Role overview

Data Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

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Responsibilities:

  • 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 performance and 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 into customer acquisition, 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.
  • Keep our data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions.
  • Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.
  • Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.

Skills & Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role
  • Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres, Oracle and Cassandra.
  • Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools.
  • Experience with AWS cloud services: S3, EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift.
  • Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, Amazon Kinesis, etc.
  • Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, NodeJs.
  • 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 both structured and 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.
  • Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.

Education:

  • Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field.

Working conditions:

  • Remote

Working conditions:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
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