Lead Data Engineer

Lead Data Engineer needed on-site in Madison, WI or Boston, MA for a large insurance client., * 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.

• Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service.
• Must have Google Cloud Platform 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.