<div><strong>Position Summary:</strong></div><div>The Snowflake Data Engineer is responsible for managing and optimizing our Snowflake data warehouse environment to support our data-driven initiatives.&nbsp; This position will be responsible for overseeing the Snowflake data warehouse, ensuring its availability, performance, security, and scalability. The Snowflake Data Engineer works closely with the Business Intelligence team and cross-functional teams to enhance the ministry’s data services and data management.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Essential Functions:</strong></div><ol><li>Oversee the Snowflake data warehouse, ensuring its availability, performance, security, and scalability.</li><li>Manage Snowflake users, roles, and resource monitors, ensuring compliance with security and data governance policies.</li><li>Monitor and optimize Snowflake’s performance and cost, including query tuning and optimizing data storage.</li><li>Collaborate with BI and software teams to design and implement effective data models and ETL processes.</li><li>Focused on data engineering by building, maintaining, and optimizing Streams, Tasks, Stored Procedures, Functions, Views, Materialized Views, and Dynamic Tables.</li><li>Stay current with Snowflake features and updates, implementing best practices and upgrades.</li><li>Assist in data migration projects, ensuring smooth and efficient transfer to data to the Snowflake environment.</li><li>Provide technical support and training to team members on Snowflake usage and best practices.</li><li>Prepare and maintain detailed documentation regarding the Snowflake environment, including configuration, processes, and policies.</li><li>Work closely with Snowflake support to resolve any technical issues.</li></ol><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Study or Knowledge or Experience:</strong></div><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in information technology, or equivalent experience.&nbsp;</li><li>Proven experience (2+ years) in a Snowflake Administration role, participating in the design and implementation of complex data solutions in large-scale organizations.</li><li>Proficency in SQL and experience with ETL tools and processes.</li><li>Familiarity with data warehousing concepts, data modeling, and big data technologies.</li><li>Experience with Snowflake security management, data sharing and performance tuning.</li><li>SnowPro certifications a plus.</li><li>Understanding of external integrations such as Azure Blob Storage.</li><li>Understanding of Salesforce CRM and Marketing Cloud.</li><li>Understand of CCPA and GPDR.</li><li>Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex business processes and design scalable solutions.</li><li>Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders.</li><li>Knowledge of Agile methodologies and project management practices.&nbsp;</li><li>Strive to live a life consistent with biblical principles, engaged with the Bible on a consistent basis and demonstrate continued growth and spiritual development.&nbsp;</li></ul><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Internal Work Environment:</strong></div><div>Develop, maintain, and improve communication channels among various teams and departments to ensure effective flow or information throughout the organization Facilitate cross-functional collaboration and teamwork. Handle sensitive situations or controversial issues with tact, discretion, and sensitivity. Exhibit excellent judgement regarding the appropriate content and timing of communications. Break down complex concepts into easily understandable formats for various audiences across the organization. Develop strategies to present and share complex information. Create and deliver software demonstrations for meetings and other high-level gatherings.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>External Communication:</strong></div><div>Establish and maintain communication with vendors, partners, and other external stakeholders, understand their needs, expectations, and requirements to foster positive and productive relationships and model biblical principles.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Leadership Responsibility:</strong></div><div>Provide technical guidance on Snowflake to solve complex business problems.</div><div><strong>&nbsp;</strong></div><div><strong>Stewardship of Resources:</strong></div><div>Contribute to the budget planning process for data initiatives, providing expert input on anticipated resources required for data, storage, as well as necessary tools and technologies.&nbsp; Offer insightful feedback to ensure cost-effectiveness and alignment with project goals.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Miscellaneous:</strong></div><div>Our Daily Bread Ministries is a nondenominational nonprofit with staff and volunteers across the globe and resources distributed in 150 countries and in more than 50 languages. As a global ministry faithful to biblical principles, our commitment to diversity is reflected in our ministry's mission, vision, values, and ethos.</div>

Snowflake Data Engineer

<div><strong>Position Summary:</strong></div><div>The Senior Optimizely Developer is responsible for building and implementing web applications and digital platforms aimed at delivering engaging user experiences to ODBM audiences. Responsible for analyzing business requirements, devising scalable and sustainable solutions, and ensuring the seamless integration of various systems with Optimizely DXP.&nbsp; Works closely with global and cross-functional teams to enhance the ministry’s operational efficiency and effectiveness.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Essential Functions:</strong></div><ol><li>Build feature sets for existing applications, enhancing application integrations, and upgrading the portfolio of business applications.</li><li>Lead the architectural design and technical strategy for Optimizely integration projects, ensuring alignment with best practices and industry standards.</li><li>Conduct comprehensive analysis of existing software implementations and recommend improvements and optimizations.</li><li>Oversee the integration of Optimizely with other internal and third-party applications and systems to ensure seamless data flow and process automation.</li><li>Utilize continuous integration practices for deploying code.</li><li>Work with primary technology stack of C#, SQL Server, Visual Studio, Azure, and GitHub.</li><li>Collaborate closely with IT and Business groups.&nbsp; Display a service mindset coupled with excellent communication.</li><li>Guide and mentor development teams in implementing software solutions according to architectural guidelines and coding standards.</li><li>Stay updated with the latest Optimizely features and capabilities, providing insights into how they can be leveraged to benefit the organization.</li><li>Collaborate with the data management teams to ensure data integrity, security, and compliance with applicable regulations.</li><li>Manage the overall health and performance of integrated Optimizely applications, troubleshooting and resolving issues as they arise.</li><li>Provide technical leadership in evaluating, selecting, and implementing add-ons or complementary technologies that enhance our capabilities.</li><li>Participate in the development of a long-term Optimizely roadmap, aligned with the organizations’ strategic objectives.</li></ol><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Study or Knowledge or Experience:</strong></div><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.</li><li>Five plus years of experience with C#.</li><li>Three plus years of experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React JavaScript, Next.js.</li><li>Experience using and/or creating REST web services.</li><li>Understanding of Git fundamentals (commits, pull requests, branches, etc.).</li><li>Strong attention to detail and high level of accuracy.</li><li>Experience implementing best practice CI/CD principles.</li><li>Experience with Entity Framework Core.</li><li>Experience working in a PCI environment.</li><li>Experience with Optimizely Hybrid Headless DXP and experience with Azure.</li><li>Proficiency in Optimizely with various APIs, web services, and enterprise systems.</li><li>Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex business processes and design scalable solutions.</li><li>Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders.</li><li>Knowledge of Agile methodologies and project management practices.</li><li>Strive to live a life consistent with biblical principles, engaged with the Bible on a consistent basis and demonstrate continued growth and spiritual development.&nbsp;</li></ul><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Internal Work Environment:</strong></div><div>Develop, maintain, and improve communication channels among various teams and departments to ensure effective flow of information throughout the organization.&nbsp; Handle sensitive situations or controversial issues with tact, discretion, and sensitivity.&nbsp; Exhibit excellent judgment regarding the appropriate content and timing of communications.&nbsp; Break down complex concepts into easily understandable formats for various audiences across the organization.&nbsp; Create and deliver demonstration software for meetings and other high-level gatherings.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>External Communication:</strong></div><div>Establish and maintain communication with vendors, partners, and other external stakeholders.&nbsp; Understand their needs, expectations, and requirements to foster positive and productive relationships and model biblical principles.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Leadership Responsibility:</strong></div><div>Provide technical and thought leadership and expert guidance on software development and Salesforce data and integration patterns to solve complex business problems.&nbsp; Share knowledge and provide mentorship to junior developers and other team members, helping to uplift the overall Salesforce capability of the organization.&nbsp;</div><div><strong>&nbsp;</strong></div><div><strong>Stewardship of Resources:</strong></div><div>Contribute to the budget planning process for Salesforce initiatives, providing expert input on anticipated resources required for software, data, storge, as well as necessary tools and technologies.&nbsp; Offer insightful feedback to ensure cost-effectiveness and alignment with project goals.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Miscellaneous:</strong></div><div>Our Daily Bread Ministries is a nondenominational nonprofit with staff and volunteers across the globe and resources distributed in 150 countries and in more than 50 languages. As a global ministry faithful to biblical principles, our commitment to diversity is reflected in our ministry's mission, vision, values, and ethos.&nbsp;</div>

Senior Optimizely Developer - Hybrid

<div><strong>Position Summary:</strong></div><div>The Director of Technology Projects is responsible for ensuring enterprise projects and initiatives are executed successfully and project goals are achieved. Has excellent written and verbal communication skills to facilitate the evaluation, selection, and prioritization of projects and initiatives with senior leaders. Reports on the overall health of portfolios, programs, and projects, tickets, work requests, and identifies issues and risks and creates mitigation plans. Establishes, matures, and maintains Project Management Office (PMO) best practices, including the establishment of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure portfolio, program, and project success. Acts as project advisor to Project Managers and ensures adherence to project management best practices, including serving as the champion of the Project Management Center of Practice (COP).</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Essential Functions:</strong></div><ol><li>Proactively influence our culture, leading by example in demonstrating collaboration, empowerment, innovation, creativity, and service, while being a faithful witness on and off the job of Our Daily Bread Ministries (ODBM) mission to create compelling media that inspires and encourages our community members to have a meaningful relationship with Christ.</li><li>Contribute to long term planning and vision implementation through identification of strategic business and technology initiatives, collaboration, prioritization, communication, and evaluation of results, while preserving ODBM’s reputation for integrity and excellence.&nbsp;</li><li>Serve as a trusted advisor to the Information Services (IS) Leadership team, and leadership at all levels across the organization to ensure the best delivery of Project Management Office services to the ministry, effectively translating strategy into operations via projects and initiatives.</li><li>Provide leadership for the Project Management Office function and Project Managers, ensuring ministry wide collaboration and communication, facilitating appropriate resolution of issues, and competing priorities. Ensure alignment of IS initiatives with Ministry objectives.</li><li>Serve as Champion of the professional project discipline and act as a trusted partner across the ministry to facilitate people, process, and technology change aligned to the strategic plan.</li><li>Establish, mature, and maintain a Project Management Office so that the highest value strategic programs, projects, and initiatives are successfully implemented for the ministry.</li><li>Establish and maintain project management methodologies, via a Center of Practice, so that Project Managers carry out their PM work in an optimized and consistent way.</li><li>Provide oversight to multiple project managers (both employees and contractors) to ensure project work is executed to established PM standards and best practice.</li><li>Manage work intake (ideas, projects, and change requests (CR’s) and prioritization for business and technology initiatives.</li><li>Work with the CDTO, Technology, and Digital Marketing leaders to create annual budgets and track progress against them.</li><li>Frame-up and execute high priority and ‘mission critical’ programs and projects.</li><li>Manage stakeholder expectations across key project constraints including budget, time, quality, resources, and scope.</li><li>Achieve results and build relationships across departments and teams.</li><li>Apply excellent written and oral communication to inform and influence technical and business leaders.</li><li>Think creatively to remove roadblocks and support the project team to achieve results.</li><li>Evaluate complex problems and questions and break them down into manageable pieces of work.</li><li>Provide strategic leadership, mentoring and developing a highly competent and responsive Project Management team, ensuring alignment of goals and ministry initiatives with ODBM’s mission. Foster a learning environment where training, risk management, operational best practices, and biblical values go hand in hand with creative and entrepreneurial solution that best fulfill the ministry’s mission.</li><li>Demonstrate the qualities of a life-time learner in the disciplines relevant to effectively lead and perform job duties by taking personal responsibility for professional development and training.</li><li>Actively participate and contribute to ministry wide initiatives and projects like daily Bible engagement, All Ministry Meetings, and weekly chapel. These initiatives, and others, are key components of the ministry, our culture and more fun to do together!</li><li>Support and contribute to ministry endeavors by following employment policies and practices and supporting a safe and healthy work environment.&nbsp; Specifically, follow ODBM’s Injury Prevention and Safety program, support and maintain safety standards, and participate in safety training.</li><li>Perform other duties as assigned.</li></ol><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Study or Knowledge or Experience:</strong></div><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience preferred.</li><li>Five years of experience in program and project management is beneficial.</li><li>Skilled in project management administrative and support software including, but not limited to MS Project, Asana, Monday.com, Wrike, etc.</li><li>PMP certification is a strong plus.</li><li>Strive to live a life consistent with biblical principles, engaged with the Bible on a consistent basis and demonstrate continued growth and spiritual development.&nbsp;</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Internal Work Environment:</strong></div><div>Develops, maintains, and improves communication channels among various teams and departments to ensure effective flow of information throughout the organization. Facilitates cross-functional collaboration and teamwork. Handles sensitive situations or controversial issues with tact, discretion, and sensitivity. Exhibits excellent judgment regarding the appropriate content and timing of communications. Creates and delivers major presentations for company-wide meetings, board meetings, and other high-level gatherings.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>External Communication:</strong></div><div>Establishes and maintains communication with vendors, partners, and other external stakeholders. Understands their needs, expectations, and requirements to foster positive and productive relationships and model Biblical principles.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Leadership Responsibility:</strong></div><div>Provides leadership to project managers and work intake leaders. Grows staff though encouraging and timely mentorship.</div><div><strong>&nbsp;</strong></div><div><strong>Stewardship of Resources:</strong></div><div>Capable of managing a staff of professionals and a team budget.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Miscellaneous:</strong></div><div>Our Daily Bread Ministries is a nondenominational nonprofit with staff and volunteers across the globe and resources distributed in 150 countries and in more than 50 languages. As a global ministry faithful to biblical principles, our commitment to diversity is reflected in our ministry's mission, vision, values, and ethos. Occasional domestic travel within the United States.</div>

Director of Technology Projects

<div><strong>Position Summary:</strong></div><div>The Principal Data Scientist is responsible for leading data strategy and cultivating a culture of data-driven decision-making throughout the organization. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather, analyze, and interpret complex data sets into clear, actionable insights, helping to shape crucial business initiatives and propelling the organization towards its strategic objectives.<br><br></div><div><strong>Essential Functions:</strong></div><ol><li>Spearhead the development and implementation of data strategy to unlock the full potential of data-driven decision-making across the organization.</li><li>Lead the design, development, and deployment of advanced analytical models and algorithms to solve complex business problems.</li><li>Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to identify business objectives, define data requirements, and formulate effective data-driven solutions.</li><li>Gather, analyze, and interpret complex and diverse datasets from various sources, employing SQL, Snowflake, Alteryx, and Five Tran to ensure data integrity and accuracy.</li><li>Build and oversee ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes and data migration projects, including designing, developing, testing, and deploying robust data pipelines and workflows to ensure accurate and efficient migration of data across multiple systems.</li><li>Leverage the power of Tableau and other innovative visualization tools to create insightful, interactive dashboards and reports that facilitate data-driven insights and decision-making.</li><li>Apply machine learning techniques to build predictive models, classification algorithms, and recommend optimal business strategies.</li><li>Conduct thorough exploratory data analysis to discover meaningful patterns, trends, and anomalies, shedding light on critical business insights and opportunities.</li><li>Communicate findings and insights effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders through presentations and reports.</li><li>Collaborate closely with data engineers to ensure the availability, accuracy, and security of data infrastructure and storage solutions, including Blob Storage and cloud-based platforms.</li><li>Stay up to date with the latest industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in data science, data architecture, and analytics, applying them to enhance our data strategy and methodologies.</li><li>Mentor and guide junior data scientists in their professional growth and development.</li><li>Establish and implement policies for effective data management, ensuring privacy, security, and adherence to relevant ethical standards and regulations.</li><li>Advocate for a data-driven culture within the organization, driving the understanding, integration, and application of data science methodologies across different business units.</li><li>Engage with senior leadership and stakeholders to align data science initiatives with organizational goals and objectives, ensuring transparency and mutual understanding.</li><li>Develop and track Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure effectiveness of projects and strategy.</li><li>Regularly review and maintain data systems and models to ensure their continued accuracy, efficiency, and relevancy.</li><li>Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the data science team, regularly organizing team training and knowledge sharing sessions.</li><li>Ensure the robustness and reliability of data science code and systems through comprehensive testing strategies, including unit tests, regression tests, and validation against known benchmarks.</li></ol><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Study or Knowledge or Experience:</strong></div><ul><li>Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Data Science, Computer Science, and Statistics.</li><li>Minimum of 10 years of experience in data science, data architecture, and analytics.</li><li>Proficiency in SQL and hands-on experience working with databases and data warehousing systems, with expertise in Snowflake.</li><li>Strong expertise in data manipulation, transformation, and integration using tools such as Alteryx and FiveTran.</li><li>Advanced proficiency in Tableau or similar visualization tools, enabling the creation of insightful and visually appealing dashboards and reports.</li><li>Extensive experience working with Salesforce and extracting meaningful insights from its data.</li><li>Familiarity with Blob Storage and cloud-based data storage solutions.</li><li>Solid understanding and practical application of machine learning techniques, including regression, clustering, classification, and recommendation systems.</li><li>Proficiency in Python or R for developing and deploying machine learning models.</li><li>Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills, with a strong attention to detail.</li><li>Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li><li>Proven ability to lead and mentor a team of data scientists, fostering their growth and development.</li><li>Demonstrated experience in data strategy development and driving data-driven decision-making within an organization.</li><li>Knowledge of Agile methodologies and project management practices.</li><li>Strive to live a life consistent with Biblical principles, engaged with the Bible on a consistent basis and demonstrate continued growth and spiritual development.&nbsp;</li></ul><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Internal Work Environment:</strong></div><div>Develops, maintains, and improves communication channels among various teams and departments to ensure effective flow of information throughout the organization. Facilitates cross-functional collaboration and teamwork. Handles sensitive situations or controversial issues with tact, discretion, and sensitivity. Exhibits excellent judgment regarding the appropriate content and timing of communications. Creates and delivers major presentations for company-wide meetings, board meetings, and other high-level gatherings.<br><br></div><div><strong>External Communication:</strong></div><div>Establishes and maintains communication with vendors, partners, and other external stakeholders. Understands their needs, expectations, and requirements to foster positive and productive relationships and model Biblical principles.<br><br></div><div><strong>Leadership Responsibility:</strong></div><div>Provides technical and thought leadership and expert guidance on appropriate statistical, machine learning, and data mining techniques to solve complex business problems. Shares knowledge and provide mentorship to junior data scientists and other team members, helping to uplift the overall data literacy and capability of the organization.<br><br></div><div><strong>Stewardship of Resources:</strong></div><div>Contribute to the budget planning process for data science initiatives, providing expert input on anticipated resources required for data acquisition, storage, analysis, as well as necessary tools and technologies. Offer insightful feedback to ensure cost-effectiveness and alignment with project goals.<br><br></div><div><strong>Miscellaneous:</strong></div><div>Our Daily Bread Ministries is a nondenominational nonprofit with staff and volunteers across the globe and resources distributed in 150 countries and in more than 50 languages. As a global ministry faithful to biblical principles, our commitment to diversity is reflected in our ministry's mission, vision, values, and ethos. Occasional domestic travel within the United States.</div>

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