Data Engineer

What you will do:

The ideal candidate must be collaborative and deadline driven. Because of the nature of our work and our technology successful candidates must take a growth mindset and be comfortable with ambiguity with the ability to take a proactive structured approach to achieve results. Results-orientation and deadline driven are critical in our fast-paced environment.

The successful candidate will join a diverse team to:

• Build unique high-impact business solutions utilizing advanced technologies for use by world class clients.

• Create and maintain the underlying data pipeline architecture for the solution offerings from raw client data to final solution output.

• Create populate and maintain data structures for machine learning and other analytics.

• Use quantitative and statistical methods to derive insights from data.

• Guide the data technology stack used to build Enterra’s solution offerings.

• Combine machine learning artificial intelligence (ontologies inference engines and rules) and natural language processing under a holistic vision to scale and transform businesses — across multiple functions and processes.

Responsibilities Include:

• Work with other Enterra personnel to develop and enhance commercial quality solution offerings

  • Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture incorporating data wrangling and Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) flows.

  • Assemble large complex data sets to meet analytical requirements – analytics tables feature-engineering etc.

  • Build the infrastructure required for optimal automated extraction transformation and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and other ‘big data’ technologies such as Databricks.

  • Build automated analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to derive actionable insights.

  • Identify design and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes optimizing data delivery re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability etc.

  • Design and develop data integrations and data quality framework

  • Develop appropriate testing strategies and reports for the solution as well as data from external sources.

  • Evaluate new technology for use within Enterra.

• Work with other Enterra and client personnel to administer and operate client-specific instances of the Enterra solution offerings

• Configure the data pipelines to accommodate client-specific requirements to onboard new clients.

• Perform regular operations tasks to ingest new and changing data – implement automation where possible.

• Implement processes and tools to monitor data quality - investigate and remedy any data-related issues in daily solution operations.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a STEM (Science Technology Engineering or Math) field required

• Minimum of 3 years hands on experience as a data engineer or similar position.

• Minimum of 3 years commercial experience with Python or Scala Programming Language

• Minimum of 3 years SQL and experience working with relational databases (Postgres preferred).

• Experience with at least one of the following – Databricks Spark Hadoop or Kafka

• Demonstratable knowledge and experience developing data pipelines to automate data processing workflows

• Demonstratable experience in data modeling

• Demonstratable knowledge of data warehousing business intelligence and application data integration solutions

• Demonstratable experience in developing applications and services that run on a cloud infrastructure Azure preferred

• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced remote environment.

• Comfortable with ambiguity with the ability to build structure and take a proactive approach to drive results.

• Attention to detail – quality and accuracy in work is essential.

The following additional skills would be beneficial:

• Knowledge of one or more of the following technologies: Data Science Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Business Intelligence and Data Visualization.

• Knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical or BI packages for analyzing large datasets (Excel R Python Power BI Tableau etc.).

• Experience with container management and deployment e.g. Docker and Kubernetes