Principal Data Engineer

We are seeking a self-motivated and self-directed data engineer / software engineer to develop and maintain our license usage data system.

This position plays a key role in a business-critical initiative and requires excellent hands-on software development skills as well as a big-picture perspective. You will develop requirements, implement features, and analyze data to further our understanding of customers and their usage of MathWorks products. Strong interpersonal and communication skills are a must as this is a highly visible position that involves collaboration with teams across the organization.

Responsibilities

As part of this team, you will

• Evaluate and employ appropriate state of the art solutions from Amazon Web Services / EC2 and other providers.
• Extract and analyze customer provided data to accurately determine usage and identify patterns.
• Gather business use cases, develop requirements, enhance our data pipeline, and build reports in support of Sales, Marketing, and Development teams tasked with utilizing usage data to better understand our customers and their use of our products.
• Manage the workflow and on-time delivery of requests for enhancements, reports, ad hoc analysis, and modeling for targeting and segmentation strategies.
• Establish and maintain the data pipeline and infrastructure. Collaborate with Quality Engineers to develop data validation strategies.
• Develop a strong working knowledge of MathWorks development practices, business processes, and enterprise data warehouse and reporting environment.

Minimum Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree and 10 years of professional work experience (or equivalent experience) is required.
• Expertise with SQL

Additional Qualifications

Must Have:

• Advanced degree preferred
• Expert level data analysis skills
• Experience with scripting in one or more of the following (Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP)
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
• Ability to clearly explain technical and analytical information (verbally, written & in presentation format)
• Excellent project management skills with attention to detail

Nice to Have:

• Expert level of proficiency in SQL, Excel, and at least one of the following: MATLAB, SAS, SPSS or R
• Proficient with reporting tools such as; PowerBI or Tableau is a plus.
• Experience with enterprise system applications
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience with data security