Data Engineer

My client are seeking a Data Engineer.

Role Description

Work closely with a multidisciplinary Agile team to build high quality data pipelines driving analytic solutions. This role requires deep understanding of data architecture, data engineering, data analysis, reporting, and a basic understanding of data science techniques and workflows. The ideal candidate is a skilled data / software engineer with experience creating data products supporting analytic solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, optimize, and maintain data architecture and pipelines that adhere to ETL principles and business goals
• Solve complex data problems to deliver insights that helps our business to achieve their goals
• Create data products for analytics and data scientist team members to improve their productivity
• Advise, consult, mentor and coach other data and analytic professionals on data standards and practices
• Lead the evaluation, implementation and deployment of emerging tools and process for analytic data engineering in order to improve our productivity as a team
• Partner with business analysts and solutions architects to develop technical architectures for strategic enterprise projects and initiatives.

Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree required; Computer Science, MIS, or Engineering preferred
• Expertise in SQL and data analysis & experience with at least one programming language (Python or Scala preferred)
• Experience developing and maintaining data warehouses in big data solutions; developing solutions on cloud computing services and infrastructure in the data and analytics space (preferred)
• Database development experience using Hadoop or BigQuery and experience with a variety of relational, NoSQL, and cloud database technologies
• Worked with BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Shiny
• Conceptual knowledge of data and analytics, such as dimensional modelling, ETL, reporting tools, data governance, data warehousing, structured and unstructured data.
• Big Data Development experience using Hive, Impala, Spark and familiarity with Kafka (Preferred)
• Familiarity with the Linux operating system (Preferred)

Agile/ Digitial Experience

• Passionate about Agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and experimentation
• Experience working on a collaborative Agile product team

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