In the age of digital transformation, data has become increasingly vital to core business operations. But with so many cloud applications and platforms available today, data has become more decentralized than ever.
CData is the real-time data connectivity company. Our easy-to-use integration products allow users to work with their data where, when, and how they need it. With a robust library of real-time data connectors, users can access data from hundreds of applications, tools, and systems – on-premises or in the cloud.
CData is a global company, headquartered in Chapel Hill, NC with about 400 team members worldwide. More than 10,000 organizations rely on CData technologies to overcome data fragmentation challenges and unlock value from diverse, dispersed data assets.
Technical Lead - ETL/ELT productCData Software is looking for a Technical Lead to join our CData Sync engineering team. The candidate would be a senior member of the team responsible for building and maintaining our flagship ETL/ELT Data Ingestion offering
Location(s): North Carolina Research Triangle or East Coast (preferred)
Key Duties & Responsibilities:Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Work within a globally distributed development team that delivers CData Sync
• Collaborate with Product Management on designing product features, creating technical designs and driving delivery with the team.
• Collaborate in identifying and executing any necessary proof of concepts required for product design work.
• Work with our support team on identifying and resolving complex technical issues, including potential product improvements resulting from them.
• Work with other product groups within the organization to manage cross-product dependencies as well as help define common patterns or solutions applicable across a broader product portfolio.
• Propose technical alternatives for solving complex problems of data connectivity and integration, including query execution optimization, caching, reliability, and similar. The candidate would also be expected to help the team define detailed implementation plans for selected alternatives when necessary.
• Contribute to making the team more effective and efficient including:
• Mentoring junior engineers joining the team.
• Proposing improvements to the code structure, testing process, and overall design that solve complex issues across multiple products.
• Participate and support the release process.
• Identify changes that make the system(s) more efficient and/or reduces operation or maintenance costs.

Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience with Java programming (Java 1.8 and up.)
• Experience consuming REST and SOAP based web services, or working with file formats like CSV and Parquet are desirable.
• Experience implementing Web-based applications.
• Experience connecting with a wide variety of relational and non-relational databases.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
• ETL/ELT experience preferred.
• Experience working with data warehouses and tools such as Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Databricks, etc. is preferred.
• Experience working with Change Data Capture (CDC) processes in relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle) is a plus.