Talascend LLC | Hiring | IT: Senior Cloud Data Engineer – Remote, USA | Remote | United States | BigDataKB.com | 12 Oct 2022

Talascend is seeking a professional, skilled individual for our REMOTE Senior Cloud Data Engineer position.

About the Role:

If you are a self-starter, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and get energized about designing and implementing new cloud data solutions, then this job is for you!

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Cloud Data Engineer with a solid background in cloud development, data engineering and architecture, proven abilities to adapt to new technologies and methods and the ability to effectively collaborate with others. Using excellent communication skills, the Senior Engineer socializes technical designs and builds consensus with internal stakeholders.

The Senior Cloud Data Engineer plays a key role in the design and implementation of the Enterprise Data Ecosystem, a cloud-based architecture which provisions data to enable the delivery of services. The Senior Engineer works to design and implement the appropriate data solutions for database-driven applications and services. The Senior Engineer accomplishes this by performing analysis of current and future systems and services, educating on industry best practices and policies, creating proposed data and data movement designs, and working with the architecture and development teams to refine and implement these designs. The Senior Cloud Data Engineer also provides guidance to Data Engineers on data and data movement designs and processes for design review and implementation.

Currently, this position is 100% telework, however, as our company starts to return to our new normal, a hybrid work pattern, this position may be required to periodically work on-site at our office, and the frequency would depend on the department/division’s requirements. Therefore, candidates must either reside within a reasonable distance to commute to our office, or be willing to travel to our office in Herndon and/or Pittsburgh, when required.

How You Contribute:

• Demonstrate the competencies, which align with our corporate value Manager will provide more detail to candidates as needed.
• Core Competencies include: Customer Focus, Optimizes Work Processes, Collaborates, Communicates Effectively, and Be Open and Authentic.

Customer Focus:

• Research new technologies and make recommendations to management to help with customer expectations.
• Ensure that user expectations are met during the development and configuration process.
• Design and implement requirements-driven data solutions with focus on the integrity, availability, timeliness, and traceability of data through the delivery lifecycle.
• Ensure that user expectations are met during the development and configuration process.
• Research new technologies and make recommendations to management to help with customer expectations.

Optimizes Work Processes:

• Play a key role in establishing and applying enterprise data management principles and standards.
• Consider performance, data quality, data security, data governance, risk limitation and scalability in data engineering designs and implementation.
• Contribute to data architecture designs and data models to ensure alignment between designs and physical implementation of data assets and data movement scripts.
• Participate in the move toward Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery of cloud applications.
• Provide guidance to Data Engineers on data and data movement designs and related processes.

Collaborates:

• Design and implement solutions for capturing, managing, and publishing technical metadata about the data assets, including the ability to trace data lineage between source and target data structures in collaboration with the Chief Data Office and other business and technology partners.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of data management tools and platforms in collaboration with data architects, the infrastructure team, and other internal and external technology partners.
• Provide technical leadership on data projects, which includes coaching and training junior new staff.
• Contribute to data architecture designs and data models to ensure alignment between designs and physical implementation of data assets and data movement scripts.

Communicates Effectively:

• Understand business concepts and data transformation logic to write procedures that manage the data according to requirements.
• Actively participate in project level design reviews, Architecture Review Board (ARB) reviews, and provide feedback on design approaches being reviewed.
• Stay up to date on emerging technology and research new cloud-based data technologies, methods, and techniques to identify opportunities to increase the value of the data platforms.
• Write clear, concise, and accurate engineering documentation, and review data movement code to ensure that it transforms data correctly and that it meets the business requirements for data delivery.
• Update tasks on the scrum board with status, dependencies and blockers and communicate these items in daily stand-ups.

Be Open and Authentic:

• Demonstrate openness to new perspectives and ideas.
• Build trust with internal and external stakeholders by demonstrating consistency between words and actions.
• Position may be required to perform other duties as required. These essential functions are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the job. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

What You Bring to the Table:

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or Information Systems, or some equivalent combination of education and experience, including military service will also be considered.
• 10+ years of experience in Information Technology.
• 1–3 years of experience with cloud-based data delivery technologies, including NoSQL DB Platforms (AWS-specific experience preferred – Redshift, RDS, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, DMS, S3, Glue, Orchestration, etc.)
• Experience working across multiple deployment environments including cloud, on-premises and hybrid platforms.
• Familiarity with AWS CLI, Azure CLI, or similar interfaces.
• Proficiency (typically acquired with 5+ years of experience) in:
• Data engineering with an emphasis on data analytics and ETL coding.
• SQL, data transformations, analysis, and troubleshooting across multiple Database Platforms (Oracle, Redshift, Azure, PostgreSQL, etc.).
• Developing scripts using BASH, Python, etc.
• DevOps capabilities like version control, automated builds and release management using tools like GIT, SVN, Jenkins, etc.
• Database performance monitoring and SQL optimization.
• Database design, Data Warehousing, Master Data Management and Metadata solutions; Experience with Data Vault architecture preferred.
• Metadata management.
• Experience working with Agile development methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate technical and nontechnical messages to all levels of staff.
• Strong organizational skills (must be detail-oriented), and the demonstrated ability to resolve problems quickly and successfully.
• A team player, and the demonstrated ability to work independently and directly with the data owners to gather requirements and architect change.
• Demonstrates the core competencies: customer focus, optimizes work processes, communicates effectively, collaborates, and is open and authentic.
• Live within a commutable distance of Herndon, VA, Pittsburgh, PA, or may be performed remotely from any of the following states: AL, CA, CO, GA, FL, KY, ME, MD, NV, NJ, NC, NY, OH, PA, TN, TX, VA, WA, WY.
• Are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or have a good faith basis for seeking an exemption from this requirement.

Additional Desired Requirements:

• Advanced degree.

Experience with:

• Oracle technologies including Oracle database and ODI
• Cloud and open source-based data management technologies like AWS Redshift, DynamoDB, Postgres, Glue and Kinesis
• AWS, Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform Certification

Physical Demands:

• Use of a computer for 8 or more hours a day.
• Use of a copy machine, and telephone.
• Frequently required to sit for 7 or more hours per day, when in the office, may work in close proximity to others in an open office environment.
• Occasionally required to use hands and fingers to operate, handle, and reach.
• Vision abilities include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
• Must be able to work during maintenance windows, after business hours, and may be required to provide on-call remote, or 24/7 technical support.
• Must be able to travel occasionally via car, train, and/or airplane as needed (up to 10%).

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We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those qualified individuals who closely meet the qualifications of the position will be contacted. The details of the position are only a summary, other duties may be assigned as necessary.

Background Check and Drug Screen may be required.

Talascend is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.