Lead Data Engineer

Lead Data Engineer

Beacon Technologies is seeking a Lead Data Engineer for our client partner. This is a hybrid role located in Madison, WI. Primary Accountabilities:

- Leads an engineering team to meet project deadlines and priorities.

- Supervises assigned data engineering team members & activities.

- Ensures the quality, completeness, security, privacy, and integrity of data throughout the data lifecycle.

- Documents critical workflows and operational support aspects of team's responsibilities

- Develops deep understanding of data sources, granularity, availability, and limitations.

- Provides proactive technical oversight and advice to application architecture and development teams fostering re-use, design for scale, stability, and operational efficiency of data/analytical solutions.

- Creates maintainable, scalable code to load and manipulate data in the data warehouse.

- Facilitates communication upward and across project teams and business stakeholders.

Specialized Knowledge & Skills Requirements:

- Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service.

- Must have GCP experience for this position.

- In-depth knowledge of SQL or NoSQL and experience using a variety of data stores (e.g. RDBMS, analytic database, scalable document stores)

- Extensive hands-on Python programming experience, with an emphasis towards building ETL workflows and data-driven solutions.

- Able to employ design patterns and generalize code to address common use cases.

- Capable of authoring robust, high quality, reusable code and contributing to the division's inventory of libraries.

- Expertise in big data batch computing tools (e.g. Hadoop or Spark), with demonstrated experience developing distributed data processing solutions.

- Knowledge of open-source machine learning toolkits, such as sklearn, SparkML, or H2O.

- Solid data understanding and business acumen in the data rich industries like insurance or financial

- Applied knowledge of data modeling principles (e.g. dimensional modeling and star schemas).

- Strong understanding of database internals, such as indexes, binary logging, and transactions.

- Experience using tools for infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Docker, CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.)

- Experience with software engineering tools and workflows (i.e. Jenkins, CI/CD, git).

- Practical experience authoring and consuming web services.

About Beacon Technologies:

Are you looking to advance your career in information technology? Beacon Technologies offers career advancement opportunities, extensive training, and excellent benefits including paying for health and dental premiums for salaried employees. In addition to providing interesting opportunities, Beacon Technologies provides that old fashioned, personal touch, so you feel like a part of the Beacon team.

Beacon Technologies, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer with a functioning Affirmative Action Plan. It is the policy of Beacon Technologies, Inc. to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, ethnicity, ancestry, disability, medical condition, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Beacon Technologies, Inc. prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.