Remote Data Platform Reliability Lead

Workiva Inc.; Virginia (MN); Hybrid; USD 151,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

401(k) match

Restricted Stock Units granted at hire

Job summary

Workiva Inc. is seeking a Data Operations Lead in Virginia to ensure the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of their analytics and data systems. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience managing data infrastructure and providing technical guidance to cross-functional teams.

The role includes leading incident management, implementing reliability goals, and designing monitoring frameworks, while offering a competitive salary range between $151,000 and $242,000, along with various employee benefits.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering, focusing on data infrastructure.
• Expert-level experience with Terraform and Splunk.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake and DBT.
• Experience managing ingestion frameworks such as Fivetran or Census.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert technical guidance and direction to an offshore contract team.
• Own the operational health and performance of the data platform.
• Lead incident response and management for platform-related production issues.
• Design and implement monitoring frameworks for service-oriented architecture.
• Reduce operational toil by building self-service workflows and automated solutions.

Skills

Technical leadership

Data modeling

ETL/ELT pipelines

Python

Snowflake SQL

Terraform

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field

Tools

Snowflake

Airflow

DBT

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Workiva Inc. is seeking a Data Operations Lead in Virginia to ensure the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of their analytics and data systems. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience managing data infrastructure and providing technical guidance to cross-functional teams.

The role includes leading incident management, implementing reliability goals, and designing monitoring frameworks, while offering a competitive salary range between $151,000 and $242,000, along with various employee benefits.