Data Architect, Staff

Company: Life360
Location: Encinitas
Posted on: May 9, 2020

Job Description:

Data Architect, Staff

About UsLife360 brings families closer with smart tools designed to protect and connect the people who matter most.

Known for first-to-market solutions for modern family challenges, Life360 recently reached #1 in Apple's US App Store's list of free social networking apps. Nearly 1 in 10 US families with kids use Life360 an average of 12 times a day, and global membership is growing exponentially, with over 25 million monthly active users in over 140 countries making Life360 the largest mobile service for families in the world.

This reach gives us the opportunity to do unprecedented good for families through our valued core offerings: advanced location sharing, private messaging, driver monitoring, help alerts, 24/7 roadside assistance, and Crash Detection with emergency response. On average we respond to 1,000 roadside assists and dispatch 200+ ambulances each month to those in need.

Offering both free and paid memberships. In addition, the company has raised over $200 million in equity financing, and recently completed an IPO on the ASX exchange giving our employees the liquidity of a public company with the upside of a private growth stage business.

Life360's rapidly growing team of 150+ employees is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in San Diego, and Las Vegas.

About the Role:

Responsible for all aspects of data acquisition, data transformation, analytics scheduling and operationalization to drive high-visibility, cross-product outcomes. Investigate, evaluate, test and lead technical solutions for future systems. The Data Management Architect will define and lead the big data and information architecture needs for Life360. The data management architect will partner with all teams to deliver data driven solutions that enable operational efficiency, operational excellence and improve product experience by customers.

Responsibilities:

Data Design Management - 65% of time

Design and deliver a portfolio of product data sets from the definition phase through to production deployment.

Design and architect for distributed, scalable, and reliable data pipelines that ingest and process data at scale and in real-time.

Architect solutions for the design and implementation of Big Data Infrastructure.

Create data environments and/or data sets to serve a wide range of data users, including but not limited to Data Scientists, Data Analysts, Business Analysts and etc.

Perform offline analysis of large data sets using components of a big data software ecosystem.

Evaluate big data technologies and prototype solutions to improve data processing architecture.

Lead efforts to determine root cause of complex data provenance, metadata issues and engineering questions that may involve interfacing with various technical staff in multiple teams and with differing levels of expertise.

Lead the process to Investigate, evaluate, test and recommend technical solutions for future systems.

Define information models supporting product assets of complex data structures represented in various data management systems such as graph, relational and hierarchical.

Define and manage and master data management strategy for cloud-based data sets.

Technical Advisor - 35% of time

Guide other teams to design, develop, and deploy data sets and tools that support product use cases.

Guide and support data compliance that meets global data governance requirements.

Manage portfolio of product data set backlog and support prioritization to ensure alignment with MDM.

Minimum Qualifications:

Required experience with programming languages Python, Scala, Ruby, R

Required database technologies - SQL, performance tuning concepts, AWS RDS, RedShift

Experience with big data batch processing tools: Hadoop MapReduce, ElasticSearch, PIG, Hive,

Cascading/Scalding, Apache Spark, AWS EMR

Experience with stream-processing systems: Kinesis, Kafika, MQTT

Experience with relational NoSQL databases including DyanamoDB

Ability to write JSON, XML, YAML and other data definition schemas

Knowledge of database concepts, object and data modeling techniques and design principles

Detailed knowledge of database architectures, software, and facilities

Successful history of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large disconnected data sets

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

Master's degree in data science, information management or other knowledge management field

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent

combination of education and related experience.

10 years of professional experience as a data engineer

4 years of experience with cloud and Big Data computing design, provisioning, and tuning.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills necessary to effectively collaborate in a team

environment and present and explain technical information and provide advice to management.Perks

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• Fridays are Work From Home days at Life360
  
• Competitive pay and benefits
  
• Free snacks, drinks and food in the office
  
• Catered lunches throughout the week
  
• Health, dental and vision insurance plans
  
• 401k plan
  
• $200/month Quality of Life perk
  
• A great office with plenty of light in the heart of the SOMA district in beautiful San Francisco
  
• Whatever makes you stronger makes us stronger. We buy you the things you need to improve yourself and get your job done.
  

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