Senior Data Engineer

Position: Senior Data Engineer

Location: Bentonville, AR

Duration: Contract

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will

• Design and develop big data applications using the latest open source technologies.

• Desired working in offshore model and Managed outcome

• Develop logical and physical data models for big data platforms.

• Automate workflows using Apache Airflow.

• Create data pipelines using Apache Hive, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka.

• Provide ongoing maintenance and enhancements to existing systems and participate in rotational on-call support.

• Learn our business domain and technology infrastructure quickly and share your knowledge freely and actively with others in the team.

• Mentor junior engineers on the team

• Lead daily standups and design reviews

• Groom and prioritize backlog using JIRA

• Act as the point of contact for your assigned business domain
Requirements:

GCP Experience

• 4+ years of recent GCP experience

• Experience building data pipelines in GCP

• GCP Dataproc, GCS & BIGQuery experience

• 10+ years of hands-on experience with developing data warehouse solutions and data products.

• 6+ years of hands-on experience developing a distributed data processing platform with Hadoop, Hive or Spark, Airflow or a workflow orchestration solution are required

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in modeling and designing schema for data lakes or for RDBMS platforms.

• Experience with programming languages: Python, Java, Scala, etc.

• Experience with scripting languages: Perl, Shell, etc.

• Practice working with, processing, and managing large data sets (multi TB/PB scale).

• Exposure to test driven development and automated testing frameworks.

• Background in Scrum/Agile development methodologies.

• Capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities with little supervision.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
The most successful candidates will also have experience in the following:

• Gitflow

• Atlassian products - BitBucket, JIRA, Confluence etc.

• Continuous Integration tools such as Bamboo, Jenkins, or TFS