Senior Data Engineer
Location: May work remotely from anywhere in the U.S. (HQ: Aurora, CO)
Job duties:
- Design, build and execute data pipelines
- Build the configurable ETL framework
- Use engineering best practices following an Agile methodology to deliver high-quality emerging tech solutions
- Analyze and profile data to construct best in class data models
- Optimize SQL queries to maximize system performance
- Provide guidance and support to junior developers
- Troubleshoot bugs and data quality issues
- Collaborate with departments across the organization
- Elicit and document technical requirements
- Utilize agile project management software
- Oversee and execute CI/CD pipeline (continuous integration and continuous deployment)
Education and Experience required: Bachelor of Science degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Technology or a closely related technical field and 5 years of data engineering experience.
Five (5) years in:
1) Modern database technologies;
2) Modern programming languages such as Python or Java;
3) SDLC experience in an Agile environment;
4) APIs, CI/CD, Big Data, data architecture and governance;
5) Cloud technologies and platforms such as GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Snowflake, and Azure;
6) Transforming data using SQL and communicating info through data visualization and reporting;
7) Loading (FCS) flow cytometry standard data;
8) File formats like CSV, Parquet, and Json;
9) Ingesting and engineering with large and complex healthcare datasets;
10) Gathering requirements from business and end users and develop technical design of new systems;
11) Jenkins, GitHub, Jira, and Big Data technologies such as Spark or similar technology;
12) Using IDEs such as PyCharm, Eclipse, JBoss, and IntelliJ; and
13) Relational database experience.
Rate of pay: $150,000 to $160,000 per year
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