Senior Data Engineer

Capabilities and Credentials:

• Experience with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies.
• Passionate about helping business lines drive their success utilizing data.
• Inquisitive with a desire to ask questions and get a deeper understanding of business and data issues.
• Innovative, ability to imagine new engineering solutions to any problem.
• Confident, able to challenge perceptions and biases of individuals diplomatically at every level of the organization in order to enact improvements.
• Ability to communicate to both technical and non-technical people.
• Ability to effectively organize, plan, prioritize, and manage time and competing priorities.
• Ability to execute highly complex or specialized projects.
• Business-oriented with a solid understanding of business requirements and vernacular.
• Highly detailed when required.
• Stays abreast of current and upcoming technologies and tools.
• Experience and strong knowledge of data warehousing concepts, database (Relational and non-Relational) design and analytics platforms.
• Experience in data modeling, data design and persistence (e.g., data marts, data lakes).
• Experience with working with software engineering best practices for development, including source control systems, automated deployment pipelines like Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Jenkins and DevOps tools like Terraform, Azure DevOps.
• Experience with big data processing, such as Spark and Databricks.
• Experience with streaming solutions, such as Kafka and IoT Hub.
• Experience working with distributed technology tools, including Spark, Scala, Python.
• Experience deploying modern data solutions leveraging components in Azure like Function Apps, Logic Apps, Log Analytics, Data Factory, Data Bricks, Data Lake and more
• Docker experience is preferred.
• Experience with automated security tooling such as vulnerability scanning, intrusion detection and prevention.
• Experience in operating highly available and critical environments.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines.
• Proficient with Atlassian Suite; Jira and Confluence.

Education and Experience

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in business, IT, computer science, or another relevant area of study.
• 5+ years of experience designing and building reliable, scalable and maintainable data systems.
• 3+ years of experience in data modelling and ETL/ELT development.

Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
 

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