Hoot Hiring Sprint for Lead, Software Development (Data Technology) February 24th - March 6
We’re looking for a Team Lead, Data Technology to help us build and lead a high-performance team that solves challenging data engineering problems as we build our next generation data platform to support Hootsuite’s growing data needs. You will support the Senior Manager, Data Analytics to hire, grow, coach, and lead a team of developers to build, scale, monitor, and optimize data and analytics infrastructure used daily by Hootsuite decision makers. This is a remote-first role and is open to applicants located within provinces/states where we comply with our legal hiring entities.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Lead development and maintenance of scalable and efficient data pipeline architecture
- Work within cross-functional teams, including Data Science, Analytics, Software Development, and business units, to deliver data products and services.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders and translate requirements into scalable data solutions.
- Monitor and communicate project statuses while mitigating risk and resolving issues.
- Work closely with the Senior Manager to align team priorities with business objectives.
- Assess and prioritize the team's work, appropriately delegating to others and encouraging team ownership.
- Proactively share information, actively solicit feedback, and facilitate communication, within teams and other departments.
- Design, write, test, and deploy high quality scalable code.
- Maintain high standards of security, reliability, scalability, performance, and quality in all delivered projects.
- Contribute to shape our technical roadmap as we scale our services and build our next generation data platform.
- Build, support and lead a high performance, cohesive team of developers, in close partnership with the Senior Manager, Data Analytics.
- Participate in the hiring process, with an aim of attracting and hiring the best developers.
- Facilitate ongoing development conversations with your team to support their learning and career growth.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
- A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and senior-level experience in developing and maintaining software or an equivalent level of education or work experience, and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact.
- Experience planning and leading a team using Scrum agile methodology ensuring timely delivery and continuous improvement.
- Experience liaising with various business stakeholders to understand their data requirements and convey the technical solutions.
- Experience with data warehousing and data modeling best practices.
- Passionate interest in data engineering and infrastructure; ingestion, storage and compute in relational, NoSQL, and serverless architectures
- Experience developing data pipelines and integrations for high volume, velocity and variety of data.
- Experience writing clean code that performs well at scale; ideally experienced with languages like Python, Scala, SQL and shell script.
- Experience with various types of data stores, query engines and data frameworks, e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, S3, Redshift, Presto/Athena, Spark and dbt.
- Experience working with message queues such as Kafka and Kinesis
- Experience with ETL and pipeline orchestration such as Airflow, AWS Glue
- Experience with JIRA in managing sprints and roadmaps
- Open Communication: clearly conveys thoughts, both written and verbally, listening attentively and asking questions for clarification and understanding.
- Builds inclusive, cohesive teams which apply diversity to achieve common goals.
- Capably delivers results through others, is good at establishing clear direction, helping others achieve their best work.
- Identifies key issues and relationships relevant to achieving a long-range goal or vision; Builds an integrated plan for course of action to accomplish this vision.
- Challenges and supports others to create results but also develop new capabilities.
- Successfully develops the capacity and capability of the team and individuals on the teams.
WHO YOU ARE:
- Solution seeker. You’re focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward—and you don’t wait to be asked.
- Lifelong learner. You have a growth mindset – you’re here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn’t.
- Resilient adapter. In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity.
- Intentional collaborator. You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information.
- Critical challenger. You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result.
- Active communicator. You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively.
- Integrated thinker. You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team’s work drives broader organizational goals.
- Accountable owner. You take pride in the work you’re responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes.
- Bar-raiser. You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected.
In all we do, our six guiding principles light the way:
Step Up: Show the world what it looks like to live and work by these guiding principles. #StepUp
One Team: Make Hootsuite a place where everyone feels safe, welcome, valued, and empowered to do their best work without compromising who they are. #OneTeam #FreeToBeMe
Customer Obsessed: Focus relentlessly on helping our customers succeed. #CustomerObsessed
Go Fast, Be Agile: Widen our competitive advantage by committing to speed and simplicity over perfection and complexity. #GoFastBeAgile
Play to Win: Commit to building an incredible, profitable company for our customers, our employees, and our stakeholders. #PlayToWin #NoExcuses
Neighbours & Allies: Give back to our communities and be an ally. #SocialForGood #Allies
Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Canada Pay Range For This Role
$98,400—$137,800 CAD
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What We Do
Hootsuite has been on the pulse of how people use social media for over a decade. As the global leader and world’s first social media management platform, we put social to work in every corner of every organization, from the smallest business to the largest enterprise. We are committed to helping customers harness the power of social media to ignite their brand and business.
How? Over time, we’ve adapted our software to help businesses reach their customers more efficiently across multiple platforms, improve their customer service and gain deeper analytics and consumer insights. Through our deep expertise in social media management, social insights, employee advocacy, and social customer care, we empower organizations to strategically grow their brands, businesses, and customer relationships – while guiding them through the wild world of social media.
Put simply, we help our customers with:
Social media marketing: Create, schedule, publish, and manage content and ad campaigns across social networks from a single dashboard. We help maximize the impact of social marketing by providing real-time insights, so customers can focus on other areas of their business.
Social care: By combining the power of conversational AI with the human touch of our customers’ team(s), our customer messaging platform delivers exceptional customer experiences at scale.
Social customer care: We help our customers meet their customers where they are at. Using Hootsuite, businesses can view and manage all of their customer conversations in one dashboard, providing service that’s seamless and personal.
Why Work With Us
As the creators of social media management, Hootsuite has been on the pulse of this dynamic and ever-changing space since our inception. Working at Hootsuite means being at the forefront of social innovation, tapping into courageous creativity to guide customers through the wild world of social, and helping to define what it means to ‘be social.’
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