Data Architect - Red Stag Fulfillment

Red Stag Fulfillment is a logistics and fulfillment organization built to enable companies to grow and scale their businesses. Headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, Red Stag was born out of eCommerce with one mission: to enable our clients to grow their business by redefining the 3PL experience for both clients and employees. By leveraging technology to ensure accurate, reliable, secure, and fast shipping, we have quickly established ourselves as a world-class fulfillment and logistics company. 

At Red Stag Fulfillment, we understand that our team members are our most important asset. We have grown into one of America’s best order fulfillment companies by building a team of people who are eager to be a part of our growth. To make this happen, our team members show up and give their all every day. Our core values are of paramount importance and inform and guide all our decisions.  

Here at Red Stag:  

• We act like we own it.  
• We sweat the small stuff.  
• We have positive attitudes. 
• We treat everyone with dignity and respect.  
• We always seek to improve. 

Do you love impacting the core of a company’s growth engine and technology? Are you driven to understand and serve others, unwilling to see your team fail, and excited by complex problems? Red Stag’s Technology group is looking for a clever, self-directed, and driven Data Architect who loves computer science, business analytics, and delivering excellent client experiences. Come join a technology team that is tackling some of the biggest business challenges facing Red Stag as we work to serve and scale our clients’ companies.

You’re excited about this role because you’ll…

• Help build a deeply technical environment that intersects the disciplines of Computer Science & Client Experience.
• Work in a fast paced, highly skilled, and results-oriented data analytics group.
• Deliver performance, highly available, scalable, reliable, and secure data analytics services day-to-day.

Your team will thrive as you…

• Translate business objectives into data infrastructure architectures that develop high-quality, low-latency solutions.
• Construct complex dimensional data models and business critical data products used across the organization.
• Develop procedures and automation for data migration and replication via Fivetran, DBT, Airflow, APIs, Python, etc.
• Coach and support Business Analysts growth in data technology best practices.
• Provide day-to-day support in a variety of database technologies including Snowflake, Mysql, & SQL Server.
• Participate in support activities that include on call monitoring of the critical production data systems and taking reactive procedures to provide business continuity.
• Support root cause analysis research and resolution for any production incidents.
• Simplify the existing data architecture, delivering reusable services and cost saving opportunities.
• Research and implement new data & analytics features and emerging technologies.

 We want you on our team because…

• You demonstrate problem-solving, honesty, team-based ambition, strong attention to detail, and high character.
• You think and dream in SQL and data modeling concepts as you learn a business and share the story of its data.
• You are able to learn new technologies and deploy end-to-end solutions quickly and iteratively.
• You are an innovative and organized servant leader who enjoys mentoring others.
• You expand the creativity of others during problem-solving efforts.
• You are skilled at influencing and negotiating successful outcomes in both technical and vendor arenas.
• You make difficult and quick decisions on a daily basis without fear of failure.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• You have 8+ years of data engineering leadership in an enterprise environment.
• You have a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and/or equivalent work experience.

Score bonus points with…

• Your prior work for a digital retail brand and/or in the warehousing / fulfillment / parcel logistics field.
• Your experience with other relational database technologies (e.g. Oracle, AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery, Azure SQL Database), data platform tools (e.g. Databricks, Informatica, Tableau) and/or big data tools (e.g. Posit/Shiny, R, Apache Drill, Kafka, etc.)
• Your history supporting software engineering Object-Oriented programming, Service Oriented Architecture, Web Service technologies (SOAP, REST, etc.)
• Your Cloud Services, Power BI, and/or Database Certification(s).
• Your Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Business Analytics, Mathematics, or related field.

If you have already achieved one or more of the above, fantastic! If not, we are excited to work with you in mastering new skills like these.

Need not apply if…

Finally, while it's essential for us to outline the characteristics and competencies of the perfect candidate, it might be equally important to list the types of candidates who need not apply:

• A "strategic visionary" who disdains getting their hands in the muck of the work.
• An order-taker, paralyzed by indecision until someone directs your day-to-day activity and tells you what to do.
• A maintainer, hoping to execute the established playbook as opposed to helping write it with their team.
• A political animal, who advances via corporate politics rather than value creation
• A head in the sand, who wants to "just do my job" and not actively hunt for ways to improve our business and team.

FLSA Exemption Status: Exempt (Salaried)

Travel Requirement: Some travel to our Sweetwater, TN location

Location: On-site based in Knoxville, TN

Reports To: Chief Information Officer