Senior Data Engineer

Our Customer’s mission is to create groundbreaking sports innovations, by making their products more sustainable, building a creative and diverse global team, and making a positive impact in communities where we live and work. Their purpose is to bring inspiration and innovation to unite the world through sport to create a healthy planet, active communities, and an equal playing field for all.

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer on a contract basis to support our customer's ongoing business needs. This role is 100% remote and candidates must be able to work in PST Time Zone.

What you’ll do:

• Design and build reusable components, frameworks, and libraries at scale to support analytics products
• Design and implement product features in collaboration with business and Technology stakeholders
• Anticipate, identify, and solve issues concerning data management to improve data quality
• Clean, prepare and optimize data at scale for ingestion and consumption
• Drive the implementation of new data management projects and re-structure of the current data architecture
• Implement complex automated workflows and routines using workflow scheduling tools
• Build continuous integration, test-driven development, and production deployment frameworks
• Drive collaborative reviews of design, code, test plans, and dataset implementation performed by other data engineers in support of maintaining data engineering standards
• Analyze and profile data for designing scalable solutions
• Troubleshoot complex data issues and perform root cause analysis to proactively resolve product and operational issues
• Mentor and develop other data engineers in adopting best practices
• Establishes database management systems, standards, guidelines, and quality assurance for database deliverables, such as conceptual design, logical database, capacity planning, external data interface specification, data loading plan, data maintenance plan, and security policy
• Documents and communicates database design
• Evaluates and install database management systems
• Codes complex programs and derives logical processes on technical platforms
• Builds windows, screens, and reports
• Assists in the design of user interface and business application prototypes
• Participates in quality assurance and develops test application code in a client-server environment
• Provides expertise in devising, negotiating, and defending the tables and fields provided in the database
• Adapts business requirements, developed by modeling/development staff and systems engineers, and develops the data, database specifications, and table and element attributes for an application
• At more experienced levels, helps to develop an understanding of the client's original data and storage mechanisms
• Determines appropriateness of data for storage and optimum storage organization
• Determines how tables relate to each other and how fields interact within the tables for a relational model

The ideal candidate must have:

• Experience with SQL (Snowflake) required
• Experience with Pyspark required
• Experience with AWS required
• ETL and database experience
• Experience with Python
• Must have experience with Business Requirements
• Data Management and Database Modeling experience preferred
• Capacity Planning and Swith Capacity experience preferred
• Experience with Conceptual Design and maintenance preferred
• User Interface and quality assurance experience preferred

Education:

• Bachelor's degree required

Hours & Location:

• M-F, 40 hours/week. This role is 100% remote and candidates must be able to work in PST Time Zone.

All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be legally authorized to work in the United States and are required to have US residency at the time of application.

Please note: In order to create a safe, productive work environment, our client is requiring all contractors who plan to be onsite to be fully vaccinated according to the CDC guidelines (please inform your employer if you need a medical or religious exemption). Prior to onboarding, contractors will be required to attest that they are fully vaccinated.

Perks are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of the waiting period for eligible engagements)

Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life (including spouse & child), 401k, STD/LTD, AD&D, and Commuter Benefits program.

The salary range for this position is: $59.32 - $74.32 per hour