Summary

As a Data Engineer, you will play a crucial role in implementing, improving, and maintaining Block’s Looker and Tableau implementations. This includes partnering and consulting with business and analytics teams to provide guidance and assistance in creating and streamlining Looker and Tableau reports. This also includes creating production quality ETLs and or automated Python scripts using orchestration platforms such as Airflow and or Prefect. As part of the Automated Reporting Tools team, you’ll help develop and lead trainings to communicate reporting and data architecture best practices, and you’ll co-host office hours to provide direct assistance. Your expertise and enthusiasm will inspire people across Block to adopt and innovate their Looker and Tableau reporting!

You will:

1. Become a subject matter expert on Looker and Tableau, both as development platforms and visualization tools
2. Design and develop scalable turn-key ETL pipelines 
3. Partner with product analysts, data scientists, engineers, business users, and others to understand their needs and come up with an end-to-end solution
4. Translate business requirements to actionable data solutions (English SQL)
5. Hold office hours, training sessions, brown bags and more to evangelize Looker, Tableau, and ETL best practices throughout the company

Qualifications

1. 5+ years building and supporting reporting data systems built on columnar oriented RDBMS systems (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, etc.)
2. Strong experience in visualization technologies including Tableau, Looker and/or another BI tool
3. Strong experience building data pipelines (e.g. Event streams, Flat Files, RDBMS, REST APIs, SFTP, etc.) to support analytical workloads
4. Knowledge of at least one mature programming language (Ruby (and Rails), Python, Java, Go, or similar)
5. Experience with cloud based data tools and services (e.g. AWS Lambda/S3/Transfer, GCP Cloud Functions/GCS, Fivetran, etc.)
6. Strong technical accomplishments in SQL and data analysis skills
7. Strong business intuition and ability to understand complex business systems

Preferred:

1. Prior Looker or Tableau experience
2. Prior Airflow or Prefect experience
3. Experience with Linux/OSX command line, version control software (git), and general software development
4. Experience leveraging APIs to automated tasks
5. Teaching/training/consulting experience

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, let your recruiter know. 

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Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. Canada locations are categorized into one of two zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Zone A:

$114,500—$171,700 CAD

Zone B:

$110,500—$165,700 CAD

Skills

• AWS
• Database Management
• Development
• Java
• Python
• SQL
• Team Collaboration