Data Engineer

SoHo DragonBoston, MA, US

15 hours ago

Job type

Full-time

Job description

Job Description

Salary :

Position : Data Engineer

Location : Boston, MA(Hybrid 3x in office)

Employment Type : Contract-to-hire

Contract Duration : 1-2 years

The data engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the systems and infrastructure needed for data storage, processing, and analysis. The data engineerwill work with a multidisciplinary Agile team to build high-quality data pipelines, generate insights from connected data, and advance the company's data-driven decision- makingcapabilities.

Responsibilities :

Designs, develops, optimizes, and maintains data architectureand pipelines that adhere to ELT principles and business goals.

Solves complex data problems to delivers insights that helpsbusiness achieve its goals.

Creates data products for engineer, analyst, and data scientistteam members to accelerate their productivity.

Engineer effective features for modelling in close collaborationwith data scientists and businesses.

Leads the evaluation, implementation and deployment ofemerging tools and process for analytics data engineering inorder to improve productivity as a team and quality.

Partners with machine learning engineers, BI, and solutionsarchitects to develop technical architectures for strategicenterprise projects and initiatives.

Fosters a culture of sharing, re-use, design for scale stability,and operational efficiency of data and analytical solutions.

Advises, consults, mentors, and coach other data and analyticprofessionals on data standards and practices.

Develops and delivers communication and education plans onanalytic data engineering capabilities, standards, andprocesses.

Learns about machine learning, data science, computer vision,artificial intelligence, statistics, and / or applied mathematics asnecessary to carry out role effectively.

Key Skills :

Experience in building data pipelines and deploying / maintaining them following modern DE best practices -target tech stack : Python OSS Data Ecosystem (PySpark, pandas, Dash); knowledge of SQL, DBT is a plus
Experience with designing and maintaining data warehouses and / or data lakes with big data technologies suchas Spark / Databricks, or distributed databases, like Redshift and Snowflake, and experience with housing,accessing, and transforming data in a variety of relational databases
Strong understanding of agile methodologies and experience as a Data Engineer on a cross-functional agile

team preferred

Software Engineering fundamentals and software development tooling (e.g., Git, CI / CD, JIRA) and familiarity

with the Linux operating system and the Bash / Z shell

Experience with cloud database technologies (e.g., Azure) and developing solutions on cloud computing

services and infrastructure in the data and analytics space

Basic familiarity with BI tools (e.g., Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI, Looker)

Experience working in data engineering or data architect role

Qualifications &Technical Skills

Bachelors degree in computer science, statistics, engineering, or a related field

3+ years experience as a Data Engineer, preferably in a large organization

Interpersonal Mindset & Behaviors

Focused on agile delivery with a fail-fast, succeed early mindset and measurable outcomes

Flexibility to changes in work direction as the project develops according to highest-priority business needs

Strong work ethic; ability to work at an abstract level and gain consensus

Exemplary organizational skills with attention to detail, access, and quality assurance

Excellent communication and listening skills, collaborating closely with multidisciplinary team members

Have a can do attitude and thrive on a test and learn mentality

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