Data Engineer

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Grade: Technical 406

Pay Range: $98,300.00 - $147,400.00

Job Description

The principal function of the Associate Data Engineer is to build robust ETL/ ELT pipelines to make data available to Data Analysts, Data Scientists, and other internal business units. The Data Engineer will be responsible for coding and working through the development cycle of ETL/ELT jobs and BI reporting. They will understand business requirements and design optimal ETL/ELT process for data acquisition, transformation, and publication for ease of analysis.

The Data Engineer will follow agile development methodology for timely delivery of accurate data. They must have coding proficiency to write unit tests for pipeline functionality as well as data quality - this includes job monitoring, alerting, and code versioning and deployment. This position is also expected to develop, modify, and deploy formal and ad hoc reports.

Job Duties

Develops and builds ETL/ELT data pipelines for use in data analysis.

Creates and maintains optimal data pipeline architecture.

Keeps data separated and secure across multiple cloud environments.

Assembles large, complex data sets that meet functional and non-functional business requirements.

Delivers ad-hoc and analytical reports to internal users and teams.

Monitors and maintains ETL/ELT jobs and troubleshoots load issues.

Manages change requests/ticket queues for analytical reports and ETL/ELT jobs.

Performs data/technology discovery from new sources and third-party applications for data ingestion.

Creates complex reports and dashboards in Cognos and Tableau.

Ingests and transforms structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from sources including relational databases, NoSQL, external APIs, JSON, XML, delimited files, and more.

Works and delivers in agile methodology for new development projects. Delivers efficient and effective solutions on time.

Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

KSAs

Ability to analyze and understand data sources and design a data model for data capture and ETL/ELT

Ability to identify bugs and apply fixes and check data quality via process/pipeline audits

Ability to work with team members, as well as cross-team for product delivery

Ability to work in an agile environment with timely delivery of ETL/ELT pipelines... For full info follow application link.

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