Lead Data Engineer

Genesis10 is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to join the team. This is a hybrid 6- month contract position with a client located in Columbus OH

Compensation: $65-80/HR W2
Summary:

This role plays a pivotal role in building and operationalizing the minimally inclusive data necessary for the enterprise data and analytics initiatives following industry standard practices and tools. Data Engineers will also test for data quality to ensure clients data conforms to business rules and is accurate, complete, consistent, and uniform. This role's primarily focuses on building, managing and optimizing data pipelines and then moving these data pipelines effectively into production for key data and analytics consumers like business/data analysts, data scientists or any persona that needs curated data for data and analytics use cases across the enterprise.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Architecting, creating and maintaining data pipelines.
• Assist with renovating the data management infrastructure to drive automation in data integration and management.
• Work in partnership with data science teams and with business analysts in refining their data requirements for various data and analytics initiatives and their data consumption requirements.
• Train counterparts across the organization in data pipelining and preparation techniques, which make it easier for them to integrate and consume the data they need for their own use cases.
• Work with data governance teams and participate in vetting and promoting content created in the business and by data scientists to the curated data catalog for governed reuse.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex results to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in teams as well as independently across multiple tasks while meeting aggressive timelines.
• Strategic, intellectually curious thinker with focus on outcomes.
• Professional image with the ability to form relationships across functions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, statistics or related field, or equivalent related work experience.
• 4 years of related experience in data management disciplines including data integration, modeling, optimization and data quality, and/or other areas directly relevant to data engineering responsibilities and tasks
• 4 years of experience working in cross-functional teams and collaborating with business stakeholders in support of a departmental and/or multi-departmental data management and analytics initiative, experience with data preparation tools and database programming languages

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in computer science, statistics or related field
• Hands on data testing experience
• Strong experience with data engineering tooling (e.g., Glue, Landa, Athena, AWS)
• Strong experience with open-source and commercial data science platforms
• Learn and/or Agile methodology
• Strong experience with various Data Management architectures and processes
• Strong ability to design, build and manage data pipelines for data
• Strong experience in working with large, heterogeneous datasets in building and optimizing data pipelines, pipeline architectures and integrated datasets
• Demonstrated success in working with large, heterogeneous datasets to extract business value
• Strong experience in working with DevOps capabilities like version control, automated builds, testing and release management capabilities
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex results to technical and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in teams as well as independently across multiple tasks while meeting aggressive timelines
• Strategic, intellectually curious thinker with focus on outcomes
• Professional image with the ability to form relationships across functions
• Willingness and ability to learn new technologies on the job

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

About Genesis10:
Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.
For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client.

Benefits of Working with Genesis10:
Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20 years.
The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
Behavioral Health Platform
Medical, Dental, Vision
Health Savings Account
Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
Voluntary Term Life Insurance
401K
Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF)

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.

Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.