About Transfix:

Transfix, named to Forbes’ “Next Billion-Dollar Startups” list, is the leading transportation solutions provider whose digital brokerage marketplace and logistics software offerings are helping transform the $800 billion trucking industry. Since its founding in 2013, Transfix has been driven by a mission to deliver simple, smart, and sustainable solutions for shippers and carriers, powered by people and technology.

Here at Transfix, we are not only building incredible technology solving some of the world’s biggest, most complex, and most important challenges in the freight and logistics industry; We are also helping protect our environment and are passionate about making the world a better place by increasing sustainability and eliminating the extreme amount of waste that currently exists in our industry.

By combining deep industry expertise and a best in class carrier network with cutting-edge technology, Transfix is reimagining the world of transportation. Transfix works with some of the largest Fortune 500 companies such as Staples, Unilever, Target and Wayfair rely on Transfix to handle their most important FTL freight needs. With instant pricing, algorithmic matching, superior service, and unmatched intelligence, Transfix is optimizing the supply chain from start to finish. 

The problems we solve everyday are real and require creativity, grit, and determination. Recognized as one of Built In’s Best Places to Work 2021, Transfix is building a culture that challenges norms while fostering experimentation and personal growth. We’re hiring team members who are passionate and are energized by the vision to simplify and transform one of the largest and most complex industries through technology, data and a strong commitment to customers. 

About the Role:

As we continue to make significant investments in growing our Data and Analytics functions, and are looking for a Data Solutions Architect to play a key role in our data architecture. In this role, you’ll ensure the Transfix data architecture is scalable, sustainable, flexible and can co-exist synchronously within our overall tech stack to deliver data in an accurate (and timely) manner. You’ll also assess our current tools, platforms, and processes to identify any gaps, and create the roadmap to support our Enterprise Data Warehouse.

If you’re an experienced Data Solutions Architect who is excited by the opportunity to build, are always striving for efficiency and simplicity, and thrive when you’re spanning your influence across business and technical teams alike, this may be the perfect role for you…. please keep reading!

What you’ll do in this role:

• Assess the current state of our data sources (both internally and externally) and design a plan to ensure the data platform and data models are sustainable and scalable
• Create standardization for our data building blocks and modify processes or automations to increase efficiency, data quality and sustainability as Transfix continues to grow
• Assess and understand our current tech stack as it exists today and develop a plan to improve the overall data platform architecture and individual components
• Understand business requirements and translate them into databases, data warehouse and data streams that improve the user experience
• Partner across the organization to devise and implement data strategies and data models that support various business units
• Own the data architecture lifecycle from creation to consumption spanning both our data engineering and data warehouse teams.
• Manage all tooling, processes, and applications for data delivery while continuously assessing opportunities for improvement across all of these areas
• Lead the Data Masking process by determining areas for pseudonymization and anonymization of data where appropriate
• Create and manage the processing and tooling for effective data onboarding efficiencies Lead the data auditing and logging processes and determine the necessary tools for an efficient and simplistic process
• Determine automation strategies for data processes that aim to make access Continuously make improvements to the data platform by always searching for opportunities to find processes and tools
• Lead the development efforts of open source applications and tooling by utilizing tools such as AirFlow, DBT, and any others you determine to be effective.
• Establish contracts with teams that produce or source data on tooling, SLAs, formatting and others

How to know this role is right for you:

• You have 5+ years of Data Warehouse Platform experience - Preferably as a Data Solutions Architect, Data Architect or Data Warehouse Engineer
• You understand how to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders; you’re as comfortable speaking with a Software Engineer as you are with a Finance Executive
• You’re a SQL expert and are comfortable querying SQL from a variety of databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• You’ve worked with a Snowflake data warehouse and are comfortable with a variety of Snowflake related tasks, tools, and processes
• You have coding experience and have worked with one or more OOP languages such as Ruby, Python, Java or other similar programming languages
• You’ve worked with open source applications
• You are familiar and understand the overall software development life cycle and have worked in a capacity that requires adherence to it
• You’re comfortable with both structured and unstructured data and have worked with both in a Data Platform context
• You have experience with streaming and batch processing
• You’ve done data sourcing and processing with CDC, API, files, DB logs, DB access, among others
• You’re a resourceful team player that can span influence across to engineering and business stakeholders
• You love to mentor more junior team members and are comfortable sharing your knowledge and experience with others who want to learn from you.

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Transfix is deeply committed to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in our hiring, programming, and in our work both internally and externally. We recognize how critical diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice are to achieving our mission, our growth, and our success. In support of this commitment, some of our focuses include (but are not limited to):

-Developing policies, procedures, and services to our employees, carriers, and shippers that uplift and protect to prevent inequalities 

-Building relationships among our employees, customers, and supporters that are reflective of our community

-Prioritizing the inclusion of diverse communities and underrepresented groups in internal leadership

-Fostering a culture of compassion, empathy, open-mindedness, compassion, and inclusivity

-Creating and maintaining opportunities for continuous education, discourse, and engagement related to issues of equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice

Transfix is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Transfix are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, and are made without regard to race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. It is Transfix’s policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity. Transfix does not and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Transfix encourages applicants of all ages.

To all recruitment agencies: Transfix does not accept unsolicited agency resumes and will not be held responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.