PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Help determine the direction and implementation of YPO’s internal data architecture and its usage throughout the organization and its member-facing services.
• Collaborate with the data product owner on new product development.
• Design and build data services and pipelines that can support a wide-variety of use-cases.
• Support internal data products and services by analyzing and organizing raw data.
• Evaluate business needs and objectives as they relate to data usage and development.
• Analyze and interpret trends and patterns to help find new opportunities.
• Help define data best practices and tool usage.
• Explore ways to enhance data quality and reliability.
• Identify opportunities for data acquisition.

SKILLS

• Ability to work collaboratively in a multi-cultural organization with international members, helping them achieve excellence in voluntary roles for YPO initiatives.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, adept at building meaningful relationships with all levels of associates, members and vendors. Adaptable, insightful, empathetic and reliable.
• Able to maintain discretion and integrity of confidential information.
• Resourceful and able to work independently with initiative and good judgement. Effective time management, organization and prioritization, managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Possesses a distinct global mindset, sensitive to local and international customs and protocols.
• Able to identify problems, research alternatives, provide solutions and/or resolve issues in a timely manner. Anticipates member needs and delivers with clarity.
• Analytical with ability to influence and guide appropriately and execute. Natural curiosity and desire to learn more; proficiency and interest in applying new technologies and tools.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including proof reading, with a meticulous attention to detail. Adjusts communication style appropriately to the audience.
• Professional presence, appearance, and stature to interact easily with YPO members, C-level executives and high-profile corporate leaders.

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE / BACKGROUND

• Bachelor’s degree in data engineering or at least 8+ years of comparable professional experience in a data engineering role. Master’s degree preferred.
• Prefer 5+ years’ experience working as a data engineer for a consumer-facing organization with a large and varied customer/user-base.
• Extensive hands-on experience with relational, noSQLgraph and GraphQL database design.
• Technical expertise with data models, data mining, and segmentation techniques.
• Knowledge of applicable programming languages  (e.g. Java and Python) and experience working within a test-driven CI/CD development pipeline.
• Great numerical and analytical skills.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to combine data from a variety of different sources, and to see how that data can be correlated to provide valuable business and end-user insights.
• Experience working with a wide variety of data platforms like Snowflake and BigQuery with Looker and Tableau, and data services that include Salesforce and 3rd party API-based data.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to work flexible and/or extended hours as needed to accommodate members and team members in multiple time zones.
• Willingness and ability to travel, domestically and internationally, without restrictions, approximately 20% per year.