Senior Data Engineer

Overview

Remote
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 year(s)

Skills

DBT
AWS
Apache Airflow
Python
SQL
Data Modeling
Data Warehousing
ETL
Data Pipelines
CI/CD
Git
Data Lakes
AWS S3
AWS Redshift
AWS Glue
AWS Lambda
AWS CloudWatch
Pandas
NumPy
Jinja
Data Security

Job Details

  • AWS Expertise:
    • Data STORAGE solutions:
      • In depth understanding of AWS S3 for data storage, including best practices for organization and security
      • Experience with AWS redshift for data warehousing and performance optimization
    • Data Integration:
      • Familiarity with Aws glue for ETL processes and orchestration -Nice to have
      • Experience with AWS lambda for serverless data processing tasks
    • Workflow Orchestration:
      • Proficiency in using Apache Airflow on AWS to design ,schedule and monitor complex data flows
      • Ability to integrate Airflow with AWS services and DBT models such as triggering a DBT model or EMR or reading from s3 writing to redshift
    • Data Lakes and Data warehousing:
      • Understanding the architecture of data lakes vs data warehouses and when to use each
      • Experience with amazon Athena for querying data directly in s3 using SQL
    • Monitoring and Logging:
      • Familiarity with AWS cloud watch for monitoring the pipelines and setting up alerts for workflow failures
    • Cloud Security:
      • Knowledge of AWS security best practices ,including IAM roles, encryption, DBT profiles access configurations

Programming Skills:

  • Python:
    • Proficiency in Pandas and NumPy for data analysis and manipulation
    • Ability to write scripts for automating ETL processes and scheduling jobs using airflow
    • Experience in creating custom DBT macros using jinja and Python allowing for reusable components within dbt models
    • Knowledge on how to implement conditional logic in DBT through python
  • SQL:
    • Advanced SQL skills, including complex joins ,window functions, CTE s and subqueries

Experience in optimizing SQL queries for performance and optimization

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