Senior Data Engineer at Velocity Staff

Overland Park, Kansas, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

28 Feb, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

01 Dec, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Data Warehousing, Data Pipeline Creation, Analytical Reporting, Data Mining, AWS, Python, Terraform, Docker, Kafka, NoSQL, Relational Databases, Data Integration, Infrastructure As Code, Data Visualization, AWS Glue, Apache Spark

Industry

Staffing and Recruiting

Description

Overview Velocity Staff, Inc. is working with our client located in the Overland Park, KS area to identify a Senior Level Data Engineer to join their Data Services Team. The right candidate will utilize their expertise in data warehousing, data pipeline creation/support and analytical reporting and be responsible for gathering and analyzing data from several internal and external sources, designing a cloud-focused data platform for analytics and business intelligence, reliably providing data to our analysts. This role requires significant understanding of data mining and analytical techniques. An ideal candidate will have strong technical capabilities, business acumen, and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams. Responsibilities Work with Data architects to understand current data models, to build pipelines for data ingestion and transformation. Design, build, and maintain a framework for pipeline observation and monitoring, focusing on reliability and performance of jobs. Surface data integration errors to the proper teams, ensuring timely processing of new data. Provide technical consultation for other team members on best practices for automation, monitoring, and deployments. Provide technical consultation for the team with “infrastructure as code” best practices: building deployment processes utilizing technologies such as Terraform or AWS Cloud Formation. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience Proven experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g. Postgres, Redshift, MongoDB, Elasticsearch) Experience building and maintaining AWS based data pipelines: Technologies currently utilized include AWS Lambda, Docker / ECS, MSK Mid/Senior level development utilizing Python: (Pandas/Numpy, Boto3, SimpleSalesforce) Experience with version control (git) and peer code reviews Enthusiasm for working directly with customer teams (Business units and internal IT) Preferred but not required qualifications include: Experience with data processing and analytics using AWS Glue or Apache Spark Hands-on experience building data-lake style infrastructures using streaming data set technologies (particularly with Apache Kafka) Experience data processing using Parquet and Avro Experience developing, maintaining, and deploying Python packages Experience with Kafka and the Kafka Connect ecosystem. Familiarity with data visualization techniques using tools such as Grafana, PowerBI, AWS Quick Sight, and Excel.

Responsibilities

The Senior Data Engineer will work with data architects to build pipelines for data ingestion and transformation, and design a cloud-focused data platform for analytics. They will also provide technical consultation on best practices for automation and monitoring.