Workiva

Workiva

Data Operations Lead

USA - Remote

Sponsorship not specified$151k-$242kDetected 30 days ago
PythonJavaGoScalaDistributed SystemsBigQuerySnowflakeDatabricksAWSDockerKubernetesTerraformLinuxDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringAirflowdbtData EngineeringIncident ResponseComplianceStakeholder ManagementSystems EngineeringHIPAA

About the role

  • This role is operationally critical and technically demanding.
  • You will be a key driver of technical strategy and execution without direct people management responsibilities.
  • If you are energized by solving complex data problems at scale and want your work to have a direct impact every day, join us on this transformative journey.

Responsibilities

  • Incident Management: Lead and drive incident response and management for platform-related production issues. Conduct blameless post-mortems and drive systemic enhancements in reliability and efficiency based on findings
  • Automation & Platform Engineering: Reduce operational toil by building self-service workflows, "guardrails," and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions.
  • Data Quality Frameworks: Building automated "circuit breakers" that stop data from reaching the warehouse if it doesn't meet quality standards (e.g., missing values or incorrect formatting)
  • Operational Support: Consult with and provide expert operational support to data engineering, product teams, and stakeholders who utilize the Data Platform. This is critical to ensuring the performance and reliability of downstream data products
  • Lead and drive incident response and management for platform-related production issues.
  • Conduct blameless post-mortems and drive systemic enhancements in reliability and efficiency based on findings
  • Consult with and provide expert operational support to data engineering, product teams, and stakeholders who utilize the Data Platform.
  • Workiva is the platform designed to bring confidence, control, and a competitive edge to the world's most complex organizations.
  • The work you do here helps organizations navigate uncertainty, maintain trust, and make decisions that stand up to scrutiny.
  • Workiva supports employees in working where they work best - either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Technical Direction: Proven ability to provide clear technical leadership, direction, and oversight to cross-functional or geographically distributed engineering teams (e.g., contract or offshore teams)
  • Data Warehouse: Hands-on experience with Snowflake and DBT a must.
  • Monitoring and Automation: Expert-level hands-on experience with Terraform, Splunk, and Airflow or similar technologies required
  • Programming: High proficiency in Python and programming languages such as Java, Go, or Scala
  • Data Lakes: Experience with S3, Athena and Iceberg required
  • 6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering roles, with a deep focus on data infrastructure, including experience leading technical projects or teams
  • Proven ability to provide clear technical leadership, direction, and oversight to cross-functional or geographically distributed engineering teams (e.g., contract or offshore teams)
  • Hands-on experience with Snowflake and DBT a must.

Nice to have

  • Infrastructure: Extensive experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-managed services (AWS preferred)
  • Systems Knowledge: Familiarity with Unix/Linux system internals, networking, and distributed systems
  • Scale: Experience in designing, analyzing, and operating large-scale distributed systems and massive data warehouses
  • SRE Maturity: Strong background in cost optimization, usage governance, and maturing SRE practices within a data ecosystem
  • Working Conditions & Travel Requirements
  • How You'll Be Rewarded
  • Why Join Workiva
  • Our AI-powered platform unifies finance, risk, and sustainability on a single, secure foundation-ensuring data is trusted, traceable, and ready to act on.

Skills

  • Data Governance and Security
  • Management of ingestion frameworks like Fivetran, CData, Census and Openflow

Compensation

  • $151,000.00 - $242,000.00 ✅ A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
  • The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US.
  • The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant factors.

Benefits

  • Own the operational health and performance of the data platform.
  • Establish alerting for system health, query behavior, and performance bottlenecks
  • ✅ Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
  • ✅ 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package

Company info

  • At Workiva, we are building the data foundation for the next generation of AI-enabled platform.
  • Our Data Platform Ops team is at the center of this mission, merging software development with infrastructure operations to design and manage large-scale.
  • We are looking for a Data Operations Lead to ensure the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our analytics and data systems.

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