IO Datasphere, Inc. has been providing project management, software development and IT staff augmentation services to our clients in the Midwest and throughout the U.S. since 1996. We are an approved vendor on contract to provide software development and IT staff augmentation services for the States of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. We also provide these services to businesses, as well as local and county governments, in the Midwest and nationwide.

Our client is looking for a Data Engineer to contribute to the development of a modern data infrastructure.

Tasks

• Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and build out new integrations to support the increasing data volume and complexity.
• Extract, transform, and load data from raw unstructured data to consumable structured data.
• Implement processes and systems to monitor data quality, ensuring production data is always accurate and available for key stakeholders and business processes that depend on it.
• Write and curate documentation internally and externally around business rules for metrics.
• Collaborate as a contributing member of the Data Services Infrastructure working group.
• Develop data pipelines to ingest and load data from various sources
• Implement automated data quality checks and alerts
• Contribute to the development and planning of calculating school performance metrics
• Maintain a vendor data sync that helps school-based staff access student data
• Optimize data infrastructure to enable analysts across the district to access core data

NOTE: Candidates must be currently local to the Detroit area in order to be considered. Relocation not allowed. This person will be working ONSITE in a full-time capacity in Detroit, MI. Remote work is not an option. In-Person interview may be required.

Location: Detroit, MI (On-site)

Contract: 1+ years

Skills Required:

• 3+ years - Experience transforming raw data into useful data systems/platforms
• Experience building and operating distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets from multiple sources
• Expert command of SQL with experience building database tables
• Expert command of Python or similar analytical programming languages
• Experience compiling and maintaining technical documentation
• Experience communicating business requirements and project plans with internal clients
• A bachelor s or master's degree in computer science or a related technical field, and/or equivalent experience

***Rate depends on experience

*** Local candidates preferred, not mandatory

*** Candidates authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. We can accept H1b, , TN, and other valid work visas for IT. However, we cannot accept OPT or CPT visas at this time.

*** Companies submitting candidates should only submit direct W2 employees for this position.

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