Role overview

Data Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

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Essential Functions:

  • Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture.
  • Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
  • Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing 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 and AWS ‘big data’ technologies.
  • Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights for Information Asset as well as Information Asset Customers’ operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
  • Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
  • Create data tools for analytics to build and optimize offering into an industry leading solution
  • Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality data systems.

Position Requirements

  • Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
  • Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets.
  • Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
  • Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.
  • A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets.
  • Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.
  • Strong project management and organizational skills.
  • Excellent writing and verbal communication skills and a high level of customer orientation

Required Education and Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information technology, or equivalent work experience.

· 3+ years as a Data Engineer.

  • Data engineering certification (e.g. IBM Certified Data Engineer, AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty) is a plus.
  • Must have technical expertise with data models, data mining, and segmentation techniques.
  • Experience using any of all of a combination of the following software/tools: • Relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
  • Data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
  • Data Storage Technologies like Amazon S3, Snowflake/Redshift, Hive, HDFS
  • Stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
  • Object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python/ pySpark, Java, C++, Scala, etc.
  • Data warehousing using Oracle/Snowflake.
  • ETL Technologies like -Apache Spark/AWS Glue/ Databricks, Apache Airflow, Apache Hadoop.
  • Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
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