Data Engineer

New York, NY
Contracted
Mid Level
FocusKPI is looking for a Data Engineer to join our client's growing team and spearhead analyses, providing meaningful insights into their users and product.

Work Location: 100% remote and ideally able to work New York EST hours
Duration: 5 months/ 40 hrs per week
Pay Range: $45 - $55/hr

Responsibilities: 
  • The initial project will be moving DBT models that currently run in Spark SQL to run in Redshift
  • Need to have the business intuition to roughly understand the business logic in the existing data model and make sure the new one meets their needs
  • Team would also like you to do some CI/CD work around their DBT job, where Python, GitHub Actions, and Airflow would be helpful
  • Support new product launches, A/B testing, ramp-up recommendations, and root cause investigation
  • Be constantly curious and continue to pursue in-depth explorations of the datasets
  • Leverage new techniques to investigate their data and incorporate external information to boost our knowledge of this market
  • Communicate complicated data findings in a clear and concise manner to our multi-disciplined teams
  • Collaborate with stakeholders, including product, marketing, finance, etc., on initiatives that improve our company-level KPIs and match our business priorities
  • Ad-hoc analysis to address urgent high-impact analysis for business stakeholders
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree in the Computer field, which requires logical, creative thinking, STEM majors, MS degree preferred
  • 5+ years of industry experience is required
  • Expertise in SQL (Need to have strong skills)
  • Strong experience in Spark/PySpark, Python, Scala, Airflow, and AWS
  • Experience with DBT, Redshift
  • Experience with data models
  • Experience with CI/CD
  • Experience with Python, GitHub, and Airflow is a huge plus to have
  • Experience collaborating with and understanding the needs of stakeholders from a variety of business functions, including product, marketing, finance, and so on
  • Experience in handling large-scale data with efficiency
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Experience in Financial Services or FinTech preferred
 

Thank you!

FocusKPI Hiring Team

Founded in 2010, FocusKPI, Inc. (FocusKPI) is a data science and technology firm specializing in predictive analytics practice and methodologies. FocusKPI is a US company headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, with an East Coast office in Boston, Massachusetts.

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