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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** WEST Inc
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Salary:** $92,800.0 - $109,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Databases, Data Integrity, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Visualization, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Apache Hadoop, Oracle (Applications), Power BI, Tableau (Software), Talend, Test Data, Data Processing, Freeform SQL, Data Ingestion, Azure Data Factory, Informatica Powercenter, Snowflake, Apache Spark, AWS Glue, Apache Kafka, Semantic Modeling, Azure Synapse Analytics, Looker Analytics, Data Pipelines, Amazon Redshift, Databricks
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/fb05fa78-9370-4820-9b12-6a20a46df9f4

## About the Role

* 1 - 4 years of hands-on professional development experience
 * Experience writing complex SQL queries related to data manipulation strategies
 * Experience with Spark, Databricks, Kafka, Kinesis, Hadoop, and/or Lambda
 * Exposure using ETL tools (Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Informatica, Talend, IBM DataStage, etc.), and/or database platforms (Snowflake, Redshift, Azure Synapse, or Oracle)
 * Exposure to data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker)
 * Experience in technical testing, issue identification and resolution
 * Strong verbal and written communication skills
 * Ability to travel 30 to 50% to client sites
 * Hybrid role - 2 days a week in office

## Description

* Support projects leveraging an agile delivery model through requirements gathering and documentation, data ingestion pipeline development, and technical testing.
 * Contribute to project delivery in the following ways:
 + Add configurations for data enrichments such as lookups, type conversions, calculations, and concatenations
 + Add data quality rules
 + Connect to new data sources
 + Map multiple sources into a single output
 + Interpret error messages to troubleshoot data pipelines
 + Create outputs that facilitate reporting, dashboarding, and semantic modeling for tools such as Tableau and Power BI
 + Test data pipelines to ensure accuracy
 * Work closely with our clients as part of the development team to gather technical requirements and develop solutions
 * Coordinate activities with data source application owners to understand the underlying data, ensure integration and data integrity
 * Build relationships with clients through written and verbal communication


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