Data Engineer II

Job Title: Data Engineer II 

Duration: 5 Months

Location: New York, NY 10018 

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Hybrid 

Job Description:

Impact 

• Our retail business teams work with a massive array of vendors and business financial performance metrics to expand selection and drive costs lower. Given the rapid growth of our business, this requires our category leaders, financial analysts, site merchandisers and vendor managers to quickly analyze vendors, categories and brands, diving deep into data showing business efficiency down to the unit sale level. The technology that enables this has huge visibility and impact and is critical to Client's continued profitability and growth. 

Innovation

• We're working on the future. If you are seeking an environment where you can drive innovation. If you want to apply state-of-the-art software technologies to solve real world problems. If you want the satisfaction of providing visible benefit to end-users in an iterative fast paced environment, this is your opportunity. The responsibilities of this role will be key in paving the future of Client Retail and transforming how we do business. 

Opportunity 

• You will be part of a team of creative, top-notch software developers to work hard, have fun, and make history. Software engineers at Client are more than just order takers; they see a problem and leverage innovative technology to address it. You will be working with very large data sets, well beyond the scalability limits of conventional relational databases. We're looking for people who innovate, love solving hard problems, and never take no for an answer. 

Responsibilities

• As a Data Engineer you will be working in one of the complex data warehouse environments.
• You will be developing and supporting the analytic technologies that give our customers timely, flexible and structured access to their data.
• Be part of a high performance, high profile team with a complete, entirely localized business charter to enhance business profitability for the Client Consumer business.
• Research new technologies regularly and invest for the future of our scalability 

Reason for Request:

• Adding support to current team to work on current Large Scale project to deliver priorities for targeted Q3 and Q4 Dates.

Surrounding Team and Key Projects:

• These four Data Engineer contractors will help completing integration of P&L data within Ripple to ensure 2K+ decision makers within Client have timely and comprehensive P&L data via Turismo.
• Project is to ensure the migration of the P&L data to Client's Chronical Platform by targeted Q3/Q4 dates. 

Daily Schedule / OT Expectations:

• M-F 9-5 / Up to 5 HRS / WK OT Possible due to supporting West Coast Clients 

Interaction with Team:

• Heavily Collaborative role with immediate team, Clients and other support teams.

Typical Task Breakdown:

• Developing and supporting the analytic technologies that give our customers timely, flexible and structured access to their data.
• Research new technologies regularly and invest for the future of our

Desired Leadership Principles:

• Deliver Results
• Innovate
• Think Big

Degrees / Certs and/or Experience Required:

• 3+ years of data engineering experience
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
• Experience with AWS technologies like Redshift, S3, AWS Glue, EMR, Kinesis, FireHose, Lambda, and IAM roles and permissions.
• Experience with non-relational databases / data stores (object storage, document or key-value stores, graph databases, column-family databases)

Performance Indicators:

• Deliverable Schedule provided – hitting target dates 

Top 3 must-have hard skills 

• Experience with AWS technologies like Redshift, S3, AWS Glue, EMR, Kinesis, FireHose, Lambda, and IAM roles and permissions. 
• Experience in Craddle, SQL, EMR, Quick Site, and Python 
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines