Data Engineer

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
A Data Engineer is a data and technology expert supporting the broader Data Engineering team.  The primary responsibility of a Data Engineer is to develop, maintain, and support data ingestion pipelines.  Candidates that succeed in this role have a passion for technology and innovation, and understand the business value and meaning behind the data they work with.  An ideal candidate should have a proven history as a strong independent contributor that designs source to target pipelines in a cloud first environment.  

Responsibilities include, but may not be limited to the following:

• Collaborate with business users to gather requirements, write functional and technical specifications and communicate technical requirements.
• Develop, configure, and support complex SQL and/or ETL solutions within various computing environments and pipelines. 
• Define new capabilities and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Document and comment code from design to completion to assist in future understanding of solutions.
• Perform technical reviews of code to maintain consistent technical direction and minimize system impact on production pipeline.
• Ability to work with stakeholders to identify high priority items and to allocate time effectively to meet expected deadlines.
• Provide support for production data pipelines and associated technology

TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIRED

• Expertise in SQL is required; Must be comfortable working with large structured and unstructured datasets, and writing complex SQL logic to achieve the desired output.
• Background in end-to-end data pipeline development and deployment with at least 1+ year hands-on experience with cloud platforms required.  Familiarity with SQL orchestration tools like Airflow and cloud platforms like Snowflake, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure highly preferred.
• Hands on development experience using ETL tools and code repositories required.  
• Experience with programming languages such as C# and Python.
• Experience with modern BI Reporting platforms (such as Tableau, Power BI) preferred.

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of 3 years of full-time work experience in data field
• Bachelor’s degree in technical field highly preferred 
• Candidates must have the ability to uphold and demonstrate the highest level of integrity in all situations and recognize standards required by a regulated business 
   

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