Ampersand

Data Engineer

Job description

Ampersand is seeking a Data Engineer to join our Engineering Team. We are a collaborative team that love problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality products. Our Data Engineer will be responsible for managing our data analytics and data pipeline applications using Spark, RedShift, Scala and Python. We are looking for an experienced data pipeline builder with strong skills for data wrangling and optimizing data systems.
Your primary responsibility will be to design and build our data analytics and data pipeline system on Amazon Web Services technologies (AWS EMR, AWS Data Pipeline, Glue, RedShift, etc.), and to coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the applications.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
  • Design and build our data pipeline
  • Assemble, combine and transform large multiple complex data sets
  • Build analytics tools using the data pipeline to provide actionable insights to end users
  • Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
  • Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to mitigate and address these issues
  • Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
EDUCATION, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE:
  • Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures, data sets and tools (Hadoop, Spark, Presto, etc.)
  • Advanced SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases
  • Strong knowledge and experience working with AWS eco-system
  • Skill for writing reusable code
  • Familiar with various design and architectural patterns
  • Knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code
  • Experience implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
  • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as GIT

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