Data Architect
Tango Card helps thousands of companies reach their goals by making rewards and incentives easy to send and awesome to receive. Our customers genuinely love working with us, and it shows: We’ve made the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America for the last five years. We’re backed by a stellar group of investors, including the private equity firm FTV (which led a $35M growth equity round in 2018), Fyrfly Venture Partners, Floodgate Capital, Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, SWaN & Legend partners, and WTI.
We work with 2,500+ enterprise customers today, including some of the world’s most recognizable businesses: Twitter, Google, Extole, Microsoft, Salesforce, and F5. We also partner with the top gift card brands, including Amazon, Starbucks, Target, Walmart, The Home Depot as well as 600+ brands across 40+ countries. Our customers send millions of gift cards each month, and we’ve facilitated $2B gift card transactions since our creation. Last but not least, we proudly partner with many of the most respected non-profits in the country, including the National Park Foundation, Special Olympics, and Habitat for Humanity.
Why Work for Us
Tango Card is proud to have been rated one of the Best Companies to work for by Built In Seattle. We’re on an incredible path to be the #1 rewards provider, and we are hiring amazing people across all areas of the business to accomplish our vision.
We foster an office culture of autonomy and transparency with flexible working hours and slim team structures. We provide our team members with what they need to be successful—whether that’s the latest technology at their fingertips or empowering them to attend conferences about industry trends. We’re committed to promoting mentorship and career development opportunities for our team members. Our physical offices are designed for productivity and comfort with standing desks, comfortable pod chairs, and a very dog-friendly environment. If working from home is more your thing, many roles offer the choice to establish a remote office. With a company like Tango Card that’s experiencing high growth year over year, career opportunities abound and you have the chance to create, own, and grow your role.
COVID-19 Update: To learn more about how Tango Card has adapted during these times, take a look at our blog post, How Tango Card is Changing in the Face of COVID-19, by our CEO, David Leeds.
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The Job:
The Business Intelligence (BI) team is committed to democratizing data—making it easy to access at the right time, in the right format, for all users. We develop self-service resources, perform complex analyses, author compelling visualizations, and unearth insights for teams across Tango Card. Collaborating with stakeholders, we create solutions that are used to make strategic decisions, immediately contributing to Tango Card’s mission to make rewards easy to send and awesome to receive. If you’re savvy as a data architect (or data modeler) with a passion for designing, implementing, and enhancing data warehousing and analytic resources that provide a centralized source of truth to facilitate decision making, we want to chat with you!
Reports To: Director, Business Intelligence
As a Data Architect at Tango Card, you’ll: Improve and grow our data environment
- Ensure that Tango Card’s BI technology stack is highly accurate, performant, and secure
- Work collaboratively with BI team members and stakeholders to understand business problems; translate business requirements into ETL/ELT processes and data models
- Own the design, development, and maintenance of the data models at all levels in the data warehouse environment— logical, relational and dimensional— to make data more accessible, consistent, and clear
- Design and implement processes and solutions that support effective data warehouse and query performance and quality
Documentation
- Create and update documentation to support development work (including, but not limited to) code review logs, validation results, execution logs, and profiling results
- Maintain documentation of data definitions, content domains, data classes, subject area classification, and conformed dimensions—and make it available to other systems and applications for broad consumption
- Care for data across multiple systems including a data governance framework, data models, and taxonomies
Strategy
- Define, implement, and grow data warehouse architectural vision, strategy, and standards in partnership with business systems and engineering.
- Establish a roadmap for data modeling that serves Tango Card’s BI needs
- Balance short-term versus long-term actions as well as strategic versus tactical requirements, while continuing to move forward towards the long-term strategic vision
- Stay fluent in industry and marketplace evolution, as well as emerging data solutions, continuously learning and bringing key findings and recommendations to the Director of BI
To be effective in our Data Architect role, you must have:
- 5+ years of experience in a data architecture (or data modeling) role and experience designing, developing, testing and implementing high-performance, scalable, and secure business intelligence and analytic solutions in a high-volume, modern environment
- 5+ years' of experience translating business requirements into technical requirements and data models
- 2+ years modern architecture technology experience (Snowflake, Redshift, Matillion)
- Expertise in data modeling and design (conceptual, logical, physical) following Kimball DWH design methodology
- Demonstrated understanding of relational data models
- Practical experience developing and data profiling using SQL
- Skilled at thinking both forward and proactively when designing analytic solutions
- Ability to maintain exemplary communication and a customer-focused approach while working autonomously across multiple projects
Our ideal Data Architect will have most of the following skills and experience:
- Experience in Tango Card’s technology stack is preferred (Snowflake)
- Familiarity with data flow orchestration
- Experience with Git/GitHub, Jira, and Agile workflows a plus
Please note: visa sponsorship is available for this position.
- Competitive compensation package (money isn’t everything, but it helps)
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits (100% employer paid premium)
- Unlimited PTO and a generous holiday schedule
- 401(k) matching and equity opportunities (401(k) is a 100% match of up to 6%)
- Home-Office grant for ensuring a great WFH environment during social-distancing measures
- Award-winning culture that fosters autonomy, creativity, inclusion, transparency, and ownership
- Continued education and self-growth opportunities through Udemy
- Virtual fitness benefits through Classpass
- Dog-friendly offices
Tango Card is proud to extend its Voluntary WA State Paid Family Medical Leave Plan to employees across all Tango Card locations.
Tango Card is proud to be an equitable and equal opportunity employer; we’re strong because we’re diverse and prioritize inclusive practices. All applicants will be recruited and considered for employment regardless of their social identities, including but not limited to race, gender, color, religion, belief, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, and other protected classes. We thrive in the areas of recruiting and hiring when we have a growing awareness of the challenges faced by underrepresented candidates during the application and hiring process. We encourage all candidates to apply for roles they feel they have the skills to fulfill or a willingness to learn.