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Robert Half Senior Data Engineer in New Brighton, Minnesota
Description
We are offering a contract employment opportunity for a proficient as a Senior Data Engineer. In this role, you will be instrumental in ensuring the smooth integration of data from various sources to facilitate robust analytics and business intelligence within the Information Technology sector. You will be working in a team-oriented environment, playing a pivotal role in designing, developing, and supporting our data ingestion pipelines.
Responsibilities:
• Develop, optimize, and maintain data processing scripts and applications using Python to support big data ingestion tasks.
• Utilize cloud data warehouses, such as Snowflake and AWS, to ensure optimal performance, security, and scalability of data pipelines.
• Assist in architecting and implementing Extract-Load-Transform (ELT) processes, including Fivetran, HVR, and AWS Lambda functions, to ensure efficient and accurate data loading between systems.
• Utilize Snowflake's functionality of tasks, streams, stored procedures, dynamic tables, and dbt (data build tool) to model raw data into a consumable format for data engineers, analysts, and scientists.
• Understand business processes, data flows, and strategies, working collaboratively to meet data needs.
• Produce, maintain, and encourage high-quality documentation to ensure transparency and understanding of data ingestion pipelines and solutions.
• Understand, monitor, and enhance data ingestion flows to enable reporting and insights development, including tracking data and job statuses.
• Mentor and guide other team members, advising on best practices around data ingestion pipelines and procurement of data based on use-cases for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and development within the team.
Requirements • Must possess strong documentation and reporting skills.
• Proficiency in data analytics is required.
• Must have a deep understanding of quality assurance in data engineering.
• Should be able to handle task scheduling efficiently.
• Capable of creating and delivering effective presentations.
• Familiarity with the concept of 'About Time' is necessary.
• Must exhibit strong leadership skills.
• Proficiency in data security and procurement is required.
• Must have a solid background in engineering practices.
• Excellent communication skills are a must.
• Optimization skills are necessary, particularly in the context of data engineering.
• Must be proficient in SQL and Python.
• Experience with cloud technologies is a must.
• Must have familiarity with monitoring tools.
• Understanding of best practices in programming is required.
• Should be capable of providing oversight on complex data engineering projects.
• Bachelor's degree in computer sciences or a related field is a must.
• Must understand business process functions.
• Experience with AWS technologies is highly desirable.
• Must be able to work effectively within a business unit. Technology Doesn't Change the World, People Do.®
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