Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Headquartered in Ogden, UT, Becklar is the parent company of AvantGuard Monitoring and Freeus. Our mission is to save lives through our state-of-the-art mobile personal emergency response systems (mPERS) and alarm monitoring centers. Freeus is an award winning wholesale provider of mobile personal emergency response systems (mPERS). We develop two-way voice mPERS that work both inside the home and away from home, offering peace of mind to seniors and their caregivers. AvantGuard is one of the largest and fastest growing monitoring companies in the nation. We monitor alarms (security, fire, medical, environmental, IoT) and we are are growing at over 100,000 accounts per year. What makes us stand out is that We Care FIRST about our employees and our customers and you get to join a team that helps save lives every day!

We are at the cutting edge of technology working in IOT and AI and with our rapid growth we are looking to add a Data Engineer to the Solutions software development team. In this role you will be responsible for partnering with IT teams to build critical data infrastructure, data pipelines, ad hoc data analyses, troubleshoot data and support project teams during all stages of projects including requirement gatherings, gap reviews, development and testing.

In addition to a competitive salary, you will enjoy:

• Medical, vision, and dental benefits
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• 3+ weeks of paid time off
• Company-paid Life and AD&D insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability benefits
• Work-from-home ability
• Tons of growth opportunities
• Other perks such as free snacks, company parties and events, an awesome team, and more

What You'll Do:

• Create and maintain tools supporting self-service data pipeline management

• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources

• Build and maintain data pipelines from internal databases and SaaS applications

• Write maintainable, performant code

• Collaborate with other domains to ensure data needs are addressed

• Maintain and expand data infrastructure for the business at scale

• Maintain our data warehouse with timely, high quality data

• Determine operational feasibility of business requirements

• Document and maintain data environment functionality

• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems

• Deploy programs and evaluate user feedback

• Comply with project plans and industry standards

Skills Needed

• Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Technology, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience

• 2+ years experience deploying production quality code, including experience in or close proximity to a data engineering, data science, or data analytics

• Experience with data modeling, data warehousing, and building ETL pipelines

• Experience with SQL and JavaScript frameworks (Angular, Vue)

• Experience with RESTful APIs (C#, .NET Core)

• Experience working in an agile environment that is human-centered (Scrum + Design Thinking)

• Experience with test-driven development (TDD)

• Ability to drive technical architecture discussions and help inform decisions.

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and opinions.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with peers and non-technical cohorts

• Demonstrate understanding of how business requirements impact technical requirements

• Results-oriented, creative-problem solver

• Ability to take ownership and meet deadlines

• Attention to detail, focus, follow-up and follow-through