AI Data Engineer

BCforward; United States; Remote; Full time

Job summary

BCforward is seeking a highly motivated AI Data Engineer for a remote position. This role involves transforming raw gaming data into actionable insights, working collaboratively with various teams to prioritize security and data quality. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in a technical field and several years of relevant experience.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Major medical, HSA, dental, vision

Employer-provided group life insurance

401k

Qualifications

• 5-7 years applicable experience in data engineering.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Experience building enterprise scale data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build expert knowledge of business data domains.
• Design data models and develop scalable solutions.
• Create automated data pipelines to enhance data quality.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modeling

Big data pipelines

Cloud experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Job description

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Base pay range

$65.00/hr - $70.00/hr

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BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated AI Data Engineer remote opportunity.

Location: Remote

Anticipated Start Date: ASAP

Please note this is the target date and is subject to change. BCforward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date.

Expected Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: [FULL TIME] (>=40 HRS WEEKLY)], [CONTRACT], [REMOTE]

Pay Range: $65/hr to $70/hr on W2

Please note that actual compensation may vary within this range due to factors such as location, experience, and job responsibilities, and does not encompass additional non-standard compensation (e.g., benefits, paid time off, per diem, etc.).

Location: Remote

Duration: 12 Months

Summary:

Join us as a Senior Analytics Engineer and be an architect of our data-driven future. We are seeking a strategic thinker who will combine their technical expertise with a deep understanding of the business to deliver solutions which transform raw gaming data into actionable insights and data products. You will build robust pipelines, well-crafted data models, and innovative data products to drive impactful outcomes. You will prioritize security, data quality, reliability, and usability to ensure stakeholder confidence in our solutions. To be successful, we collaborate with data scientists, analysts, data engineers, game teams and stakeholders at the pace of our business. Our team is passionate about our mission, embracing challenges with a growth mindset, and continuously leveling-up.

Responsibilities

• Build subject matter expertise of our business and data domains to collaborate with data consumers and stakeholders to understand their information needs and assist them with data access.
• Identify and analyze multi-structured data or metadata from a variety of sources to select and document the most effective and accurate data which fulfills the analytics requirements.
• Design data models, architect dataflows, and develop abstractions to deliver scalable solutions for analytics and machine learning ensuring they can evolve with changing needs.
• Leverage modern data engineering practices and frameworks with an object-oriented approach to architect, build, and maintain automated data pipelines which transform data into clean, enriched, and accurate information.
• Advance our infrastructure by developing frameworks, reusable components and new capabilities to achieve our mission.
• Steward the creation, collection, maintenance, and management of metadata.
• Handle confidential information responsibly and correctly apply security and privacy policies.
• Test programs or databases, correct errors and make necessary modifications

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required
• 5-7 years applicable experience required
• Critical thinker and problem solver who brings a creative and open mindset to each situation.
• A proven track record building and optimizing analytic solutions and data products which deliver significant business impact.
• Data analysis and exploration skills to identify, select and prepare data or metadata for analytics.
• Business acumen to understand and address business challenges through analytics engineering.
• Experience building, maintaining and optimizing enterprise scale data pipelines handling logs and event streaming data on Cloud Data Platforms using modern tools like Spark, and airflow; Azure preferred.
• Strong Python skills for data processing combined with a pythonic mindset. Proficient SQL.
• Working knowledge of DevOps and DataOps.
• Video game domain knowledge is important – as an experienced Player or industry veteran.

Candidate Requirements:

• Years of Experience Required: 3-5 overall years of experience in the field. In a data analytics, 5-7 in the engineering space. 3-5 in data engineering
• Degrees or certifications required: Software engineering degree or equivalent.
• Disqualifiers: This is NOT a true Data Scientist role - candidates submitted with only data scientist experience will be Disqualified. Please review the JD thoroughly.
• Data experience is not relevant.
• Just using buzz words and not able to demonstrate how they can apply the skills or how they are involved in the experience they are mentioning, need concrete examples.
• Lacks critical thinking skills.
• Best vs. Average: The ideal candidate has previous experience with Data Bricks. The ideal candidate has experience with analytics engineering with an emphasis on understanding the businesses information need and why this data needs to be prepared in a specific way, moving data, checking for quality. Additional preferences include video game domain knowledge, great quality of work as related to the usability by our analysis and user, and previous experience with AI. Candidate is a critical thinker who has a solid track record building Big Data Pipelines. Strong python skills and pythonic mindset to create efficient and effective python code. Highly usable and effective data models. Good collaborator and communicator with project partners and stakeholders.
• Performance Indicators: Performance will be assessed based on quality of work and meeting deadlines.

Top 3 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience

• Python | 3 – 5 Years of Experience
• SQL | 2+ Years of Experience
• Data modeling | 3 – 5 Years of Experience
• Big data pipelines | 5 Years of Experience
• Cloud experience| 3 – 5 Years of Experience

BCforward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k.

About BCforward:

Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward’s 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.

BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.

BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

To learn more about how BCforward collects and uses personal information as part of the recruiting process, view our Privacy Notice and CCPA Addendum. As part of the recruitment process, we may ask for you to disclose and provide us with various categories of personal information, including identifiers, professional information, commercial information, education information, and other related information. BCforward will only use this information to complete the recruitment process.

This posting is not an offer of employment. All applicants applying for positions in the United States must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The submission of intentionally false or fraudulent information in response to this posting may render the applicant ineligible for the position. Any subsequent offer of employment will be considered employment at-will regardless of the anticipated assignment duration.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Analyst and Engineering

• Industries

  Computer Games and IT Services and IT Consulting

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