Director, Data Engineering

JOB SUMMARY:

The Director – Data Engineer position will develop new APIs and web-based products to consume and execute machine learning models.  Primary focus will be to integrate data science models with Caesars data infrastructure and develop internal web-based consumption tools.

KEY JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Efficiently collect, process and access data necessary for Data Science team


• Build infrastructure and “pipelines” for handling data, using generalization and abstraction layers to improve efficiency and sustainability of data architecture


• Design redundancies, automated monitoring and robust architecture to minimize data downtime


• Working with distributed clusters of variety of servers


• Collaborate with data scientists to productionalize machine learning models


• Develop web-based tools to serve data science insights to internal stakeholders

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: 

• MS in quantitative field, preferred computer science


• Graduation from a top-tier program or other evidence of high performance/potential preferred


• Demonstrated experience in developing data solutions


• Previous experience working in a cloud environment


• 2+ years relevant experience preferred


• Web development, client and server side scripting (ie HTML, Javascript, PHP, Python Flask) experience required


• Javascript libraries JQuery, Vue.js, chart.js preferred


• Relational Database (ie SQL) and Python coding experience required


• Must possess very strong interpersonal, communication and consensus building skills; willing to work on developing and managing key relationships across the organization.


• Must be able to work in a deadline-oriented environment, ensuring decisions and management communication is occurring in a timely fashion across all geographical areas of operations


• Ability to uphold and demonstrate the highest level of integrity in all situations and recognize standards required by a regulated business