LearnVest is redefining the American approach to personal finance. Our planners leverage financial technology to create simple, affordable, realistic plans for anyone who wants to feel confident about their money and optimistic about the future. 

Since launching in 2010, LearnVest has been one of the premier financial technology companies in the country, helping thousands of people make progress on their financial goals. LearnVest was acquired by Northwestern Mutual in 2015 and is now scaling its technology and personal finance approach to help millions of people across both the LearnVest and Northwestern Mutual brands. 

Reporting to the Senior Director of Insights Engineering, LearnVest is seeking a Database Administrator to help architect, implement, administer, and support a heterogeneous database environment. You will work on a team of data analyst and data engineers to build our enterprise data environment.

This role involves high attention to detail, a creative mindset and a team player. Strong experience working cross-functionally between departments, the ability to juggle many hats and communicate to technical professionals and business stakeholders is key to the success of this role.

Requirements 

• AWS experience, the more tools the better (data pipeline, S3, Kinesis, and any other tool)
• Relational Database Admin experience (Redshift, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Oracle)
• Hadoop experience (with relevant tools like Kafka, Spark, Hive etc.) - preferably open source implementation and not a store bought tool, but any is better than none
• Python/Scala experience within a data environment
• NoSql experience (Admin/developer) with Mongodb
• Some bi tools experience - Tableau for example, experience creating reports etc.
• Monitoring/Ops experience - Log slicing tools (like Splunk), and any real world experience from the trenches

Preferred

• Experience working in smaller environments as well as large enterprise environments
• Hands-on experience with Columnar
• Working within financial services, insurance, banking, or relative field.
• Keen eye for keeping up to date with new market trends and technologies
• BS/BA Degree in Math, Computer Science, or related field.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• A positive, fun go-getter who can take work seriously but knows how to joke around while getting things done 

Benefits

• Fully stocked snacks, beer fridge, cold brew kegs, frequent catered lunches, company dodgeball team, and whiskey hours.
• Tuition reimbursement, commuter plans, and paid time off.
• Highly competitive compensation that include base salary plus bonus.
• Medical/Dental/Vision plans, Matching 401(k), pension program