Sr Data Engineer (Contract)

Summary Of Responsibilities

The Senior Data Engineer will design, develop and maintain data infrastructures to redistribute, collect and centralize data from across company platforms. This role will lead technical discussions with business partners, ensure infrastructures adhere to organizational data standards, data pipelines are optimized and maintain data integrity. He/she will support team members with data-related technical issues, build analytical tools to help business partners answer business critical questions and mentor junior data engineers with work assignments.

Essential Duties
• Review business processes, data flows and strategies to develop a strong understanding of organizational data capabilities.
• Lead technical discussions with business leaders to understand and analyze needs. Identify data repository specifications and ensure alignment to organizational goals.
• Design and develop data infrastructures that redistribute, collect, connect and centralize data from across company platforms to help answer critical business question. Ensure new and existing infrastructures comply with organizational data requirements and standards.
• Test, debug and maintain data infrastructures to ensure data pipelines are optimized.
• Define, document and maintain technical information about data infrastructures to maintain data integrity and compliance with organizational data standards.
• Collaborate with team members to troubleshoot and support data-related technical issues.
• Design, build and modify analytical tools, such as dashboard or predictive models, that will provide actionable insights to key business performance metrics.
• Participate in meetings to provide updates on projects; to assist business partners with data interpretation and to follow-up on data-related needs.
• Evaluate and monitor data infrastructures to identify ways to improve data reliability, efficiency and quality.
• Mentor and coach junior data engineers to support work assignments and enhancing their skillsets.
• Stay abreast of emerging data engineering practices and technologies. Recommend and implement strategies to enhance organizational practices.
• This brief summary is not an all-inclusive description of job duties. Other job duties and responsibilities may also be assigned by the incumbent’s manager at any time based upon Company need.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

WORKING CONDITIONS
• Primarily working indoors, office environment.
• May sit for several hours at a time.
• Prolonged exposure to computer screens.
• Repetitive use of hands to operate computers, printers, and copiers.

Required Education And Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent work experience and/or education
• Minimum 7 years of progressive experience developing and maintaining data infrastructures
• Advanced proficiency with Structured Query Language (SQL)
• Experience working within Microsoft Azure environments
• Experience with web and commercial application program interfacing (API) development
• Proven ability to explain highly technical information into easily understood concepts
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Business Intelligence Stack (SQL Server, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, PowerBI)
• Strong proficiency with C# and .Net. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Strong understanding of relational database system

Preferred Education And Experience
• Microsoft Certified Professional a plus
• Experience working with Microsoft Azure Logic Apps
• Proficiency with Bootstrap
• Experience with web integration
• Experience working in a fast pace, high-growth company

Required Knowledge
• Computers— Knowledge of computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

Required Skills
• Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Systems Analysis — Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Systems Evaluation — Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
• Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Troubleshooting — Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
• Programming — Writing computer programs for various purposes.
• Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

WORK STYLES & BEHAVIORS
• Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
• Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
• Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
• Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
• Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
• Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.

FirstKey Homes is an equal opportunity employer and will not tolerate discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, genetic information or any other legally protected classification or status.

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