Role - Data Engineer
Location - (Remote to Start) Dallas, USA / Philadelphia, USA 

 
Primary Responsibilities:
Your responsibilities will include developing sustainable data driven solutions with current new generation data technologies to drive our business and technology strategies

• Design and implement Data Engineering Solutions and ETL Processes with the Azure stack including Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL Server, Databricks, Logic Apps, Service Bus
• Build data pipeline frameworks to automate high-volume batch and real-time data delivery
• Design Azure data ingestion frameworks and pipelines based on the specific needs driven by the Product Owners and user stories
• Continuously integrate and ship code into our cloud production environments
• Work directly with Product Owners and customers to deliver data products in a collaborative and agile environment
• Independently solve complex technical data engineering problems
• Building data APIs and data delivery services to support critical operational and analytical applications
• Contributing to the design of robust systems with an eye on the long-term maintenance and support of the application
• Leveraging reusable code modules to solve problems across the team and organization
• Handling multiple functions and roles for the projects and Agile teams
• Defining, executing and continuously improving our internal software architecture processes

 
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Education

• BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar
• Intermediate to senior level experience in a Data Engineering role. Demonstrated strong execution capabilities

 
Required

• Must have prior data engineering and ETL experience
• Expert knowledge and experience with T-SQL
• Hands on technology experience including Azure Data Factory, Data Lake (ADLS), Delta Lake, Databricks, Logic Apps, Service Bus
• Azure Synapse, Azure stream Analytics, Azure Event hub, Azure Analysis services & CosmosDB is a plus
• Significant experience with Azure SQL Server
• Demonstrated experience with best Agile Scrum SDLC practices: coding standards, reviews, code management, build processes, and testing.
• History of successfully developing software following an Agile methodology
• Search engine integration and data catalog/metadata store experience is preferred
• 5+ years of experience on designing and developing Data Pipelines for Data Ingestion or Transformation
• Exposure to File Format (Parquet, AVRO, ORC), Resource Management, Distributed Processing and RDBMS
• 5+ years of developing applications with Monitoring, Build Tools, Version Control, Unit Test, TDD, Change Management to support DevOps
• At least 2 years of experience with SQL and Shell Scripting experience

 
Preferred

• Development Environment with Cloud Technologies
• Experience with Azure DevOps CI\CD
• Experience working with a combined in house and outsourced team
• Experience working in a geographically separated team
• 2+ years’ experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Compute or another public cloud service
• 2+ years of experience working with Streaming using Spark or Kafka or NoSQL
• 2+ years of experience working with Dimensional Data Model and pipelines in relation with the same
• Intermediate level experience/knowledge in at least one scripting language (Python, Scala, Pyspark)
•  Hands on design experience with data pipelines, joining data between structured and unstructured data

 
Other

• Ability to work independently
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to present new ideas, approaches and information clearly
• Outstanding attention to detail and organizational skills
• Diligent work ethic and insatiable desire to learn and develop skills
• Ability to acquire new knowledge quickly
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Self-starter, highly motivated
• Excellent Time management skills
• Cultural sensitivity/awareness
• Successfully complete assessment tests offered in Pluralsight, Udemy, etc. or complete certifications to demonstrate technical expertise on more than one development platform.