Data Warehouse Manager

About Slintel (a 6sense company) :

Slintel, a 6sense company,  the leader in capturing technographics-powered buying intent, helps companies uncover the 3% of active buyers in their target market. Slintel evaluates over 100 billion data points and analyzes factors such as buyer journeys, technology adoption patterns, and other digital footprints to deliver market & sales intelligence.

Slintel's customers have access to the buying patterns and contact information of more than 17 million companies and 250 million decision makers across the world.

Slintel is a fast growing B2B SaaS company in the sales and marketing tech space. We are funded by top tier VCs, and going after a billion dollar opportunity. At Slintel, we are building a sales development automation platform that can significantly improve outcomes for sales teams, while reducing the number of hours spent on research and outreach.

We are a big data company and perform deep analysis on technology buying patterns, buyer pain points to understand where buyers are in their journey. Over 100 billion data points are analyzed every week to derive recommendations on where companies should focus their marketing and sales efforts on. Third party intent signals are then clubbed with first party data from CRMs to derive meaningful recommendations on whom to target on any given day.

6sense is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has 8 office locations across 4 countries.

6sense, an account engagement platform, secured $200 million in a Series E funding round, bringing its total valuation to $5.2 billion 10 months after its $125 million Series D round. The investment was co-led by Blue Owl and MSD Partners, among other new and existing investors.

Linkedin (Slintel) : https://www.linkedin.com/company/slintel/">https://www.linkedin.com/company/slintel/

Industry : Software Development

Company size : 51-200 employees (189 on LinkedIn)

Headquarters : Mountain View, California

Founded : 2016

Specialties : Technographics, lead intelligence, Sales Intelligence, Company Data, and Lead Data.

Website (Slintel) : https://www.slintel.com/slintel">https://www.slintel.com/slintel

Linkedin (6sense) : https://www.linkedin.com/company/6sense/">https://www.linkedin.com/company/6sense/

Industry : Software Development

Company size : 501-1,000 employees (937 on LinkedIn)

Headquarters : San Francisco, California

Founded : 2013

Specialties : Predictive intelligence, Predictive marketing, B2B marketing, and Predictive sales

Website (6sense) : https://6sense.com/">https://6sense.com/

Acquisition News : 

https://inc42.com/buzz/us-based-based-6sense-acquires-b2b-buyer-intelligence-startup-slintel/ 

Funding Details & News :

Slintel funding : https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/slintel">https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/slintel

6sense funding : https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/6sense">https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/6sense

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/ai-software-firm-6sense-valued-at-%245.2-bln-after-softbank-joins-funding-round">https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/ai-software-firm-6sense-valued-at-%245.2-bln-after-softbank-joins-funding-round

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-20/6sense-reaches-5-2-billion-value-with-softbank-joining-round">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-20/6sense-reaches-5-2-billion-value-with-softbank-joining-round

https://xipometer.com/en/company/6sense">https://xipometer.com/en/company/6sense

Slintel & 6sense Customers :

https://www.featuredcustomers.com/vendor/slintel/customers

https://www.featuredcustomers.com/vendor/6sense/customers">https://www.featuredcustomers.com/vendor/6sense/customers

Responsibilities

• Work in collaboration with the application team and integration team to design, create, and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture and data structures for Data Lake/Data Warehouse
• Work with stakeholders including the Sales, Product, and Customer Support teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data analytics needs
• Assemble large, complex data sets from third-party vendors to meet business requirements.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimising data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL, Elastic search, MongoDB, and AWS technology
• Streamline existing and introduce enhanced reporting and analysis solutions that leverage complex data sources derived from multiple internal systems
  
  

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role
• Proficiency in Linux
• Must have SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as familiarity with databases including Mysql, Mongo, Cassandra, and Athena
• Must have experience with Python/ Scala
• Must have experience with Big Data technologies like Apache Spark
• Must have experience with Apache Airflow
• Experience with data pipeline and ETL tools like AWS Glue
• Experience working with AWS cloud services: EC2 S3 RDS, Redshift and other Data solutions eg. Databricks, Snowflake

Python, SQL, Scala, Spark, ETL

• NLP 

• ML programming
• Spark
• Model Deployment
• Experience processing unstructured data and building NLP models
• Experience with big data tools pyspark
• Pipeline orchestration using Airflow and model deployment experience is preferred

Work at the intersection of Energy, Weather & Climate Sciences and Artificial Intelligence.

Responsibilities:

• Manage all real-time and batch ETL pipelines with complete ownership
• Develop systems for integration, storage and accessibility of multiple data streams from SCADA, IoT devices, Satellite Imaging, Weather Simulation Outputs, etc.
• Support team members on product development and mentor junior team members

Expectations:

• Ability to work on broad objectives and move from vision to business requirements to technical solutions
• Willingness to assume ownership of effort and outcomes
• High levels of integrity and transparency

Requirements:

• Strong analytical and data driven approach to problem solving
• Proficiency in python programming and working with numerical and/or imaging data
• Experience working on LINUX environments
• Industry experience in building and maintaining ETL pipelines

This person MUST have:

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent.

• In-depth knowledge of machine learning algorithms and their applications including practical experience with and theoretical understanding of algorithms for classification, regression and clustering.
• Hands-on experience in computer vision and deep learning projects to solve real world problems involving vision tasks such as object detection, Object tracking, instance segmentation, activity detection, depth estimation, optical flow, multi-view geometry, domain adaptation etc.
• Strong understanding of modern and traditional Computer Vision Algorithms.
• Experience in one of the Deep Learning Frameworks / Networks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Darknet(YOLO v4 v5), U-Net, Mask R-CNN, EfficientDet,BERT etc.
• Proficiency with CNN architectures such as ResNet, VGG, UNet, MobileNet, pix2pix, and CycleGAN.
• Experienced user of libraries such as OpenCV, scikit-learn, matplotlib and pandas.
• Ability to transform research articles into working solutions to solve real-world problems.
• High proficiency in Python programming knowledge.
• Familiar with software development practices/pipelines (DevOps- Kubernetes, docker containers, CI/CD tools).
• Strong communication skills.

Experience:

• Min 2 year experience
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location:

• Remote developer

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with the client timezone.  Typically clients are in the California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

About us

Skit (previously known as http://vernacular.ai/" target="_blank">Vernacular.ai) is an AI-first SaaS voice automation company. Its suite of speech and language solutions enable enterprises to automate their contact centre operations. With over 10 million hours of training data, its product - Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant (VIVA) can currently respond in 16+ languages, covering over 160+ dialects and replicating human-like conversations.

Skit currently serves a variety of enterprise clients across diverse sectors such as BFSI, F&B, Hospitality, Consumer Electronics and Travel & Tourism, including prominent clients like Axis Bank, Hathway, Porter and Barbeque Nation. It has been featured as one of the top-notch start-ups in the Cisco Launchpad’s Cohort 6 and is a part of the World Economic Forum’s Global Innovators Community. It has has also been listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia start-ups 2021 for its remarkable industry innovation.

We are looking for ML Research Engineers to work on the following problems:

• Spoken Language Understanding and Dialog Management.
• Language semantics, parsing, and modeling across multiple languages.
• Speech Recognition, Speech Analytics and Voice Processing across multiple languages.
• Response Generation and Speech Synthesis.
• Active Learning, Monitoring and Observability mechanisms for deployments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and evaluate Machine Learning solutions.
• Perform experiments and statistical analyses to draw conclusions and take modeling decisions.
• Study, implement and extend state of the art systems.
• Take part in regular research reviews and discussions.
• Build, maintain and extend our open source solutions in the domain.
• Write well-crafted programs at all levels of the system. This includes the data pipelines, experiment prototypes, fast and scalable deployment models, and evaluation, visualization and monitoring systems.

Requirements

• Practical Machine Learning experience as demonstrated by earlier works.
• Knowledge of and ability to use tools from theoretical and practical aspects of computer science. This includes, but is not limited to, probability, statistics, learning theory, algorithms, software architecture, programming languages, etc.
• Good programming skills and ability to work with programs at all levels of a finished Machine Learning product. We prefer language agnosticism since that exemplifies this point.
• Git portfolios and blogs are helpful as they let us better evaluate your work.

• What information we collect during our application and recruitment process and why we collect it;
• How we use that information; and
• How to access and update that information.

• Your name, address, email address, telephone number and other contact information;
• Your resume or CV, cover letter, previous and/or relevant work experience or other experience, education, transcripts, or other information you provide to us in support of an application and/or the application and recruitment process;
• Information from interviews and phone-screenings you may have, if any;
• Details of the type of employment you are or may be looking for, current and/or desired salary and other terms relating to compensation and benefits packages, willingness to relocate, or other job preferences;
• Details of how you heard about the position you are applying for;
• Reference information and/or information received from background checks (where applicable), including information provided by third parties;
• Information about your educational and professional background from publicly available sources, including online, that we believe is relevant to your application or a potential future application (e.g. your LinkedIn profile); and/or
• Information related to any assessment you may take as part of the interview screening process.

• Assessing your skills, qualifications and interests against our career opportunities;
• Verifying your information and carrying out reference checks and/or conducting background checks (where applicable) if you are offered a job;
• Communications with you about the recruitment process and/or your application(s), including, in appropriate cases, informing you of other potential career opportunities at Skit;
• Creating and/or submitting reports as required under any local laws and/or regulations, where applicable;
• Making improvements to Skit's application and/or recruitment process including improving diversity in recruitment practices;
• Proactively conducting research about your educational and professional background and skills and contacting you if we think you would be suitable for a role with us.

• Responsibilities
       - Responsible for implementation and ongoing administration of Hadoop
  infrastructure.
       - Aligning with the systems engineering team to propose and deploy new
  hardware and software environments required for Hadoop and to expand existing
  environments.
       - Working with data delivery teams to setup new Hadoop users. This job includes
  setting up Linux users, setting up Kerberos principals and testing HDFS, Hive, Pig
  and MapReduce access for the new users.
       - Cluster maintenance as well as creation and removal of nodes using tools like
  Ganglia, Nagios, Cloudera Manager Enterprise, Dell Open Manage and other tools
       - Performance tuning of Hadoop clusters and Hadoop MapReduce routines
       - Screen Hadoop cluster job performances and capacity planning
       - Monitor Hadoop cluster connectivity and security
       - Manage and review Hadoop log files.
       - File system management and monitoring.
       - Diligently teaming with the infrastructure, network, database, application and
  business intelligence teams to guarantee high data quality and availability
       - Collaboration with application teams to install operating system and Hadoop
  updates, patches, version upgrades when required.
      
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  Qualifications
  Qualifications
       - Bachelors Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or other
  relevant fields
       - General operational expertise such as good troubleshooting skills,
  understanding of systems capacity, bottlenecks, basics of memory, CPU, OS,
  storage, and networks.
       - Hadoop skills like HBase, Hive, Pig, Mahout
       - Ability to deploy Hadoop cluster, add and remove nodes, keep track of jobs,
  monitor critical parts of the cluster, configure name node high availability, schedule
  and configure it and take backups.
       - Good knowledge of Linux as Hadoop runs on Linux.
       - Familiarity with open source configuration management and deployment tools
  such as Puppet or Chef and Linux scripting.
       Nice to Have
       - Knowledge of Troubleshooting Core Java Applications is a plus.

• Insurance P&C and Specialty domain experience a plus
• Experience in a cloud-based architecture preferred, such as Databricks, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, etc.
• Strong understanding of ETL fundamentals and solutions. Should be proficient in writing advanced / complex SQL, expertise in performance tuning and optimization of SQL queries required.
• Strong experience in Python/PySpark and Spark SQL
• Experience in troubleshooting data issues, analyzing end to end data pipelines, and working with various teams in resolving issues and solving complex problems.
• Strong experience developing Spark applications using PySpark and SQL for data extraction, transformation, and aggregation from multiple formats for analyzing & transforming the data to uncover insights and actionable intelligence for internal and external use