Senior Data Engineer

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 (Tableau) 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.

Work with system integration and middlewares (MuleSoft, Talend, Solace, etc.)

Perform proof of concept with customers in data integration and data load.

Manage structured and unstructured data sets.

Design data privacy, integrity, and security solutions.

Manage data with high confidentiality, integrity, and privacy.

Skills

Experience with working in agile methodologies (Scrum or SAFe).

Good teamwork and communication skills (Higher Performance Team).

Able to be self-organized and focused on delivering value to the business.

Always work with integrity, passion, and courage.

Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL), and NoSQL unstructured databases.

Familiarity with a variety of databases (Microsoft SQL is mandatory).

Familiarity with reporting tools and dashboards like Tableau.

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. Preferable middleware knowledge, examples: MuleSoft, Solace.

Strong project management and organizational skills.

Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.

We are looking for a candidate with 5+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role, who has attained a Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, or another quantitative field. They should also have experience using the following software/tools:

Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.

Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.

Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.

Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift.

Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.

Experience with object-oriented/object-function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.