Data Engineer - Wilmington, DE - Georgia IT Inc.

Job Title               : Data Engineer
Location               : Wilmington, DE
Position Type       : Contract  

US Citizen, Green Card, TN, GC EAD and H4 EAD only No Third-party agencies corp to corp.

DESIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS:

·        Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Apache Spark, Kafka, etc.
·        Experience with relational SQL, Snowflake and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
·        Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: NiFi, Kylo, Luigi, Airflow, Azkaban etc.
·        Experience with AWS cloud services: S3, EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift
·        Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
·        Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, PySpark, Scala, etc.

Responsibilities for Data Engineer:

·        Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture,
·        Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
·        Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
·        Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS 'big data' technologies.
·        Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
·        Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
·        Keep our data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions.
·        Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.
·        Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.

Qualifications for Data Engineer:

·        Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
·        Experience building and optimizing 'big data' data pipelines, architectures and data sets.
·        Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
·        Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
·        Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.
·        A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.
·        Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable 'big data' data stores.
·        Strong project management and organizational skills.
·        Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.