Data Engineer

Investment Strategies Group; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 117,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Investment Strategies Group in Philadelphia is seeking a Data Engineer with 5+ years of SQL experience to join a contract-focused team. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners to scope projects, push data mining changes with safe flags, and document systems to enable rapid onboarding of a senior engineer.

You will help stand up observability, translate business requirements into technical specs, and build self-service data mining tools for Philadelphia teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of SQL experience
• Hands-on familiarity with Jupyter
• Ability to translate data findings into clear recommendations
• Demonstrated growth mindset and feedback mindset

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to scope and deliver contract projects
• Push data mining changes behind feature flags for quick rollbacks in PA
• Document the data systems to aid onboarding of a senior engineer
• Build observability to detect failures before customers in PA
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications and tasks
• Create self-service data mining tools to reduce ticket requests
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for production environments
• Assist with rollouts and maintain data pipelines across Philadelphia teams

Skills

SQL

Jupyter

Data analysis

Communication

Growth mindset

Tools

Jupyter

Job description

The phrase "it works on my machine" makes you wince, which is exactly why you'd make a great Data Engineer here in Philadelphia. For the boldly-pragmatic Data Engineer with 5 years, Investment Strategies Group answers with $117,000 - $179,000, a contract setup, and a ladder built for climbing.

Key Responsibilities

• Pair with cross-functional partners to scope and deliver contract projects
• Push Data Mining changes safely behind flags so Philadelphia, PA rollbacks take seconds
• Carry the Active Listening platform work that makes Investment Strategies Group's next PA expansion boring
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for heads-down-and-happy production environments
• Document the Jupyter system so the next senior engineer onboards in days, not weeks
• Stand up observability so Investment Strategies Group sees failures before customers in PA do
• Translate thoughtfully-bold business requirements into technical specifications and tasks
• Build Data Mining self-service tools so Philadelphia teams stop filing tickets for everything

What You'll Bring

• The integrity to flag your own mistakes first
• Hands-on familiarity with Jupyter, sharpened by Empathy side projects
• Experience thriving in a deeply-bought-in, deadline-driven setting like Investment Strategies Group
• 5+ years of SQL reps, not just SQL exposure
• Comfort interpreting data and translating findings into clear recommendations
• A growth mindset that treats feedback as fuel, not threat

We are Investment Strategies Group, an empowering technology company headquartered in Philadelphia, PA. Nobody at Investment Strategies Group will hover over your shoulder; we hand you the keys and trust you to drive.

You’ll receive $117,000 - $179,000, a hybrid schedule, and a personalized development plan tailored to your technology career goals.

Our team checks new Data Engineer applications every single business day.