Data Engineer

(Internally known as a Sr. Associate Technical Consultant)

AHEAD is looking for a Technical Consultant Data Engineer to work closely with our dynamic project teams (both on-site and remotely). This Data Engineer will be responsible for hands-on engineering of Data platforms that support our clients advanced analytics, data science, and other data engineering initiatives. This consultant will build, and support modern data environments that reside in the public cloud or multi-cloud enterprise architectures.

The Data Engineer will have responsibility for working on a variety of data projects. This includes orchestrating pipelines using modern Data Engineering tools/architectures as well as design and integration of existing transactional processing systems. As a Data Engineer, you will implement data pipelines to enable analytics and machine learning on rich datasets.

Responsibilities

A Data Engineer should be able to build, operationalize and monitor data processing systems
Create robust and automated pipelines to ingest and process structured and unstructured data from various source systems into analytical platforms using batch and streaming mechanisms leveraging cloud native toolset
Implement custom applications using tools such as Kinesis, Lambda and other cloud native tools as required to address streaming use cases
Engineers and supports data structures including but not limited to SQL and NoSQL databases
Engineers and maintain ELT processes for loading data lake (Snowflake, Cloud Storage, Hadoop)
Leverages the right tools for the right job to deliver testable, maintainable, and modern data solutions
Respond to customer/team inquiries and assist in troubleshooting and resolving challenges
Works with other scrum team members to estimate and deliver work inside of a sprint
Research data questions, identifies root causes, and interacts closely with business users and technical resources

Qualifications

3+ years of professional technical experience
3+ years of hands-on Data Warehousing
3+ years of experience building highly scalable data solutions using Hadoop, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake
2+ years of programming languages such as Python
3+ years of experience working in cloud environments (Azure)
2 years of experience in Redshift
Strong client-facing communication and facilitation skills

Key Skills

Python, Azure Cloud, Redshift, NoSQL, Git, ETL/ELT, Spark, Hadoop, Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Data Engineering, Snowflake, SQL/RDBMS, OLAP

Why AHEAD

Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

USA Employment Benefits include

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
401(k)
Paid company holidays
Paid time off
Paid parental and caregiver leave
Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.

The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (OTE) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidates relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.

Sr. Associate Technical Consultant, Data Engineer