Senior Data Engineer

Title: Senior Data Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Position: 2 Month (Contract)

Summary

Provide business insights, while leveraging internal tools and systems, databases and industry data

Roles & Responsibilities

• Ability to document requirements, data lineage, subject matter in both business and technical terminology.
• Guide and learn from other team members.
• Demonstrated ability to transform business requirements to code, specific analytical reports and tools
• This role will involve coding, analytical modeling, root cause analysis, investigation, debugging, testing and collaboration with the business partners, product managers other engineering team.

Minimum Qualifications

• Very Strong engineering skills. Should have an analytical approach and have good programming skills.

• Minimum of 5+ years' experience. Experience in retail business will be a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for varied audiences on engineering subject matter

Must Have

• Strong analytical background
• Self-starter
• Must be able to reach out to others and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong background in transforming big data into business insights

Technical Requirements

• Knowledge/experience on Teradata Physical Design and Implementation, Teradata SQL Performance Optimization
• Experience with Teradata Tools and Utilities (FastLoad, MultiLoad, BTEQ, FastExport)
• Advanced SQL (preferably Teradata)
• Experience working with large data sets, experience working with distributed computing (MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Apache Spark, etc.).
• Strong Hadoop scripting skills to process petabytes of data
• Experience in Unix/Linux shell scripting or similar programming/scripting knowledge
• Experience in ETL/ processes
• Real time data ingestion (Kafka)
• BS degree in specific technical fields like computer science, math, statistics preferred

Education