Lead Data Engineer

Job Description:

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 positon.
• 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.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

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