DATA ENGINEER POSITION DESCRIPTION The Data Engineer position is ideal for the technically oriented individual who has experience doing 'all things data', including designing data storage solutions, implementing data storage solutions, optimizing data storage solutions landing data, manipulating data and providing L2 support. In this role, you will collaborate with multiple organizations (Business Customers, Product Owners, Data Tech, IT) to convert business goals into data storage solutions.
This role will work in small, cross functional teams and embrace lean and agile practices, software best practices, software quality scanning, automated testing, and CI/CD.
Skills Required
Critical thinking and decision making
DA/DBA - Data Architecture (Data Design, Index Design, Referential Integrity)
DA/DBA - DB Create/Modify (DB Create/Modify tables, DDL export/import, Data export/import)
DA/DBA - Performance Tuning (DB-side identification of issues, SQL tuning, DB tuning)
Data Manipulation – GCP BigQuery, DBT
Data Pipeline Orchestration – Astronomer, GCP Cloud Scheduler
Strong communication – both verbal and written
Skills Preferred
DA/DBA - Data Steward – prior experience coordinating on-going landing of data
DA/DBA - Database Replication
DA/DBA - DB Create/Modify (Physical design)
DA/DBA – Security (FIM Groups, Ranger)
Data Manipulation - GCP (Big Query, Cloud Storage, Data Proc, etc.), Terraform, Airflow
Data Manipulation – PII (PII Policy, PII Scanning)
Data Manipulation – Python
Data Manipulation - Streaming data (Kafka, MQTT)
L2/L3 support experience
Experience Required
REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT: Identify, document, communicate and design per requirements.
DESIGN: Work with Data Product Owners to design data stores.
IMPLEMENT DATA STORES: Implement data stores on GCP, using DBT for transformations, BigQuery for data store and Astronomer for overall orchestration.
TEST: Participate in testing and adopt test driven development.
TUNE: Tune data stores (indexes, SQL queries) to improve performance.
L2 SUPPORT: Assist with customer inquiries and incidents/problems.
COLLABORATE: Work within/across teams.
Education Required
BA/BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
Education Preferred
DA/DBA - Data Steward – prior experience coordinating on-going landing of data
DA/DBA - Database Replication
DA/DBA - DB Create/Modify (Physical design)
DA/DBA – Security (FIM Groups, Ranger)
Data Manipulation - GCP (Big Query, Cloud Storage, Data Proc, etc.), Terraform, Airflow
Data Manipulation – PII (PII Policy, PII Scanning)
Data Manipulation – Python
Data Manipulation - Streaming data (Kafka, MQTT)
L2/L3 support experience
Additional Info At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way. We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years! FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused. We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies. Benefits Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:
Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
Vision
Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
Long Term Disability (100% paid)
Life Insurance (100% paid)
401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match
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