IT Data Engineer

TekWissen LLC; Town of Montana (WI); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Part time

Job summary

TekWissen LLC in St. Louis, MO is seeking an IT Data Engineer for a 12-month hybrid assignment. You will join a data engineering team focused on distributed analytics across diverse datasets and build data-intensive APIs using Go, Kafka, and cloud platforms. Strong testing discipline and a passion for scalable data systems are required.

The role emphasizes collaboration, innovative problem solving, and opportunities to present work at technical conferences within a dynamic team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years with Go.
• 2+ years building and maintaining data-intensive RESTful APIs.
• Experience with stream processing using Apache Kafka.
• Experience with unit testing and Test Driven Development methodologies.
• Familiarity with creating and maintaining containerized deployments with Docker.
• Experience building cloud-based infrastructure on a major provider (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Experience data modeling for large-scale databases (relational or NoSQL).

Responsibilities

• Be a senior member of a data engineering team focused on distributed analytics across datasets.
• Apply knowledge of algorithms and data structures to continuously improve systems.
• Collaborate with top talent to solve complex, real-world challenges.
• Explore technology stacks to fit each dataset.
• Present work at relevant technical conferences.
• Project your talent into relevant projects; ideas over position.

Skills

Go programming

RESTful APIs

Unit Testing / TDD

Data modeling

Apache Kafka

Cloud infrastructure

Docker

Tools

Apache Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

Overview

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.

Job Title: IT Data Engineer

Location: St Louis, MO, 63146

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Description

What you will do is why you should join us

• Be a critical senior member of a data engineering team focused on creating distributed analysis capabilities around a large variety of datasets
• Take pride in software craftsmanship, apply a deep knowledge of algorithms and data structures to continuously improve and innovate
• Work with other top-level talent solving a wide range of complex and unique challenges that have real world impact
• Explore relevant technology stacks to find the best fit for each dataset
• Pursue opportunities to present our work at relevant technical conferences
• Project your talent into relevant projects. Strength of ideas trumps position on an org chart

If you share our values, you should have

• At least 7 years experience in software engineering
• At least 2 years experience with Go
• Proven experience (2 years) building and maintaining data-intensive APIs using a RESTful approach
• Experience with stream processing using Apache Kafka
• A level of comfort with Unit Testing and Test Driven Development methodologies
• Familiarity with creating and maintaining containerized application deployments with a platform like Docker
• A proven ability to build and maintain cloud based infrastructure on a major cloud provider like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform
• Experience data modeling for large scale databases, either relational or NoSQL

Bonus points for

• Experience with protocol buffers and gRPC
• Experience with: Google Cloud Platform, Apache Beam and or Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Kubernetes Engine or Kubernetes
• Experience working with scientific datasets, or a background in the application of quantitative science to business problems
• Bioinformatics experience, especially large scale storage and data mining of variant data, variant annotation, and genotype to phenotype correlation

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.