Senior Data Engineer (Consultant) — Cloud, Big Data & Analytics

Thinkahead; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401(k)

Paid company holidays

Paid time off

Paid parental and caregiver leave

Job summary

AHEAD is seeking a Senior Data Engineer (consultant) to work with project teams on-site and remotely, shaping data platforms for analytics and data science. You will lead design, build, and support of modern data environments in cloud or multi-cloud architectures, providing technical leadership and project delivery.

You will design data pipelines, automate ingestion and processing, build ELT into data lakes, and engineer APIs to enterprise applications, while communicating with leadership and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional technical experience.
• 4+ years in Data Architecture and Data Modelling.
• 4+ years building scalable data solutions with Hadoop, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake.
• 4+ years programming in Python.
• 2+ years cloud experience (AWS and/or Azure).
• Strong client-facing communication and facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operationalize, secure, and monitor data processing systems.
• Create robust pipelines to ingest and process data from source systems using batch and streaming, on cloud-native tools.
• Implement apps using Kinesis, Lambda, and other cloud-native tools for streaming use cases.
• Engineer and support data structures including SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Engineer ELT loading into data lake (Snowflake, Cloud Storage, Hadoop).
• Engineer APIs to expose data to Enterprise Applications.
• Choose right tools to deliver testable, maintainable modern data solutions.
• Respond to customer/team inquiries and assist in troubleshooting.
• Work with scrum team to estimate and deliver in sprint.
• Research data questions, identify root causes, and interact with business users and technical resources.

Skills

Python

Data Architecture

Data Modeling

Spark

Hadoop

ETL/ELT

SQL

NoSQL

Data Engineering

Cloud

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Hadoop

Spark

Kinesis

Lambda

Job description

AHEAD is seeking a Senior Data Engineer (consultant) to work with project teams on-site and remotely, shaping data platforms for analytics and data science. You will lead design, build, and support of modern data environments in cloud or multi-cloud architectures, providing technical leadership and project delivery.

You will design data pipelines, automate ingestion and processing, build ELT into data lakes, and engineer APIs to enterprise applications, while communicating with leadership and