Sr. Data Engineer

Insight Global is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join the Data Analytics team at one of our logistics company clients. This person will collaborate closely with multiple stakeholders across the enterprise and Information Technology (IT) group to ensure the most important data is accessible and well-understood., The Senior Data Engineer designs, develops, implements, and supports new and existing highly efficient ELT/ETL processes and data sets. Other responsibilities include working closely with data consumers, solution architects, security and governance teams to implement solutions to answer complex questions and drive business decisions. Apply your proven communication skills, problem-solving skills, and knowledge of best practices in designing, developing, and deploying data and analytic solutions. Senior Data Engineers need to be adept in several technical and business skills. These include working with diverse datasets, parsing and understanding data, working with domain experts, data scientists and analysts in framing the business problems and provisioning integrated data quickly across multiple environments. Senior Data Engineers need to be inquisitive and motivated to learn modern technologies and capabilities which could benefit the organization and lead the effort in evaluating the technology for acceptance. Senior Data Engineers also assist the business data science efforts with source data, building data sets, helping evaluate models and integrating analytics and data science model outputs into business processes., Hybrid cloud environment: the Senior Data Engineer works in a hybrid cloud ecosystem,

composed of Azure, Oracle and on-premises technologies, building and supporting data and

analytics solutions. The Senior Data Engineer will need to learn the data, tools and capabilities

resident in this hybrid ecosystem, such as Synapse, Data Lakes, Dedicated Pool, Azure ML,

SQL Server, SSIS and SSAS.

• Build data pipelines: Managed data pipelines consist of a series of stages through which data

flows. Designing, building and maintaining data pipelines, in Azure and the on-premises

ecosystems, will be the primary responsibility of the data engineer.

• Drive data centric decision making: Assists with enhancing the data and metadata

management infrastructure to ensure data quality, accessibility and security.

• Collaborate across departments: Collaborates with business data consumers, of various skill

levels, in refining their requirements for various data and analytics initiatives. This collaboration

can lead to building enterprise data products, enabling data-driven decision making.

• Lead, educate and train: Be curious and knowledgeable about innovative technologies and

data initiatives. Research and propose data ingestion, preparation, integration and

operationalization tools or techniques to aid these initiatives. Train team members, data

consumers, data scientists and data analysts in these technologies and preparation

techniques.

• Participate in ensuring compliance and governance during data use: Data engineers work

with data governance teams (and information stewards within these teams) in building, vetting

and promoting content, which adheres to data governance and compliance initiatives.

• Become a data and analytics evangelist: The Senior Data Engineer is a blend of

data and analytics “evangelist,” “guru” and “fixer.” This role promotes the available data and

analytics capabilities and expertise to business unit leaders educating them in leveraging these

capabilities in achieving their business goals.

A bachelor’s in computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, data management,

information systems, information science or a related quantitative field [or equivalent work

experience]

• The ideal candidate will have a combination of IT, data governance, analytics, and

communication skills.

• At least 5 years or more of work experience in data management disciplines including data

integration, modeling, optimization, data quality and/or other areas directly relevant to data

engineering responsibilities and tasks.

• At least 5 years of experience working in cross-functional teams and collaborating with

business stakeholders in support of a departmental and/or multi-departmental data

management and analytics initiative.

• Strong experience with various languages and advanced analytics tools such as SQL, Python,

PowerBI, Microsoft SSIS/SSAS, Azure Synapse and others.

• Strong ability to design, build and manage data structures and pipelines for encompassing data

transformation, data models, schemas, metadata and workload management. Work with both

IT and business in integrating analytics and data science output into business processes and

workflows.

• Strong experience in working with large, heterogeneous datasets in building and optimizing

data pipelines, pipeline architectures and integrated datasets using data integration

technologies, including ETL/ELT, data replication/CDC, message-oriented data movement, API

design and development. - An advanced degree in computer science (MS), statistics, information science (MIS), data

management, information systems, information science (post-graduation diploma or related) or

a related quantitative field [or equivalent work experience]