Job Description
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
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