Lead Data Engineer

April Housing is a leading owner and operator of high-quality affordable housing throughout the United States. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Los Angeles, April Housing is the asset management business that oversees Blackstone's affordable housing and LIHTC portfolio. April oversees a portfolio of over 85,000 affordable housing units in approximately 650 communities. April Housing seeks to preserve critical affordable housing stock while providing best in class management and high-quality housing. April is committed to being a fair, transparent, and responsible owner.

April Housing’s long-term commitment to owning affordable housing is supported by Blackstone Funds, predominantly BREIT, a non-listed REIT. This perpetual capital vehicle provides April with a patient and flexible source of capital and plays a critical role in enabling the creation and preservation of more affordable housing. In addition to managing a growing portfolio, April Housing will ensure assets in the existing portfolio remain affordable and in compliance with all rent regulations while making significant improvements and aligning the operations with April Housing's Standards of Excellence in Residential Operations.

In its pursuit of excellence, April Housing is looking for individuals who share in its mission to provide high-quality housing to affordable residents.

As a Lead Data Engineer at April Housing, you will be responsible for overseeing the COE Data Engineers (India Offshore), ensuring the successful design and implementation of technical solutions, development of ETL data pipelines in our data platform (Azure/Databricks/Snowflake), maintenance of technical documentation, and UAT readiness. This position requires strong leadership skills, technical expertise, and a commitment to data quality and governance.

What you will do:

Technical Solution Design:

• Create technical solutions using Python and SQL to meet business requirements.

• Design system level architecture with some lower-level feature design.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the solutions are aligned with the overall business strategy.

• Identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and data quality issues.

• Identify opportunities for technical data improvement.

ETL Data Pipeline Development:

• Develop ETL data pipelines for data ingestion and modeling in Databricks.

• Ensure the ADF pipelines are efficient, reliable, and scalable.

• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management using DBT and Airflow or similar tools.

• Conduct root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer business questions.

Technical Documentation:

• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation for all solutions and pipelines.

• Ensure documentation is up-to-date and accessible to relevant stakeholders.

• UAT Readiness Solutions:

• Provide solutions to ensure UAT readiness in Snowflake and PowerBI.

• Collaborate with the QA team to identify and resolve any issues during UAT.

Team Leadership and Management:

• Lead, motivate, and manage the COE Data Engineers (offshore), providing guidance and support.

• Lead innovation in data science applications for operational efficiency

• Foster a collaborative and innovative team environment.

• Work closely with the VP of Technology to align technical feasibility with business goals.

Data Quality and Governance:

• Champion data quality and governance practices.

• Implement data validation processes and ensure compliance with governance policies.

Key Deliverables:

• End-to-end data pipelines such as rent rolls, effective rent models, and financial forecasting.

• Develop and document data models for key performance metrics.

• Collaboration with the COE team to ensure platform scalability and maintainability.

What you should have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

• Proven experience in technical solution design, ETL development pipelines using Databricks and Azure Data Factory, and data pipeline management.

• Proficiency in Python and SQL; experience with Snowflake, DBT, and Azure is highly preferred.

• Familiarity in source code management tools (such as Azure-Devops and Git)

• Strong knowledge of data governance and quality standards.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Communicates Effectively: Communicates with direction and inspiration. Consolidates facts and opinions to deliver compelling messages to teams. Considers various points of view and collaborates with peers and partner departments to deliver results.

Drives Results: Plans workstreams in line with standards set by leadership and follows up to ensure teams are delivering to standards set. Stays abreast of current results vis a vis targets and moves team forward actively to deliver on targets. Rely on data and analytics to determine options for enhancing results.

Plans and Aligns: Takes key organizational initiatives and develops detailed plans, optimizing resources and time to deliver upon them. Considers budget, personnel and timing implications when delivering upon plans. Ensure all teams required have a common plan and the resources, tools and processes to ensure deliverables are met

Manages Ambiguity: Can comfortably manage teams through "the gray", providing guidance and indicating when a pivot is necessary. Ensures team moves forward seamlessly even when a change of course is required. Details what is required when working with ambiguity and keep the team focused in these times.

Development Talent/Professional Development: Helps establish development plans for all critical talent. It is active in providing feedback of all types so that teams can become optimized including eliminating talent that is consistently underperforming and securing, rewarding and promoting talent that is high performing and high potential

Resilient: Works with team to encourage strong performance and morale even when results are lacking. Inspires others to keep moving forward with purpose and belief in executing the strategic plan. Celebrate successes and encourages when things don’t go as planned.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the California Fair Chance Act and any other applicable city, county, or local ordinances. Good cause exists for a criminal background check because one of the material duties of this position requires access to sensitive financial information and confidential and proprietary information and accordingly requires the candidate to possess a high level of integrity and discretion. The Company faces a significant risk to its business operations or business reputation if a criminal history check is not performed. A criminal history that has a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with these material duties may potentially result in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment.

Base Compensation Range:

$160,000.00 To $170,000.00. This represents the presently-anticipated low and high end of the Company’s base compensation range for this position. Actual base compensation range may vary based on various factors, including but not limited to location and experience.

Total Direct Compensation:  This job is also eligible for discretionary bonus and incentive compensation on an annual basis.

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EEO Statement

April Housing is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with applicable law, we prohibit discrimination against any applicant, employee, or other covered person based on any legally recognized basis, including, but not limited to: veteran status, uniformed servicemember status, race, color, caste, immigration status, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex, gender, gender expression, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation or related medical conditions), age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), protected leave status, domestic violence victim status, or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations, if you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please email talent@revantage.com