Associate - Data Engineer

Responsibilities

JOB DESCRIPTION

— Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture.

— Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.

— Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.

— Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources

— Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, and other key business performance metrics.

— Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.

— Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.

— Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.

— Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.

Qualifications

— 1+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role, who has attained a Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field. They should also have experience using the following software/tools:

 Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.

 Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.

 Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.

 Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift

 Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.

 Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.

— Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.

— Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ 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.

— Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.

— Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.