Sr Big Data Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with other data and analytics team members to optimize the company’s data systems and pipeline architecture
• Design and build the infrastructure for data extraction, preparation, and loading of data from a variety of sources.
• Build data and analytics tools that will offer deeper insight into the pipeline, allowing for critical discoveries surrounding key performance indicators and customer activity
• Always angle for greater efficiency across all of our company data systems

Qualifications:

• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent quantitative field and 5+ years of experience in a similar Data Engineer role.
• Experience building and optimizing ‘big data pipelines’, architectures and data sets.
• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Experience working with and extracting value from large, disconnected and/or unstructured datasets
• Demonstrated ability to build processes that support data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to project manage and work with cross-functional teams
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
• Experience with the following tools and technologies:
  • Hadoop, Spark, Kafka,
  • Relational SQL and NoSQL databases
  • AWS cloud services such as Glue, Lakeformation, EC2, RDS and Redshift
  • Stream-processing systems such as Storm and Spark-Streaming
  • Object-oriented/object function scripting languages such as Python, Java, C++, etc.

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Time Type: Full time

Job Type: Permanent