What You'll Do
- The Corporate Compliance Data Engineer will work with Corporate Compliance Leadership to implement and manage technological requirements associated with Avalara’s Anti Money Laundering Program. This role, based in office or remotely, will suit an individual who is motivated and looking to work in a high growth and fast paced environment.
We are looking for a talented, highly motivated Senior Data Engineer to join our team!
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines for collecting, processing, and analyzing security-related data from various sources;
- Apply best practices for data integrity, reliability, and scalability in the security data pipeline;
- Work closely with partner security teams, leadership, and engineering to design and implement solutions that measurably reduce risk in Avalara's cloud environments.
- Engineer automated solutions "as code" for multiple hyperscale cloud providers
- Ensure that the security data pipeline complies with relevant security standards, regulations, and industry best practices;
- Collaborate with compliance teams to implement necessary controls and reporting mechanisms;
- Convert business needs to functional requirements to create scalable, repeatable, and flexible pipelines
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of the security data pipeline architecture, configurations, and processes;
- Generate regular reports on the performance of the pipeline, data quality, and incidents detected.
What You'll Need to be Successful
- Qualifications: Bachelor/master's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Minimum of 8+ years of relevant professional experience in design and development role;
- Expert level experience in SQL and Python;
- Enterprise-class experience with large scale cloud solutions in data engineering projects using the Snowflake data platform;
- Understanding of orchestration technologies such as Docker, Container, CI/CD and Kubernetes;
- Excellent experience in AWS data engineering ecosystem, Snowflake tools and implement data security domain;
- Experience designing secure cloud architectures in a hyper-scale cloud service provider (AWS, GCP or Azure or OCI);
- Advanced knowledge of common cloud security services and tools such as Identity and Access Management (IAM), RBAC Automation and other data security practices;
- Demonstrated ability to architect and build data solutions that leverage data quality and anomaly detection best practices;
- Strong understanding of data governance and data security best practices;
- Understand global data security requirements such as GDPR and SOC 2;
- Experience analyzing website traffic data and network data;
- Ability to drive program maturity by evangelizing modern secure architectures and services.
- AWS or any professional data security certification;
- Experience in data Modelling;
- Experience with data visualization (SSRS, PowerBI/Tableau/Hex/R-shiny, etc.) and data storytelling.
Technologies You Are Likely To Be Working With
- Snowflake, Cloud Computing AWS, Python, RDBMS, ETL data-pipeline, Mongo, Airflow, orchestration technologies such as Docker, Container, CI/CD and Kubernetes;
- Expert level experience in SQL;
- Experience in common cloud security services and tools such as Identity and Access Management (IAM) and experience in GCP, HEX/R-Shiny/PBI/Tableau.
How We'll Take Care of You
Total Rewards
In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.
Health & Wellness
Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.
Inclusive culture and diversity
Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.
Flexible hybrid working
We support hybrid work and flexible schedules for our employees.
Learn more about our benefits by region here: https://careers.avalara.com/
About Avalara
We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.
We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year.
Last year, we became a billion-dollar business
, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.
We’re bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.
We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.
EEO Statement
We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
