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Senior Data Engineer

Zeals Meguro-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 No salary range given
  • 🏡 Fully remote (within Japan)
  • 🧪 5+ years experience required
  • 💬 No Japanese required
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan

About Zeals

Zeals Meguro-ku, Tokyo

We are a group of scrappy and hungry bunch from different walks of life, looking to make an actual impact on the way people and businesses communicate through our AI Chatbot technology.

Key benefits

  • Everyone has a voice
  • Phenomenal growth
  • Full flexibility

About the position

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be a key player in our data engineering team, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our data pipelines and infrastructure. You will work on transforming raw data into structured formats to support advanced analytics and reporting. Your work will ensure the smooth ingestion, transformation, and organization of data in our data lakehouse so that it’s ready for data analysts to consume and transform into actionable dashboards and reports. We’re searching for someone with at least 5 years of experience in data engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and optimize data pipelines to ingest data into our data lakehouse.
  • Implement and manage ETL processes using Google Cloud Composer, Dataproc, and dbt.
  • Develop data transformations within a medallion architecture (bronze, silver, gold layers).
  • Collaborate with data analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements.
  • Implement data quality checks and monitoring.
  • Monitor and optimize the performance of BigQuery datasets and queries.
  • Document processes, designs, and architectural decisions.
  • Design and develop a read-optimized data warehouse layer.
  • Troubleshoot daily reporting pipelines
  • Conducting code reviews and providing mentorship to junior engineers.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to manipulate and interpret complex datasets.
  • Proficiency in SQL and experience with databases such as MySQL and BigQuery.
  • Knowledge of dbt
  • Experience with data platforms like Airflow, Dataproc, Great Expectations.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Nice to haves

While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.

  • Experience in both Python and Scala
  • Conversational Japanese ability
  • Understanding of cultural differences
  • Knowledge and experience in chatbots, AI, marketing, and SaaS products

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