the journey of home ownership with confidence. Because data is our most strategic asset, we are seeking a Senior Data Governance Engineer to help operationalize our Data Governance mission, guiding our business-led data strategy. In this role, you will be the bridge between our high-level mission and technical execution, charged with developing and delivering enterprise wide data governance solutions. As a senior engineer in our Data Governance Function, you will help scale our cross-functional governance programs, which help guide our data strategy. You will partner with engineering, product, and business leaders to deliver upon our governance needs, develop data guard rails, and guide the enterprise to data self service. This role requires an experienced developer who thrives in ambiguity, has in-depth knowledge of data governance, quality and management, and is adept at driving data clarity. You should have a strong perspective on how to foster effective collaboration, manage competing priorities, and deliver results in a dynamic environment. You should be comfortable with tracking and leveraging metrics to support data health and performance, and advocating for continuous process improvement.

Requirements

8+ years of experience working as a data developer with at least 4 years specifically focused on Data Governance
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, and master data management best practices including experience implementing metadata management, data catalogs, lineage and data quality tools
Deep expertise in SQL and Python and working knowledge of modern data stack components (dbt, Airflow, Kafka, or Spark).
Experience implementing AI/ML initiatives in data pipelines to drive data governance
Proficiency working in cloud environments (e.g. Snowflake)
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a proactive approach to identifying and addressing challenges.
Experience working with data catalog (e.g. Collibra, Alation, Azure, etc.) and data quality tools (e.g. Informatica, Ab Intio, etc.)
Experience developing BI dashboards utilizing tools such as Tableau, Looker, QLik, etc.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
Certification in Data Management (e.g. DAMA, CDMP)
Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. Snowflake)
Working knowledge of Acryl Data Catalog
Knowledge of privacy regulations such as CCPA, GDPR, etc.

Responsibilities

You will help operationalize the data governance program by designing and developing tools to automate data discovery, metadata extraction and data lineage tracking
Partner with Data Architects to design "governance-by-design" schemas
Build integrations between our data lake and governance catalog
You will operate and maintain the technical features of the data catalog used to define data, document its metadata, and collect lineage.
You will ensure data is fit for purpose by following the defined data quality framework to manage the development, delivery and maintenance of of data quality rules, both at rest and in motion
You will drive development efforts to implement enterprise-wide data governance initiatives such as a Master Data Management solution, Data Quality dashboards and a Data Marketplace.
Deliver on data privacy initiative through the implementation and automation of data masking, encryption and regulatory compliance workflows