About BlueLabs

BlueLabs is a leading provider of analytics services and technology dedicated to helping our partners do the most good with their data. Our team of analysts, scientists, engineers, and strategists hail from diverse backgrounds yet share a passion for using data to solve the world’s greatest social and analytical challenges. Since our inception we’ve worked with more than 400 organizations ranging from government agencies, advocacy groups, unions, political campaigns, and international groups. In addition, we service an ever-expanding portfolio of commercial clients in the automotive, travel, CPG, entertainment, healthcare, media, and telecom industries. Along the way, we’ve developed some of the most innovative tools available in analytics, media optimization, reporting, and influencer outreach.

About the team:

The Engineering team at BlueLabs supports application access, asset management, and broader operational logistics. We work with a number of internal stakeholders including the Data Science, Insights, Civic Technology, and Ripple teams. Our work supports the underlying infrastructure and data pipelines which allow the rest of the teams to conduct innovative analyses, propose innovative improvements in government operations, and hone messaging for important campaigns. We work in changing, ambiguous environments, so we embrace nuance, inclusivity, and complexity to deliver programs that work for the diverse groups of individuals who rely on us. You’ll be working with a team of professionals with various work backgrounds and experiences who seek to make Blue Labs a more efficient, compliant, and positive place to work.

As a member of the team, you might answer questions like

• What is a current need at BlueLabs, and how can we build a process that addresses it?
• How can we make existing systems more efficient and values-driven?
• How can I create a plan that sets BlueLabs, its staff, and its clients up for success?
• How can I best position my team to plan for the challenges of tomorrow and their professional development and growth?
• How can I proactively identify roadblocks and break them down for my team before they get hit?  

About the position:

The Engineering Manager will help support, lead, and develop the software engineering and technology that powers all of our programs across all of BlueLabs. Your team will work to ensure all data,  applications, and resources are available and accessible. Working collaboratively with team members, you will also strategize, develop, and implement efficient and secure structures which support our client work. 

In this position you will:

• Manage a 5-person Engineering team with a wide variety of skill sets and responsibilities
• Conduct regular code reviews in a variety of languages, including python, c# and typescript. 
• Regularly contribute, in a hands-on manner, writing code and reviewing code written by members of the Engineering team
• Manage and drive procurement for third-party products that the Engineering team depends on
• Lead and monitor the successful development and delivery of team projects and operations 
• Continuously develop cross-functional relationships with product, engineering, and key stakeholders across teams and domains
• Mentor and manage engineers from entry-level to senior, and coach and guide direct reports through their career development
• Articulate desired outcomes and empower engineers to develop simple solutions to sophisticated problems
• Build relationships with internal stakeholders such as Data Scientists, Product Managers, Software Engineers, and business leaders to understand data needs and deliver on those needs
• Partner with the VP of Engineering to help determine Engineering team strategy and tackle team-specific or process inefficiencies
• Communicate technical decisions to the right people, resolve blocking issues, and collaborate with other leaders across the organization
• Evaluate and implement new and emerging technology solutions and methodologies to improve and accelerate the Engineering ecosystem 

Who You Are:

• 5+ years experience in software development; proven success contributing to code bases, including Python, C#, Typescript, or similar interpreted programming language
• A minimum of 2+ years experience leading a team of Engineers with a proven ability to coach, mentor, and develop a growing team; proven track record of steering regular one-on-one meetings with direct reports and tailoring their rhythm and content to the needs of the individual
• Deep technical knowledge and experience working in a data-focused organization or a passion for data and analytics
• Experience in AWS or other cloud provider infrastructure including account management, user management, role-based permissions, and infrastructure as code
• A bias for action and a passion for solving problems, often in a changing environment, and the flexibility to adopt new technologies when the time is right
• Familiarity with data-focused tooling at any part of the stack, including Airflow, cloud data warehouses, analytical/BI tooling, and data science tooling 
• Demonstrated proficiency with software engineering methodologies and a disciplined approach to testing and driving reductions in technical debt while ensuring that documentation is prioritized
• Ability to strike a balance between providing tactical, hands-on support with analyzing processes and systems for future optimization
• Experience running Agile or similar project management ceremonies, including efficient daily standups, iteration planning meetings, and retrospectives; ability to convert long-term projects into manageable tickets for engineers with the help of senior staff
• Familiarity with web development at whichever part of the stack and the tools used to serve web applications, including Docker containerization, Kubernetes, and Helm
• A collaborative, curious, and inclusive approach to work and a deep respect for  colleagues
• Experience with Git and version control, specifically in GitHub

• Demonstrated understanding of CI/CD pipelines, why they’re important, and tools like CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins

Our Process

During the interview process, you will be asked questions to describe your background and experience relevant to the position. This may include providing examples of projects you worked on, tools or applications you've used, and knowledge you have applied.  We often look for explanations of "how or why" so it's helpful to have details ready. 

What we offer:

The salary range for this position is $130,000-$150,000.

BlueLabs offers a friendly work environment and competitive benefits package including

• Premier health insurance plan
• 401K matching
• Unlimited vacation
• Paid sick, personal, and volunteer leave
• 15 weeks paid parental leave
• Professional development & learning stipend
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) stipend
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible working hours
• Telecommuting/Remote options
• Pre-tax transportation options 
• And more! 

While we prefer this position to be in the Washington, DC area, we are open to considering candidates from within the U.S. 

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, as a company policy, BlueLabs strongly encourages all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to beginning employment. BlueLabs adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations. Except where prohibited by law, applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment will be required to produce proof of vaccination status prior to their first day of employment; if not the offer may be rescinded or employment terminated. BlueLabs will evaluate requests for reasonable accommodations for applicants unable to be vaccinated due to a religious belief, disability or pregnancy on an individualized basis in accordance with applicable laws.

At BlueLabs, we celebrate, support and thrive on differences. Not only do they benefit our services, products, and community, but most importantly, they are to the benefit of our team. Qualified people of all races, ethnicities, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, gender identities, marital status, religions, veterans statuses, disabilities and any other protected classes are strongly encouraged to apply. As an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer, BlueLabs is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. BlueLabs endeavors to make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified applicants with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If an applicant believes they require such assistance to complete the application or to participate in an interview, or has any questions or concerns, they should contact the Director, People Operations.  BlueLabs participates in E-verify.

About BlueLabs

BlueLabs is a leading provider of analytics services and technology dedicated to helping our partners do the most good with their data. Our team of analysts, scientists, engineers, and strategists hail from diverse backgrounds yet share a passion for using data to solve the world’s greatest social and analytical challenges. Since our inception we’ve worked with more than 400 organizations ranging from government agencies, advocacy groups, unions, political campaigns, and international groups. In addition, we service an ever-expanding portfolio of commercial clients in the automotive, travel, CPG, entertainment, healthcare, media, and telecom industries. Along the way, we’ve developed some of the most innovative tools available in analytics, media optimization, reporting, and influencer outreach.

About The Team:

The Ripple & Data fellow will support the development team of our product and Data teams.

Ripple is a business-to-business technology product that helps our clients identify, engage, and measure impact on influencers who matter to their causes or brands. You will join a small and growing team of data, engineering, and product professionals to help us solve some exciting and challenging problems and to deploy the next generation of Ripple. 

Our Data Department is all about creating efficiency in the analytical process. The team helps ensure data pipelines are up and running, breaks down data silos to ensure we aren’t duplicating acquisition efforts, and creates documentation to help the Insights team better understand the data they are working with. The Data Department is also the go-to for analyzing the value of new data for acquisition and exploring how to better utilize our internal data.

About The Role:

Fellows will be provided a chance to work directly with data scientists, strategists, analysts, and client leads on meaningful, hands-on work, while being guided and supported by their manager. Fellows will also be expected to complete a capstone project as part of their program with BlueLabs.

The Ripple & Data Fellow will learn about building digital products such as Ripple, scaling teams, and collaborating with different departments to create actionable steps forward. They will gain exposure to all parts of product and project development – from ideation to analysis and implementation. With the Data Department, the fellow will learn about tracking internal and client project lifecycles, improving documentation on our data models and long-term priorities, and assisting in the acquisition and ingestion of new data sets.

The Ripple & Data Fellow reports to the Ripple Product Manager. 

The Ripple & Data Fellow will work with BlueLabs for 12 weeks at 40 hours per week, from June 5, 2023 - August 25, 2023.

In this position you will:

• Conduct in-depth product specific research and analysis to improve our Ripple influencer tool and build internal product competency
• Work with Engineering and Data Science team members to translate business requests into actionable technical requirements
• Assist in prioritizing feature development recommendations based on customer and internal end-user feedback
• Assist with routine and new data acquisition and processing tasks
• Help maintain data processes using tools like dbt, airflow, astronomer, others
• Contribute to documentation of our models, data assets, and deliverables
• Monitor the quality of our data and data processing
• Help track progress on deliverables and internal department priorities

What we are seeking:

• Genuine passion for working with a progressive social impact organization
• Experience  in working with technical and non-technical teams to build and deploy digital products, as well as improve data acquisition and processing
• Experience working with a team to follow project management guidelines (deliverable schedules, meeting cadences, etc.)
• Experience with presentation and spreadsheet software (Excel, PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Sheets, Google Slides, etc.)
• Exposure to data process orchestration tools, such as dbt, airflow, others
• Exposure to Github or another version control software
• Experience collaborating to solve a data processing challenge
• Enthusiasm to learn in a hands-on and fast-paced environment

What we offer

BlueLabs offers a friendly work environment and competitive benefits package including:

• $25/ hour
• Premier health insurance plan
• Paid time off
• Professional development and learning stipend
• Flexible working hours
• Remote options
• And more! 
  

BlueLabs is willing to complete paperwork for successful candidates who are students and are interested in earning academic credit for the fellowship experience with us.

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, as a company policy, BlueLabs strongly encourages all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to beginning employment. BlueLabs adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations. Except where prohibited by law, applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment will be required to produce proof of vaccination status prior to their first day of employment; if not the offer may be rescinded or employment terminated. BlueLabs will evaluate requests for reasonable accommodations for applicants unable to be vaccinated due to a religious belief, disability or pregnancy on an individualized basis in accordance with applicable laws.

At BlueLabs, we celebrate, support and thrive on differences. Not only do they benefit our services, products, and community, but most importantly, they are to the benefit of our team. Qualified people of all races, ethnicities, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, gender identities, marital status, religions, veterans statuses, disabilities and any other protected classes are strongly encouraged to apply. As an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer, BlueLabs is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. BlueLabs endeavors to make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified applicants with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If an applicant believes they require such assistance to complete the application or to participate in an interview, or has any questions or concerns, they should contact the Director, People Operations.  BlueLabs participates in E-verify.EEO is the Law.

Collection of Personal Information Notice:

As you are likely aware, by submitting your job application, you are submitting personal information to ourcompany. We collect various categories of personal information, including identifiers, protected classifications,professional or employment related information and sensitive personal information. We may retain and use thisinformation for up to three years, in order to come to a decision on whether or not you are a good fit for ourcompany. We may also retain or use some of this information to comply with any requirements under law, or forpurposes of defending ourselves in any litigation. We do not use this information for any other purpose, or shareit with third parties, unless you become an employee. To learn more, or to see our fully Notice to Job Applicants,pleaseclick here.

About BlueLabs

BlueLabs is a leading provider of analytics services and technology dedicated to helping our partners do the most good with their data. Our team of analysts, scientists, engineers, and strategists hail from diverse backgrounds yet share a passion for using data to solve the world’s greatest social and analytical challenges. Since our inception we’ve worked with more than 400 organizations ranging from government agencies, advocacy groups, unions, political campaigns, and international groups. In addition, we service an ever-expanding portfolio of commercial clients in the automotive, travel, CPG, entertainment, healthcare, media, and telecom industries. Along the way, we’ve developed some of the most innovative tools available in analytics, media optimization, reporting, and influencer outreach.

About the team:

The Insights division creates and manages the underlying data that drives our day-to-day work. This is a new team at BlueLabs, created to meet our organization’s evolving client base and business needs, to ensure that BlueLabs is providing the most innovative data and analysis to our clients, all while developing and coaching team members to grow and respond to our company’s goals.

The BlueLabs Insights practice works with non-profit, political, and private sector clients to provide them with high quality analysis to better understand the environment they operate in and inform future decision making.

About the role:

As a Reporting Analyst, you will help the Insights team create and maintain business intelligence reports. You should have an eye for design that creates engaging interactive dashboards for users. Additionally, the Reporting Analyst should have knowledge of how to take raw data and transform it into effective base tables containing KPIs to be used in reports. You would be a relied upon expert for internal teams on all things reporting and would engage with other team members on reporting best practices, report troubleshooting, and general training on report development. The Reporting Analyst reports to the Director, Data.

In this position you will:

• Develop, maintain, and manage dashboards in Tableau and other BI solutions.
• Work with cross functional stakeholders, both internal and external to gather requirements for dashboards, and work iteratively with those stakeholders to ensure BI solutions met their needs
• Build and automate data pipelines used in reporting using SQL
• Advise and train others internally on best practices when building dashboards and dashboard pipelines
• Provide technical expertise in areas of report architecture, design, and implementation
• Create documentation for BI dashboards and pipelines detailing data sources, KPI calculations, and dashboard elements and functions
• Hold trainings for dashboard users on basic functionality, information covered, and limitations of dashboards
• Create and implement processes to ensure data accuracy and accuracy of report filters, calculated fields, and other functions
• Optimize reports to improve load times
• Troubleshoot issues with dashboards with team members
• Ensure consistency by adhering to a set of software coding and style guides
• Research trends in the BI and reporting space to ensure that BlueLabs resources are as up to date as needed and teams are aware of new or upcoming data visualization solutions

What we are seeking:

• At least 2 years of experience developing business intelligence dashboards using Tableau.  This experience should include requirements gathering, design, and final dashboard implementation
• At least 2 years of experience using SQL to analyze data and create datasets to be used in dashboard development
• Ability to synthesize complex business requirements to technical specifications into visualizations that provide insightful analysis
• Experience creating documentation about dashboards including written documents and live training sessions
• Familiarity with Tableau server monitoring and administration
• Experience effectively troubleshooting issues with dashboards and implementing solutions to fix issue or improve performance
• Experience working with geospatial data
• Familiarity with Git, or experience with other version control system
• Effective communication and collaboration skills when working with team members of varied backgrounds, roles, and functions
• A high attention to detail and ability to effectively manage and prioritize several tasks or projects concurrently

You may also have experience:

• Working with other business intelligence software like PowerBi, or Looker
• Working on political campaigns or advocacy
• Working with voter files or large consumer datasets
• Working with tools such as Phoenix, DNC Toolbox, VAN, PDI, or common finance, digital or field campaign platforms and their APIs
• Experience working in modern data processing stacks using tools like Apache Airflow and dbt
• Experience with graphic editing tools like Adobe Photoshop or GIMP

BlueLabs offers a friendly work environment and competitive benefits package including:

• Salary: $75,000 annually
• Premier health, dental, and vision insurance plans
• 401K matching
• Unlimited vacation
• Paid sick, personal, and volunteer leave
• 15 weeks paid parental leave
• Professional development & learning stipend
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) stipend
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible working hours
• Telecommuting/Remote options
• Pre-tax transportation options
• And more!

While we prefer this position to be in the Washington, DC area, we are open to considering candidates from within the U.S.

The salary range for candidates who meet the minimum posted qualifications reflects the Company’s good faith understanding and belief as to the wage range, and is accurate as of the date of this job posting.

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, as a company policy, BlueLabs strongly encourages all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to beginning employment. BlueLabs adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations. Except where prohibited by law, applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment will be required to produce proof of vaccination status prior to their first day of employment; if not the offer may be rescinded or employment terminated. BlueLabs will evaluate requests for reasonable accommodations for applicants unable to be vaccinated due to a religious belief, disability or pregnancy on an individualized basis in accordance with applicable laws.

At BlueLabs, we celebrate, support and thrive on differences. Not only do they benefit our services, products, and community, but most importantly, they are to the benefit of our team. Qualified people of all races, ethnicities, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, gender identities, marital status, religions, veterans statuses, disabilities and any other protected classes are strongly encouraged to apply. As an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer, BlueLabs is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. BlueLabs endeavors to make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified applicants with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If an applicant believes they require such assistance to complete the application or to participate in an interview, or has any questions or concerns, they should contact the Director, People Operations.  BlueLabs participates in E-verify. EEO is the Law.

Collection of Personal Information Notice:

As you are likely aware, by submitting your job application, you are submitting personal information to our company. We collect various categories of personal information, including identifiers, protected classifications, professional or employment related information and sensitive personal information. We may retain and use this information for up to three years, in order to come to a decision on whether or not you are a good fit for our company. We may also retain or use some of this information to comply with any requirements under law, or for purposes of defending ourselves in any litigation. We do not use this information for any other purpose, or share it with third parties, unless you become an employee. To learn more, or to see our fully Notice to Job Applicants, please click here.

About BlueLabs

BlueLabs is a leading provider of analytics services and technology for a variety of industry clients: including government, business, and political campaigns. We help our clients optimize their engagements with individual customers, supporters, and stakeholders to achieve their goals. Simply put: we help our partners do the most good by getting the most from their data. 

Today, our team of data analysts, scientists, engineers, and strategists come together from diverse backgrounds to share a passion for using data to solve the world’s greatest social and analytical challenges. We’ve served more than 400 organizations ranging from government agencies, advocacy groups, political campaigns, and businesses. Along the way, we’ve developed some of the most innovative tools available in analytics, media optimization, reporting, and influencer outreach-- serving a diverse set of industries, including the automotive, travel, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, healthcare, media, telecom, and more.

About the team:

The BlueLabs Civic Technology practice revolutionizes the way government agencies use data to streamline operations, interact with citizens, and react to their biggest challenges. Our team develops deep expertise within the areas our clients care about most, then builds data analytics systems that create impact at scale. We work closely with internal government innovation groups, and build on the analytics methodology pioneered in e-commerce, advocacy, politics, and consumer finance.

You will work on a fast-paced, impact-driven project team charged with intelligently improving the operations powering the policies and programs that Americans interact with on a daily basis. Our work builds the frameworks and infrastructure that allows agencies to deal with big public health challenges. We bring definition to challenging problems, creatively identify data sources, then design analytics that accurately measure impact and move the needle every day. We work in changing, ambiguous environments, so we embrace nuance, inclusivity, and complexity to deliver programs that work for the diverse groups of individuals who rely on us.

About the role:

You will play a critical role in supporting a digital marketing solution for several high-profile websites run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The Data Ingestion Pipeline Developer will work with a team to produce dynamic, personalized email and SMS campaigns to deliver information relevant to each customer. You should have experience working in a cross-functional team of partners in which you were responsible for driving ____.

In this position you will:

• Work closely with a team of  ingestion/application integration engineers (or ‘pipeline developers’?) with responsibility for the architecture, deployment, and operations of the infrastructure used by wider team
• Work closely with data analysts and data scientists to identify and effectively respond to their specific needs, especially related to client deliverables
• Develop, test, and operationalize the data infrastructure that will contribute to client-facing products, such as writing and reviewing API endpoints.
• Contribute to the maintenance of a well documented, consistent codebase.
• Provide visibility into data transformations by designing and implementing data tests throughout existing pipelines.
• Extract business logic (ETL/ELT, metrics, metadata) from current data systems into portable cloud-agnostic layers.
• Analyze, build, and deploy data models, including relational models for data warehousing.
• Produce scalable, replicable code and engineering solutions that help automate repetitive data management tasks.
• Support your teammates in implementing efficient and resilient data processes, with improvements such as optimization, good error handling, and incoming data checks.
• Ensure the reliability, security, and performance of our program team infrastructure and our compliance with client policies and procedures, including remediating findings from regular systems auditing
• Perform such other reasonable tasks as may be assigned by management

What we are seeking:

• 3+ years of experience as a contributor to technical projects, such as working with complex data structures and pipelines 
• Experience delivering on client priorities that operate on a regular deployment schedule while reacting to urgent ad hoc needs
• Ability to manage your individual priorities and comfortably context-switch between active development, client discussion, and issue response
• Effective communication skills when working with team members of varied backgrounds, roles, and functions
• Experience performing nontrivial deployments of web applications and/or data pipelines and supported production infrastructures
• Experience designing data models that keep in mind the upstream and downstream system dependencies
• Advanced understanding of how to test and debug scripts that process and manipulate data using SQL, R, and/or Python
• Extensive experience withAWS(our primary cloud provider)
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• Add more about Tech Stack? Terraform, containerization and cluster orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes, Linux systems, networking and security, Vertica,Redshift, Snowflake, Airflow or Databricks, Oracle or Postgresql, CI/CD environments using Jenkins and CircleCI, Apache Airflow, AWS Glue, dbt; Spark, Hadoop,Jupyter 
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• Passion in applying your skills to our social mission to problem-solve and collaborate on improving the functions of government agencies
• The ability to successfully attain and maintain a Federal Public Trust background investigation that our government clients require; this includes a requirement that the individual has U.S. Citizenship or U.S. residency for three of the past five years

What recruitment looks like:

During the interview process, you will be asked questions to describe your background and experience relevant to the position. This may include providing examples of projects you worked on, tools or applications you've used, and knowledge you have applied. We often look for explanations of "how or why" so it's helpful to have details ready. The process will also include a technical assessment. 

What We Offer:

BlueLabs offers a friendly work environment and competitive benefits package including:

• Premier health insurance plan
• 401K matching
• Unlimited vacation leave
• Paid sick, personal, and volunteer leave
• 13 paid holidays
• 15 weeks paid parental leave
• Professional development stipend & tuition reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Supportive & collaborative culture 
• Flexible working hours
• Remote friendly (within the U.S.)
• And more! 

The salary for this position is $95,000+ annually. 

While we have an office in Washington, DC, we are open to considering candidates from within the U.S. 

At BlueLabs, we celebrate, support and thrive on differences. Not only do they benefit our services, products, and community, but most importantly, they are to the benefit of our team. Qualified people of all races, ethnicities, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, gender identities, marital status, religions, veterans statuses, disabilities and any other protected classes are strongly encouraged to apply. As an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer, BlueLabs is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. BlueLabs endeavors to make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified applicants with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If an applicant believes they require such assistance to complete the application or to participate in an interview, or has any questions or concerns, they should contact the Director, People Operations.  BlueLabs participates in E-verify.EEO is the Law(Link to external DOL site)

About BlueLabs

BlueLabs is a leading provider of analytics services and technology dedicated to helping our partners do the most good with their data. Our team of analysts, scientists, engineers, and strategists hail from diverse backgrounds yet share a passion for using data to solve the world’s greatest social and analytical challenges. Since our inception we’ve worked with more than 400 organizations ranging from government agencies, advocacy groups, unions, political campaigns, and international groups. In addition, we service an ever-expanding portfolio of commercial clients in the automotive, travel, CPG, entertainment, healthcare, media, and telecom industries. Along the way, we’ve developed some of the most innovative tools available in analytics, media optimization, reporting, and influencer outreach.

About the team:

The Insights division creates and manages the underlying data that drives our day-to-day work. This is a new team at BlueLabs, created to meet our organization’s evolving client base and business needs, to ensure that BlueLabs is providing the most innovative data and analysis to our clients, all while developing and coaching team members to grow and respond to our company’s goals.

The BlueLabs Insights practice works with non-profit, political, and private sector clients to provide them with high quality analysis to better understand the environment they operate in and inform future decision making.

The Data Department is all about creating efficiency in the analytical process. The team helps ensure data pipelines are up and running, breaks down data silos to ensure we aren’t duplicating acquisition efforts, and creates documentation to help the Insights team better understand the data they are working with. The Data Department is also the go to for analyzing the value of new data for acquisition and exploring how to better utilize our internal data.

About the role:

As a Data Engineer I, you will help the Data Department and Insights project teams establish and maintain data pipelines for internal data sources and data sources related to our client engagements. The Data Engineer I is critical to our client work which requires proactive and continuous improvement as well as  prompt responsiveness to changing circumstances – particularly in handling data quality issues and adjusting the team’s end-to-end pipeline deployments. Your track record stepping into this role should reflect domain knowledge in data ingestion and transformation, including experience adapting to changing technologies and/or client priorities.  The Data Engineer reports to the Director, Data.

In this position you will:

• Analyze, establish and maintain data pipelines that regularly deliver transformed data to data warehouses
• Read in data, process and clean it, transform and recode it, merge different data sets together, reformat data between wide and long, etc.
• Create documentation for data pipelines and data sets
• Work closely with data analysts to understand, identify and effectively respond to their specific needs
• Coordinate with the vendors, clients, and other stakeholders as needed to stand-up or respond to issues with data pipelines
• Perform one-off data manipulation and analysis on a wide variety of campaigns data
• Produce scalable, replicable code and engineering solutions that help automate repetitive data management tasks
• Make recommendations and provide guidance on ways to make programs, campaigns, and data collection more efficient and effective
• Ensure a high-level of data accuracy through regular quality control

What we are seeking:

• About 2+ years of experience working with data pipeline solutions; beyond exact years, we seek candidates whose experience working with data pipelines provides the ability to proactively advise and then deploy solutions for our client based teams
• Experience processing data using scripting languages like Python or R
• Understanding of how to manipulate data using SQL or Python
• Experience designing data models that accounts for upstream and downstream system dependencies
• Experience working in modern data processing stacks using tools like Apache Airflow, AWS Glue, and dbt
• Experience databases such as Amazon Redshift, Vertica, BigQuery, or Snowflake and/or experience writing complex analytics queries in a general purpose database such as Oracle or Postgresql
• Familiarity with Git, or experience with other version control system
• A high attention to detail and ability to effectively manage and prioritize several tasks or projects concurrently
• Effective communication and collaboration skills when working with team members of varied backgrounds, roles, and functions
• Passion in applying your skills to our social mission to problem-solve and collaborate within a cross-functional team environment
• Ability to diagnose and improve database and query performance issues

You may also have experience:

• Working on political campaigns or advocacy
• Working with voter files or large consumer datasets
• Working with geospatial data
• Working with tools such as Phoenix, DNC Toolbox, VAN, PDI, or common finance, digital or field campaign platforms and their APIs
• Working with business intelligence software like Tableau, PowerBi, or Data Studio

What we offer:

BlueLabs offers a friendly work environment and competitive benefits package including:

• Salary: $85,000 annually
• Premier health, dental, and vision insurance plans
• 401K matching
• Unlimited vacation
• Paid sick, personal, and volunteer leave
• 15 weeks paid parental leave
• Professional development & learning stipend
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) stipend
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible working hours
• Telecommuting/Remote options
• Pre-tax transportation options
• And more!

While we prefer this position to be in the Washington, DC area, we are open to considering candidates from within the U.S.

The salary range for candidates who meet the minimum posted qualifications reflects the Company’s good faith understanding and belief as to the wage range, and is accurate as of the date of this job posting.

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, as a company policy, BlueLabs strongly encourages all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to beginning employment. BlueLabs adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations. Except where prohibited by law, applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment will be required to produce proof of vaccination status prior to their first day of employment; if not the offer may be rescinded or employment terminated. BlueLabs will evaluate requests for reasonable accommodations for applicants unable to be vaccinated due to a religious belief, disability or pregnancy on an individualized basis in accordance with applicable laws.

At BlueLabs, we celebrate, support and thrive on differences. Not only do they benefit our services, products, and community, but most importantly, they are to the benefit of our team. Qualified people of all races, ethnicities, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, gender identities, marital status, religions, veterans statuses, disabilities and any other protected classes are strongly encouraged to apply. As an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer, BlueLabs is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. BlueLabs endeavors to make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified applicants with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If an applicant believes they require such assistance to complete the application or to participate in an interview, or has any questions or concerns, they should contact the Director, People Operations. BlueLabs participates in E-verify.EEO is the Law.

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Who You Are

You are a mission-driven individual and believe in working to close the educational opportunity gap through the use of data and technical solutions. You are excited about bringing order to disparate data, and writing data pipelines, and don’t mind being relentless in pursuing data accuracy. You’ve previously worked with SQL and Python and written code that interacts with APIs.

You are an optimistic problem-solver. You believe that together we can create real solutions that help the entire education sector move forward despite its complexity. You are excited to join a small, but growing team working on an early-stage product and are looking forward to working on many different pieces of that product. You are open to feedback, bring your best every day, and are ready to grow in all areas of your work. You want to join a team of folks who share your vision for mission-driven work at the intersection of education and technology.  Finally, you know that sharing often is key to this work, and are ready to document everything that you do so that data people in schools everywhere can benefit.

Experience and Skills

You are a good fit if you:

• Have strong computer science fundamentals and experience with Python and writing analytical SQL
• Consider yourself as having a very high attention to detail
• Have strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical people
• Are passionate about making an impact in K-12 education
• Are comfortable doing many different types of tasks and having to context switch between tasks relativity often
• Are passionate about building the best version of whatever you’re working on
• Are highly motivated to work autonomously, with strong organizational and time management skills

You’ll have an edge if you:

• Have worked as a data analyst or data engineer in the past and are familiar with validating data and tools like Pandas, Jupyter Notebooks, Google BigQuery, and Google Data Studio
• Have experience building pipelines using Apache Airflow
• Have worked in K-12 education in the past

Responsibilities

The Junior Developer’s primary professional responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Implementing and maintaining Landing Zone for new and returning customers
• Creating, troubleshooting, and maintaining data processing pipelines in Apache Airflow (ETL work)
• Writing SQL queries against many different types of databases (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres) to extract data
• Running reports and exports in edTech source systems as well as Landing Zone infrastructure to perform data validation checks and communicate those back to our customers
• Maintaining Landing Zone documentation to ensure it is always up-to-date and reflects how integrations function.
• Deploying code updates across the Landing Zone customer base
• Assisting in the deployment of infrastructure on the Google Cloud Platform for new customers
• Assisting in the development of a historical/longitudinal data storage system (data warehouse)
• Responding to customer support tickets (this is a shared responsibility on our team)
• Working with internal systems such as JIRA, Asana, Slack to stay organized and ensure communication with team members
• Other duties as assigned 

What to expect in the hiring process:

• An introductory phone call with a Manager
• A coding project that will take about 2 hours. This will be in Python and be related to processing data.
• A project review and feedback call with two developers
• Final round interviews, likely including our Executive Director

The range for this position will be $58,500 to $75,000.  Salary is commensurate with education and experience.  

About InnovateEDU

InnovateEDU is a non-profit whose mission is to eliminate the opportunity gap by accelerating innovation in standards-aligned, next-generation learning models and tools that serve, inform, and enhance teaching and learning. InnovateEDU is committed to massively disrupting K-12 public education by focusing on developing scalable tools and practices that leverage innovation, technology, and new human capital systems to improve education for all students and close the opportunity gap.

About the Project

InnovateEDU strives to create real tooling and projects that greatly assist a school/district/state in moving toward embracing data standards, a data-driven culture, and data interoperability. Landing Zone, a project at InnovateEDU, provides school districts with a comprehensive cloud-based data infrastructure through the implementation of an Ed-Fi Operational Data Store (ODS), data mart for analytics in Google BigQuery, and the necessary data workflows in Apache Airflow to connect previously siloed, disparate educational data systems. Landing Zone simplifies a district's process to implement an Ed-Fi ODS, connecting Ed-Fi certified data sources and consuming non-Ed-Fi certified data once it has been aligned to the standard. This project heavily focuses on data engineering, backend work, dev ops, and data analytics tools to verify data.

Application Instructions

Please submit an application on this platform. 

About BlueLabs

BlueLabs is a leading provider of analytics services and technology for a variety of industry clients: including government, business, and political campaigns. We help our clients optimize their engagements with individual customers, supporters, and stakeholders to achieve their goals. Simply put: we help our partners do the most good by getting the most from their data. 

Today, our team of data analysts, scientists, engineers, and strategists come together from diverse backgrounds to share a passion for using data to solve the world’s greatest social and analytical challenges. We’ve served more than 400 organizations ranging from government agencies, advocacy groups, unions, political campaigns, international groups, and companies. Along the way, we’ve developed some of the most innovative tools available in analytics, media optimization, reporting, and influencer outreach-- serving a diverse set of industries, including the automotive, travel, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, healthcare, media, telecom, and more.

About the team:

The Insights division creates and manages the underlying data that drives our day-to-day work. This is a new team at BlueLabs, created to meet our organization’s evolving client base and business needs, to ensure that BlueLabs is providing the most innovative data and analysis to our clients, all while developing and coaching team members to grow and respond to our company’s goals.

The BlueLabs Insights practice works with non-profit, political, and private sector clients to provide them with high quality analysis to better understand the environment they operate in and inform future decision making. 

Ripple is a proprietary, business-to-business technology product that helps our clients identify, engage, and measure impact on influencers who matter to their causes or brands. You will join a small and growing team of data, engineering, and product professionals to help us solve some exciting and challenging problems and to deploy the next generation of Ripple. 

About the role:

As a Data Engineer, you will help the Ripple team establish and maintain data pipelines for internal data sources and data sources related to our client engagements. The Data Engineer is critical to our client work, which requires proactive and continuous improvement as well as  prompt responsiveness to changing circumstances – particularly in handling data quality issues and adjusting the team’s end-to-end pipeline deployments. Your track record stepping into this role should reflect domain knowledge in data ingestion and transformation, including experience adapting to changing technologies and/or client priorities.  The Data Engineer reports to the Ripple Product Manager. 

In this position you will:

• Analyze, establish and maintain data pipelines that regularly deliver transformed data to data warehouses
• Read in data, process and clean it, transform and recode it, merge different data sets together, reformat data between wide and long, etc.
• Create documentation for data pipelines and data sets
• Work closely with data analysts to understand, identify and effectively respond to their specific needs
• Coordinate with the vendors, clients, and other stakeholders as needed to stand-up or respond to issues with data pipelines
• Perform one-off data manipulation and analysis on a wide variety of data sets
• Produce scalable, replicable code and engineering solutions that help automate repetitive data management tasks
• Make recommendations and provide guidance on ways to make data collection more efficient and effective
• Develop and streamline our internal data resources into more efficient and easier to understand taxonomies
• Ensure a high-level of data accuracy through regular quality control

What we are seeking:

• About 2+ years of experience working with data pipeline solutions; beyond exact years, we seek candidates whose experience working with data pipelines provides the ability to proactively advise and then deploy solutions for our client based teams
• Experience processing data using scripting languages like Python or R, or compiled languages like Java, C++, or Scala. Python preferred
• Understanding of how to manipulate data using SQL or Python
• Experience designing data models that accounts for upstream and downstream system dependencies
• Experience working in modern data processing stacks using tools like Apache Airflow, AWS Glue, and dbt
• Experience with an MPP database such as Amazon Redshift, Vertica, BigQuery, or Snowflake and/or experience writing complex analytics queries in a general purpose database such as Oracle or Postgresql
• Familiarity with Git, or experience with other version control system
• A high attention to detail and ability to effectively manage and prioritize several tasks or projects concurrently 
• Effective communication and collaboration skills when working with team members of varied backgrounds, roles, and functions
• Passion in applying your skills to our social mission to problem-solve and collaborate within a cross-functional team environment
• Ability to diagnose and improve database and query performance issues

You may also have experience:

• Working on political campaigns or in progressive advocacy
• Working with voter files or large consumer datasets
• Working with geospatial data
• Working with business intelligence software like Tableau, PowerBi, or Data Studio

Recruitment process

We strive to hire efficiently and transparently. We expect to hire this position in January 2023. To get there, we anticipate the successful candidate will complete three interviews (HR 15 minutes, technical interview 45 minutes, and team interview 60 minutes), all virtually. 

What We Offer:

BlueLabs offers a friendly work environment and competitive benefits package including:

• Premier health insurance plan
• 401K matching
• Unlimited vacation leave
• Paid sick, personal, and volunteer leave
• 15 weeks paid parental leave
• Professional development & learning stipend
• Macbook Pro laptop & tech accessories
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) stipend for mobile device
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Supportive & collaborative culture 
• Flexible working hours
• Telecommuting/Remote options
• Pre-tax transportation options 
• Lunches and snacks
• And more! 

The salary for this position is$85,000annually. 

While we prefer this position to be in the Washington, DC area, we are open to considering candidates from within the U.S. 

At BlueLabs, we celebrate, support and thrive on differences. Not only do they benefit our services, products, and community, but most importantly, they are to the benefit of our team. Qualified people of all races, ethnicities, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, gender identities, marital status, religions, veterans statuses, disabilities and any other protected classes are strongly encouraged to apply. As an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer, BlueLabs is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. BlueLabs endeavors to make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified applicants with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If an applicant believes they require such assistance to complete the application or to participate in an interview, or has any questions or concerns, they should contact the Director, People Operations.  BlueLabs participates in E-verify.

About BlueLabs

BlueLabs is a leading provider of analytics services and technology for a variety of industry clients: including government, business, and political campaigns. We help our clients optimize their engagements with individual customers, supporters, and stakeholders to achieve their goals. Simply put: we help our partners do the most good by getting the most from their data. 

Today, our team of data analysts, scientists, engineers, and strategists come together from diverse backgrounds to share a passion for using data to solve the world’s greatest social and analytical challenges. We’ve served more than 400 organizations ranging from government agencies, advocacy groups, unions, political campaigns, international groups, and companies. Along the way, we’ve developed some of the most innovative tools available in analytics, media optimization, reporting, and influencer outreach-- serving a diverse set of industries, including the automotive, travel, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, healthcare, media, telecom, and more.

About the team:

The Engineering team at BlueLabs supports application access, asset management, and broader Operational logistics. We support a number of internal stakeholders including the Data Science, Insights, Civic Technology, and Ripple teams. Our work supports the underlying infrastructure and data pipelines which allow the rest of the teams conduct innovative analysis, propose improvements in government operations, and hone messaging for important campaigns. We work in fast-changing, ambiguous environment; so we embrace nuance, inclusivity, and complexity to deliver programs that work for the diverse groups of individuals who rely on us. You’ll be working with a team of professionals with various work backgrounds and experiences who seek to make Blue Labs a more efficient, secure, and positive place to work.

As a member of the team, you might answer questions like:

• What is a current need at BlueLabs, and how can we build a process that addresses it?
• How can we make existing systems more efficient and values-driven?
• How can I create a plan that sets BlueLabs, its staff, and its clients up for success?

About the role:

In this position you will join BlueLabs’ engineering team and help us develop and maintain various software products. Employing a balance of tactical problem solving and strategic future-proofing, you will ensure our teams’ and clients’ technology needs are met and advanced. This position reports directly to the Engineering Manager. 

In this position you will:

• Be the primary point of responsibility for the design of AWS architecture at BlueLabs
• Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS
• Work collaboratively with data engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
• Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure defined as code
• Maintain two fairly large Python command-line utilities/packages:https://github.com/bluelabsio/records-moverandhttps://github.com/bluelabsio/db-facts 
• Maintain a slew of smaller command-line utilities that perform a wide variety of tasks, especially in the creation and deletion of user accounts, database maintenance, etc.
• Test and debug programs
• Improve functionality of existing systems
• Implement security and data protection solutions
• Assess and prioritize feature requests
• Coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions
• Such other reasonable tasks as may be assigned by management. 

What we are seeking:

• Experience working in a data-focused organization
• Understand the work of data engineers, analytics engineers, data scientists, and analysts–directexperience in one of these roles is not required.
• Have deep technology knowledge and enjoy the pursuit of solving problems, often in a changing environment
• Understand how to support a client-facing team, which often requires deadlines, client deliverables, and solutions that impact a diverse group of stakeholders
• Enjoy balancing your day between tactical, hands-on support and problem solving with analyzing processes and systems for future optimization
• Have a passion for evolving technology and finding the right fit for organizational mission
• Have deep respect for your colleagues no matter their role and you strive to exceed expectations with each project and problem you solve
• Approach your work in a collaborative, curious, and inclusive style, seeking others input, perspectives, and knowledge
• Seek to learn new technologies and skills, leveraging newly acquired knowledge to support and share with the team

Our codebase is primarily in Python so experience writing and debugging Python is a must. Below is a list of systems we currently use. Experience using comparable systems is acceptable. 

• IaC:Terraform
• DevOps:GitOps + CircleCI + GitHub
• Access Control:AWS multi-account IAM patterns
• AWS Services:AWS Redshift + RDS + EKS + VPC + VPN
• Stack:Kubernetes 
• Tools:project tools (Asana/Jira)
• One popular Python web-framework (like Django, Flask or Pyramid; we use Flask), and knowledge of Object-relational Mappers (ORMs)
• Object-Oriented Programming in a Design Patterns framework
• The Boto3 Python package, AWS CLI, and other tools that interact with AWS infrastructure; experience with similar cloud tools acceptable
• AWS Redshift, Apache Airflow, Numpy, Pandas, SQL, and other tools that data teams regularly use
• User authentication and authorization services
• Python testing frameworks such as unittest, Pytest, PyUnit
• Git, Github, and CI/CD development
• Python debugging tools beyond the print statement
• Bash scripting

You may also have experience with:

• Go
• Ruby

What We Offer:

BlueLabs offers a friendly work environment and competitive benefits package including:

• Premier health insurance plan
• 401K matching
• Unlimited vacation leave
• Paid sick, personal, and volunteer leave
• 13 paid holidays
• 15 weeks paid parental leave
• Professional development stipend & tuition reimbursement
• Macbook Pro laptop & tech accessories
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) stipend for mobile device
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Supportive & collaborative culture 
• Flexible working hours
• Remote friendly (within the U.S.)
• Pre-tax transportation options for commuting to our office in Washington, DC
• Lunches and snacks
• And more! 

The salary for this position is $120,000+ annually. 

While we have an office in Washington, DC, we are open to considering candidates from within the U.S. 

At BlueLabs, we celebrate, support and thrive on differences. Not only do they benefit our services, products, and community, but most importantly, they are to the benefit of our team. Qualified people of all races, ethnicities, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, gender identities, marital status, religions, veterans statuses, disabilities and any other protected classes are strongly encouraged to apply. As an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer, BlueLabs is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. BlueLabs endeavors to make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified applicants with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If an applicant believes they require such assistance to complete the application or to participate in an interview, or has any questions or concerns, they should contact the Director, People Operations.  BlueLabs participates in E-verify.EEO is the Law(Link to external DOL site)

About InnovateEDU

InnovateEDU is a non-profit whose mission is to eliminate the opportunity gap by accelerating innovation in standards-aligned, next generation learning models and tools that serve, inform, and enhance teaching and learning. InnovateEDU is committed to massively disrupting K-12 public education by focusing on the development of scalable tools and practices that leverage innovation, technology, and new human capital systems to improve education for all students and close the opportunity gap.

About the Project

InnovateEDU strives to create real tooling and projects that greatly assist a school/district/state in moving toward embracing data standards, a data-driven culture, and data interoperability. Landing Zone, a project at InnovateEDU, provides school districts with a comprehensive cloud based data infrastructure through the implementation of an Ed-Fi Operational Data Store (ODS), data mart for analytics in Google BigQuery, and the necessary data workflows in Apache Airflow to connect previously siloed, disparate educational data systems. Landing Zone simplifies the process a district must go through to implement an Ed-Fi ODS, connecting Ed-Fi certified data sources, and consuming non Ed-Fi certified data once it has been aligned to the standard. This project has a heavy focus on data engineering, backend work, dev ops, and using data analytics tools to verify data.

Who You Are

You are a mission-driven individual and believe in working to close the educational opportunity gap through the use of data and technical solutions. You are excited about bringing order to disparate data, and writing data pipelines, and don’t mind being relentless in pursuing data accuracy. You’ve previously worked with SQL and Python and written code that interacts with APIs.

You are an optimistic problem-solver. You believe that together we can create real solutions that help the entire education sector move forward despite its complexity. You are excited to join a small but growing team working on an early-stage product and are looking forward to working on many different pieces of that product. You are open to feedback, bring your best every day, and are ready to grow in all areas of your work. You want to join a team of folks who share your vision for mission-driven work at the intersection of education and technology.  Finally, you know that sharing often is key to this work, and are ready to document everything that you do so that data people in schools everywhere can benefit. This is not a big data project; we have smaller amounts of data across many domains.  

Experience and Skills

You are a good fit if you:

• Have worked as a data analyst or data engineer in the past and are familiar with validating data and tools like Google BigQuery and Google Data Studio
• Have strong computer science fundamentals and experience with Python and specifically with Apache Airflow 
• Experience with dbt
• Experience with ETL and tools like Pandas and Jupyter Notebooks, 
• Consider yourself as having a very high attention to detail
• Have strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical people
• Are passionate about making an impact in K-12 education
• Are comfortable doing many different types of tasks and having to context switch between tasks relativity often
• Are passionate about building the best version of whatever you’re working on
• Are highly motivated to work autonomously, with strong organizational and time management skills

You’ll have an edge if you:

• Experience and knowledge of Kubernates, Docker, and Terraform
• Have worked in K-12 education in the past

Responsibilities

The Lead Data Engineer’s primary professional responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Managing and supervising a team of engineers and data analysts
• Establishing a team culture and communication cadence which includes daily standup, code reviews, and ensuring timely customer responses
• Collaborating with the Customer Success Lead and team to ensure cohesion between engineering and implementation
• Leading estimates and work scope development for custom engineering work for customers 
• Mentoring, teaching, and aiding in the professional development of team members
• Implementing and maintaining Landing Zone for new and returning customers
• Leading the creation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of data processing pipelines in Apache Airflow (ETL work)
• Running reports and exports in edTech source systems as well as Landing Zone infrastructure to perform data validation checks and communicate those back to our customers
• Maintaining Landing Zone documentation to ensure it is always up-to-date and reflective of how integrations function
• Deploying code updates across the Landing Zone customer base
• Leading the deployment of infrastructure on the Google Cloud Platform for new customers
• Leading in the development of a historical/longitudinal data storage system (data warehouse)
• Responding to customer support tickets (this is a shared responsibility on our team)
• Working with internal systems such as JIRA, Asana, Slack to stay organized and ensure communication with team members
• Other duties as assigned 

What to expect in the hiring process:

• An introductory phone call with a Manager
• A coding project that will take about 2 hours. This will be in Python and be related to processing data
• A project review and feedback call with the team 
• Final round interviews, likely including our Executive Director

The range for this position will be $110,000 to $148,000.  Salary is commensurate with education and experience.  

Application Instructions

Please submit an application on this platform.Applications without both a resume and cover letter will not be considered.

About BlueLabs

BlueLabs is a leading provider of analytics services and technology for a variety of industry clients: including government, business, and political campaigns. We help our clients optimize their engagements with individual customers, supporters, and stakeholders to achieve their goals. Simply put: we help our partners do the most good by getting the most from their data. 

Today, our team of data analysts, scientists, engineers, and strategists come together from diverse backgrounds to share a passion for using data to solve the world’s greatest social and analytical challenges. We’ve served more than 400 organizations ranging from government agencies, advocacy groups, political campaigns, and businesses. Along the way, we’ve developed some of the most innovative tools available in analytics, media optimization, reporting, and influencer outreach-- serving a diverse set of industries, including the automotive, travel, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, healthcare, media, telecom, and more.

About the role:

The Vice President, Engineering is a strategic contributor and system administrator of BlueLabs’ data and engineering environments. They will work to ensure all data,  applications, and resources are  available and accessible; and leverage them for client success. Working collaboratively with engineering and data team members, they will also strategize, develop, and implement efficient and secure structures which support our client work.  This position reports to the CEO. 

In this position you will: 

As the VP, Engineering, you will build and lead a division which develops and supports the engineering and technology that powers all of our programs across BlueLabs. In this tactical and strategic position, you will:

• Manage and directly support engineering efforts at BlueLabs across our many disciplines and business areas
• Support strong engineering, management, and mentoring cultures for engineering efforts throughout the company
• Work across departments to implement processes that ensure effective communication, prioritization, and coordination between engineering and other parts of the company 
• Support and advise engineers to make strong technical decisions, through coaching and sometimes lending your expertise
• Roll up your sleeves and make technical contributions that move the ball forward

What we are seeking:

• Commitment to addressing current operational issues and challenges with existing technical infrastructure, while simultaneously planning and building for the future
• A love for tackling big projects head-on, and learning new things. You stay on top of the latest developments in some of our key technology spaces-- such as devops and data engineering
• Strong people management and leadership skills
• A proactive, clear, and effective communication ability, both digitally and verbally; and with both technical and non-technical collaborators
• Experience with data engineering / engineering in a data science context (some examples of technologies we use: AWS Redshift, Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, and Tableau)
• Strong familiarity with production deployments in a cloud environment, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Strong project management experience; ability to keep many different projects and timelines moving forward at once with an eye toward future sustainability: a passion for documentation and collaboration
• Comfort working in a client-oriented consulting environment — sometimes things move fast or unpredictably
• Strong problem solving experience coupled with a proactive outlook
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to manage relationships with a diverse set of colleagues 
• Demonstrated interest in using technology to advance social good in areas like health, education or public sector

What recruitment looks like:

We expect to hire this position by October 2022. To get there, we anticipate the successful candidate will have three interviews with our team. During the interview process, you will be asked questions to describe your background and experience relevant to the position. This may include providing examples of projects you worked on, tools or applications you've used, and knowledge you have applied.  We often look for explanations of "how or why" so it's helpful to have details ready.

What We Offer:

BlueLabs offers a friendly work environment and competitive benefits package including:

• Premier health insurance plan
• 401K matching
• Unlimited vacation leave
• Paid sick, personal, and volunteer leave
• 13 paid holidays
• 15 weeks paid parental leave
• Professional development stipend & tuition reimbursement
• Macbook Pro laptop & tech accessories
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) stipend for mobile device
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Supportive & collaborative culture 
• Flexible working hours
• Remote friendly (within the U.S.)
• Pre-tax transportation options for commuting to our office in Washington, DC
• Lunches and snacks
• And more! 

While we have an office in Washington, DC, we are open to considering candidates from within the U.S. 

At BlueLabs, we celebrate, support and thrive on differences. Not only do they benefit our services, products, and community, but most importantly, they are to the benefit of our team. Qualified people of all races, ethnicities, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, gender identities, marital status, religions, veterans statuses, disabilities and any other protected classes are strongly encouraged to apply. As an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer, BlueLabs is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. BlueLabs endeavors to make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified applicants with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If an applicant believes they require such assistance to complete the application or to participate in an interview, or has any questions or concerns, they should contact the Director, People Operations.  BlueLabs participates in E-verify.EEO is the Law(Link to external DOL site)

Job title: Data Engineer

Department: Engineering

Reporting to: Director of Engineering

Location: Remote - US / Boston, MA

How will you make an impact...

Opensignal is looking for a Data Engineer to join our Engineering team. If you have a passion for solving difficult problems, a desire to continue learning and strong programming fundamentals, then we want to speak with you.

As a Data Engineer, you’ll join a team focused on building data pipelines to support new and existing products as well as optimizing existing processes and integrating new data sets. The candidate will be involved in all aspects of the software development life cycle, including gathering business requirements, analysis, design, development and production support. The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing and supporting highly efficient and scalable MSSQL and Python processes. The developer should be able to work collaboratively with other team members, as well as users for operational support. The candidate must be focused, hard-working and self-motivated, and enjoy working on complex problems.

What you will be doing?

• Support, maintain and evolve existing data pipelines utilizingMSSQL, SSIS, Python. 
• Implement business rule changes and enhancements in existing data pipelines.
• Automate existing processes.
• Document data mappings, data dictionaries, processes, programs and solutions as per established standards for data governance.
• Troubleshoot data issues and defects to determine root cause.
• Perform job monitoring, root cause analysis and resolution, and support production processes.
• Perform tuning of SQL queries, and recommend and implement query tuning techniques
• Recommend corrective action when necessary to improve performance, capture exceptions, and maintain scheduled jobs.
• Assist in data migration needs of the department and company where applicable.
• Develop ETL technical specifications, design, code, test, implement, and support optimal data solutions.
• Create new pipelines in SQL / Python supporting new product development.
• Design and develop SQL Server stored procedures, functions, views, transformation queries and triggers.
• Take directions and complete tasks on-time with minimal supervision.
• Recommend backup strategies for all data migration projects/applications.
• Interact with IT management regarding work assignments and report status.
• Simultaneously work on multiple projects with changing priorities.

Desired Skills & Abilities

• Familiarity with Redshift, Aurora, Airflow, etc is highly desired.
• Experience with AWS Environment or similar Cloud Services is highly preferred.
• Strong data analysis and troubleshooting skills.

• Production support experience.
• Experience in the Telecom/cable industry.

Required Skills & Abilities

• Minimum 5-6 years SQL development experience including design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance of SQL Server processes in both AWS andon-prem servers.
• Basic familiarity with Python. 
• Solid experience developing complex SQL statements, T-SQL wrappers & procedures, SSIS, functions, views, triggers, etc.
• Excellent query-writing skills.
• Strong knowledge of ETL and Data Warehouse development best practices.
• Experience working with high volume data bases.
• Experience in data mapping, data migration and data analysis.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to function effectively in a fast paced, team-oriented work environment.
• Willingness to adapt and learn new technologies and methodologies.

At this time, Opensignal will not sponsor a new applicant for employment sponsorship for this position.

This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

About US

Opensignal is the leading global provider of independent insight and data into network experience and market performance. Our user-centric approach allows communication providers to constantly improve their network and maximise commercial performance.  Leading analysts, investors and financial institutions place a high value on our independent analysis and we are regular contributors to their reports.

Real network experience is our focus and ultimately that’s what influences customer choice. Our mission is to advance connectivity for all and here at Opensignal, the team is leading the industry in enabling operators to link their network experience and market performance in a way that has never before been possible.

With offices in London, Boston and Victoria, British Columbia, we are truly global, with employees working across four continents and representing over 25 nationalities. We are an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. 

Benefits

We believe we are stronger when we not only celebrate our many differences, values, and voices but include them in everyday practice. Having a diverse and inclusive culture is essential, which is why we offer a flexible approach to work-life balance, operating in a remote-hybrid way. We’ll help you get set up with the essentials you need to work from home or the office. We also offer an attractive range of additional benefits, including:

• Competitive compensation packages and global company ownership benefits.
• Comprehensive group benefits package and company sponsored retirement savings plan (details depend on your country of work).
• Professional development opportunities: education reimbursement, facilitator-led training, workshops, knowledge bites (internal learning talks) and more!
• Generous holiday allowance, sick leave, parental leave, flexible working culture and the opportunity to work from abroad.
• Charity matching, paid time off for community volunteering, mentorship, and DE&I program/committees.
• Regular virtual and in-person events and socials.
• We’ll support you to set up an effective home office environment.