Job Details
This is a contract-to-hire opportunity.
Preference is that candidates are local to Columbus or at least in the MidWest region.
Fully remote.
Our direct client is looking for a Data Engineer to help support the IT organization s data strategy in support of their business customers, as well as internal initiatives. If you are a Data Person , who knows how to build data pipelines, aggregate data from multiple sources into a common data store and have experience with industry-leading cloud data platforms and scripting, we d love to talk with you.
The Data Engineer will work closely with Client s IT Data Architect, Integration Engineers, Business Operations customers, and Services Partners to help advance their data and analytics ambitions.
This role will serve as a hands-on contributor and be a thought leader in the areas of data engineering, cloud data strategy, Business Intelligence, Data Modeling and ETL/ELT.
Responsibilities:
- with the IT Data Engineering Team and assist in developing the next generation data and analytics infrastructure.
- have strong SQL modeling skills (dbt is a plus)
- high quality SQL code to retrieve and analyze data from database tables (primarily Databricks)
- high quality SQL models for ad-hoc requests, as well as ongoing reporting / dashboarding.
- directly with business stakeholders to translate between data and business needs.
- improve SQL models through automating or simplifying self-service support for datasets
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, or other similarly technical related field Mathematics, or specialized training/certification. Or equivalent work experience.
- 1- 3-year minimum professional experience in cloud data engineering and science and associated technologies utilizing cloud data platforms such as Databricks, AWS RedShift, and Snowflake.
- 1 - 3-year minimum experience with advanced SQL data modeling and query optimization
- Proficiency in using visualization tools such as Tableau, Domo, or Power BI.
- Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Strong verbal, written & presentation skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex technical information to personnel at all levels of the organization.
Nice to have:
- Specific experience with Data Warehouse/Data Lake configuration and development using Databricks platform.
- Experience with Tableau / Sigma Computing
- operating in an Agile development environment.
- with usage of Agile tools (JIRA / Confluence)
- of CI/CD deployment models and release strategy as well as SCM tools (Git preferred) and code management best practices.
- in AWS environment.
- with cloud ELT platforms such as AWS Glue, Talend Stitch, or FiveTran