Job Location: Westlake Village, CA
Job Detail:
Position Summary: Cloud Data Engineer
The Cloud Engineer will provide a strong leadership role in developing the Enterprise data architecture of Digital and Retail businesses across different guitar Center brands, providing technical guidance, architecture, and enforcing technical standards. Provides assessments and prototyping of new concepts and technologies and often develops capabilities to be handed off to operational development teams. Provides analysis on complex problems as well as be an active member of enterprise technology design decisions.
Responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to the following:
- Accountable for modernization, migration/transformation to a cloud data platform
- Design and build reliable, scalable data infrastructure with leading privacy and security techniques to safeguard data
- Architect scalable, secure, low latency, resilient and cost-effective solutions for enabling predictive and prescriptive analytics across the organization
- Design/ Architect frameworks to Operationalize ML models through serverless architecture and support unsupervised continuous training models
- Take over and scale our data models (Tableau, Dynamo DB, Kibana)
- Communicate data-backed findings to a diverse constituency of internal and external stakeholders
- Build frameworks for data ingestion pipeline both real-time and batch using best practices in data modeling, ETL/ELT processes, and hand off to data engineers
- Participate in technical decisions and collaborate with talented peers
- Review code, implementations and give meaningful feedback that helps others build better solutions
- Helps drive technology direction and choices of technologies by making recommendations based on experience and research
- Additional duties as assigned
About Guitar Center
The Guitar Center Company embodies the world of creativity and music by encouraging our teammates to find their own individual sound. Our mission is to develop and nurture lifelong musicians and make a difference in the world by enabling musicians and non-musicians alike to experience the joy that comes from creating music. We believe in putting our customers first, engaging with respect and integrity, and fulfilling our mission with passion.
The Guitar Center Company operates through several business divisions. Guitar Center is the world’s largest retailer of guitars, amplifiers, drums, keyboards, recording, live sound, DJ, and lighting equipment, with more than 290 stores across the United States. 2014 marked the milestone 50th anniversary of the Guitar Center Company as the organization continues to help people make music from coast to coast.
E-Commerce brands Guitar Center, Musician’s Friend and WWBW offer online sales of a broad selection of music products. The Music & Arts division operates more than 220 stores specializing in band & orchestral instruments for sale and rental, serving teachers, band directors, college professors, and students since 1952. AVDG and GCPro headline the enterprise audio-visual integration business, delivering a best-in-class commercial and residential customer experience.
To Join Our Band, You’ll Need The Following Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 7 or more years of experience working directly with enterprise data solutions
- Hands-on experience working in a public cloud environment and on-prem infrastructure.
- Specialty on Columnar Databases like Redshift Spectrum, Time Series data stores like Apache Pinot, and the AWS cloud infrastructure
- Experience with in-memory, serverless, streaming technologies and orchestration tools such as Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Kubernetes
- Current hands-on implementation experience required, possessing 7or more years of IT platform implementation experience.
- AWS Certified Big Data – Specialty desirable
- Experience designing and implementing AWS big data and analytics solutions in large digital and retail environments is desirable
- Advanced knowledge and experience in online transactional (OLTP) processing and analytical processing (OLAP) databases, data lakes, and schemas.
- Experience with AWS Cloud Data Lake Technologies and operational experience of Kinesis/Kafka, S3, Glue, and Athena.
- Experience with any of the message/file formats: Parquet, Avro, ORC
- Design and development experience on a Streaming Service, EMS, MQ, Java, XSD, File Adapter, and ESB based applications
- Experience in distributed architectures such as Microservices, SOA, RESTful APIs, and data integration architectures.
- Experience with a wide variety of modern data processing technologies, including:
- Big Data Stack (Spark, spectrum, Flume, Kafka, Kinesis, etc.)
- Data streaming (Kafka, SQS/SNS queuing, etc)
- Columnar databases (Redshift, Snowflake, Firebolt, etc)
- Commonly used AWS services (S3, Lambda, Redshift, Glue, EC2, etc)
- Expertise in Python, pySpark, or similar programming languages
- BI tools (Tableau, Domo, MicroStrategy)
- Understanding Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
Why Guitar Center? Here’s just some of the rewards:
For our employees who are musicians we offer the unique opportunity of gig leave–take time off to share your music with the world and return to your job after your tour! Guitar Center offers robust benefits and perks, including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K plus company match, mental health support, paid sick/holiday/vacation time, employee discount program, and tuition reimbursement options.
Pay Rate: $103,800-129,700/yr depending on background and experience.
The job posting is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific employee, which is always dependent on actual experience, education, and other factors. The pay range(s) listed are provided in compliance with state specific laws. Pay ranges may be different in other locations.
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