Job Title: Data Solution Architect
Location: East Hanover, NJ (Hybrid)
Pay rate: $40.85 - $42.03/hr
Work schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM (40 hrs/week)
Duration: 3 month contract
Overview
Job Specifications
- Partner with MDS to ensure data accessibility, retrievability, security, and protection in an ethical manner
- Conduct business requirement gathering and continuous improvement sessions with Product Owners, BI Developers, and Business Leads
- Develop requirement documents, acceptance criteria, and test cases for UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and SIT (System Integration Testing)
- Support scoping, building, testing, and maintaining data pipelines and transport systems to retrieve applicable datasets
- Build, test, and maintain flexible data models while reconciling multiple logical source models into a single consistent model
- Analyze the structure, format, and reliability of new and existing data sources for integrity, completeness, and accuracy
- Participate in data governance processes to document and maintain data for business reusability and consistent information retrieval
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field required
- 1+ years of experience in Data Engineering/Modeling and 3+ years in Database Design required
- Experience with Data Engineering concepts within a business setting, including working with SAP and internal/external data sources
- Proficiency in cloud computing technologies (Azure, GCP) and analytics platforms (Databricks, Google Cloud Dataproc)
- Expertise in programming languages including SQL, Python, PySpark, and DAX
- Knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps, DataOps, ETL processes, data pipelines, and technical documentation
- Hands‑on experience with data modeling and wrangling techniques/tools (Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, Data Vault, Alteryx, Power BI, Tableau)
Benefits (employee contribution):
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Life insurance
- Retirement plan
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Rate of pay within the stated range will depend on the qualification of the applicant.