job summary:
We are looking for a Remote Data Engineer to join our Product team to design and build a robust set of tools and pipelines to support data analytics efforts.
location: Mc Lean, Virginia
job type: Permanent
salary: $95,000 - 135,000 per year
work hours: 9am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
- Develop technical solutions using proven techniques in data and analytics processes
- Develop, prototype, and build frameworks based on open source and commercially available tools
- Orchestrate and maintain data pipelines that meet security standards and ensure the integrity and quality of data
- Demonstrate a passion for serving the needs of internal and external customers by enabling them with self-service reporting tools and analytics capabilities
- Drive the execution of data initiatives that provide key performance metrics
- Understand the data related challenges, nuances, and requirements to identify and recommend the optimal technical approach
- Train and educate team members as well as stakeholders about best practices in data engineering and governance
- Collaborate closely with the engineering and devops team to implement DataOps, thus reducing our analytics development cycle
- Research and improve our data platform to ingest, process, transform, and distribute insightful data to our audience ranging from executives, analysts, and engineers to customers, vendors, and partners
- Evangelize data driven culture by breaking down silos and encouraging data sharing
qualifications:
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering for a SaaS company or a mature startup
- Proven experience working with various tools but more importantly, familiarity with how to best assemble and deploy production ready data stack to any cloud environment
- BS in a quantitative or scientific field such as computer science, computer engineering or equivalent experience
- Experience in applying agile software development approach
- Familiar with SQL and other popular programming languages
- Exceptional fluency with SQL; you conquered the join venn diagram long ago and have moved on to explaining cost based optimization to your peers on the engineering team
- Some level of experience working in the cloud
- Experience with ingesting, processing, and visualizing data sources of varying types - structured/relational and unstructured
- Experience in developing, managing, and manipulating large, complex datasets
- Data-driven, detail-oriented individual with excellent storytelling and problem-solving abilities
skills:
- Ability to work independently and autonomously, as well as part of a team
- Superb time management, prioritization of tasks and ability to meet deadlines with little supervision
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