Lead Data/Machine Learning Engineer

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10,001+ employees

Global technology consultancy driving digital innovation

Company Overview

Thoughtworks stands out as a global technology consultancy with a rich history of over 28 years, offering a unique blend of strategy, design, and engineering to drive digital innovation. The company's culture fosters learning and growth, bringing together a diverse mix of technologists, from fresh computer science graduates to experienced professionals and self-taught developers, creating an environment that encourages mutual learning and challenge. With a proven track record in creating adaptable technology platforms, designing top-tier digital products, and harnessing data and AI, Thoughtworks has consistently demonstrated industry leadership and a competitive edge.

Consumer Software

Consulting

Fintech

Company Stage

Private

Total Funding

$748M

Founded

1993

Headquarters

Chicago, Illinois

Growth & Insights

Headcount

6 month growth

↓ -2%

1 year growth

↓ -5%

2 year growth

↑ 13%

Locations

Chicago, IL, USA

Experience Level

Entry

Junior

Mid

Senior

Expert

Desired Skills

Apache Hive

Apache Spark

AWS

Apache Kafka

Data Analysis

Hadoop

Airflow

Microsoft Azure

NoSQL

Cassandra

CategoriesNew

Software Engineering

Requirements

You are equally happy coding and leading a team to implement a solution
You have a track record of innovation and expertise in Data Engineering
You're passionate about craftsmanship and have applied your expertise across a range of industries and organizations
You have a deep understanding of data modelling and experience with data engineering tools and platforms such as Kafka, Spark, and Hadoop
You have built large-scale data pipelines and data-centric applications using any of the distributed storage platforms such as HDFS, S3, NoSQL databases (Hbase, Cassandra, etc.) and any of the distributed processing platforms like Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Oozie, and Airflow in a production setting
Hands on experience in MapR, Cloudera, Hortonworks and/or cloud (AWS EMR, Azure HDInsights, Qubole etc.) based Hadoop distributions
You are comfortable taking data-driven approaches and applying data security strategy to solve business problems
You're genuinely excited about data infrastructure and operations with a familiarity working in cloud environments
Working with data excites you: you have created Big data architecture, you can build and operate data pipelines, and maintain data storage, all within distributed systems
Advocate your data engineering expertise to the broader tech community outside of Thoughtworks, speaking at conferences and acting as a mentor for more junior-level data engineers
You're resilient and flexible in ambiguous situations and enjoy solving problems from technical and business perspectives
An interest in coaching others, sharing your experience and knowledge with teammates
You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed

Responsibilities

You might spend a few weeks with a new client on a deep technical review or a complete organizational review, helping them to understand the potential that data brings to solve their most pressing problems
You will partner with teammates to create complex data processing pipelines in order to solve our clients' most ambitious challenges
You will collaborate with Data Scientists in order to design scalable implementations of their models
You will pair to write clean and iterative code based on TDD and leverage various continuous delivery practices to deploy, support and operate data pipelines*
Advise and educate clients on how to use different distributed storage and computing technologies from the plethora of options available
Develop and operate modern data architecture approaches to meet key business objectives and provide end-to-end data solutions
Create data models and speak to the tradeoffs of different modeling approaches
On other projects, you might be acting as the architect, leading the design of technical solutions, or perhaps overseeing a program inception to build a new product
Seamlessly incorporate data quality into your day-to-day work as well as into the delivery process
Assure effective collaboration between Thoughtworks' and the client's teams, encouraging open communication and advocating for shared outcomes

Data Engineers develop modern data architecture approaches to meet key business objectives and provide end-to-end data solutions. You might spend a few weeks with a new client on a deep technical review or a complete organizational review, helping them to understand the potential that data brings to solve their most pressing problems. On other projects, you might be acting as the architect, leading the design of technical solutions, or perhaps overseeing a program inception to build a new product. It could also be a software delivery project where you’re equally happy coding and tech-leading the team to implement the solution.

Job responsibilities

You might spend a few weeks with a new client on a deep technical review or a complete organizational review, helping them to understand the potential that data brings to solve their most pressing problems
You will partner with teammates to create complex data processing pipelines in order to solve our clients’ most ambitious challenges
You will collaborate with Data Scientists in order to design scalable implementations of their models*
You will pair to write clean and iterative code based on TDD and leverage various continuous delivery practices to deploy, support and operate data pipelines*
Advise and educate clients on how to use different distributed storage and computing technologies from the plethora of options available
Develop and operate modern data architecture approaches to meet key business objectives and provide end-to-end data solutions
Create data models and speak to the tradeoffs of different modeling approaches
On other projects, you might be acting as the architect, leading the design of technical solutions, or perhaps overseeing a program inception to build a new product
Seamlessly incorporate data quality into your day-to-day work as well as into the delivery process
Assure effective collaboration between Thoughtworks’ and the client’s teams, encouraging open communication and advocating for shared outcomes

Job qualifications

Technical Skills

You are equally happy coding and leading a team to implement a solution
You have a track record of innovation and expertise in Data Engineering
You’re passionate about craftsmanship and have applied your expertise across a range of industries and organizations
You have a deep understanding of data modelling and experience with data engineering tools and platforms such as Kafka, Spark, and Hadoop
You have built large-scale data pipelines and data-centric applications using any of the distributed storage platforms such as HDFS, S3, NoSQL databases (Hbase, Cassandra, etc.) and any of the distributed processing platforms like Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Oozie, and Airflow in a production setting
Hands on experience in MapR, Cloudera, Hortonworks and/or cloud (AWS EMR, Azure HDInsights, Qubole etc.) based Hadoop distributions
You are comfortable taking data-driven approaches and applying data security strategy to solve business problems
You’re genuinely excited about data infrastructure and operations with a familiarity working in cloud environments
Working with data excites you: you have created Big data architecture, you can build and operate data pipelines, and maintain data storage, all within distributed systems

Professional Skills

Advocate your data engineering expertise to the broader tech community outside of Thoughtworks, speaking at conferences and acting as a mentor for more junior-level data engineers
You’re resilient and flexible in ambiguous situations and enjoy solving problems from technical and business perspectives
An interest in coaching others, sharing your experience and knowledge with teammates
You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed

Other things to know

Learning & Development

There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.

Diversity & Inclusion

Thoughtworks is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Thoughtworks will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed, submit a request through this form.

About Thoughtworks

Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that integrates strategy, design and engineering to drive digital innovation. For 30+ years, our clients have trusted our autonomous teams to build solutions that look past the obvious. Here, computer science grads come together with seasoned technologists, self-taught developers, midlife career changers and more to learn from and challenge each other. Career journeys flourish with the strength of our cultivation culture, which has won numerous awards around the world.

Join Thoughtworks and thrive. Together, our extra curiosity, innovation, passion and dedication overcomes ordinary.

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Salary

Benefits: https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-us/careers/benefits

The annual salary range posted is subject to many factors and may vary depending on experience, geographic location, job responsibilities, performance, skills and/or training.

Salary

$137,000—$222,000 USD