Job Summary
- Role - Senior Azure Data Engineer
- Location - Houston, TX
- Contract Job - Need someone who is local to Houston and can come to the office from day 1.
- Need someone who can partly play the role of a Business Analyst.
Description:
The ideal candidate should be experienced in data engineering systems such as AWS, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Data lake, Hana, Hadoop, AWS, and Microsoft Azure. Experience with at least one statistical and data science programming languages (e.g. R or Python) is required. Familiarity with data visualization (e.g. ggplot, Shiny, Tableau) and deployment strategies (e.g. Azure Web Services, APIs, etc.) are required.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Work closely with business stakeholders to understand their needs, objectives, and challenges.
- Propose innovative and practical solutions to address business challenges.
- Provide comprehensive data engineering support across major projects
- Continue development and deployment of proprietary tools through appropriate platforms
- Provide data engineering support for other select projects across the Technology organization, and
- Provide data acquisition and data integration support for major ongoing and future projects.
- Expand proprietary analytics tools and deploy on modern platforms.
- Incorporate corporate best practices and solutions for data structuring, cleaning, visualization, etc.
- Provide initial data cleaning and statistical analysis.
- Develop and maintain data storage solutions by applying data management fundamentals and knowledge of distributed systems.
- Provide trouble-shooting assistance and recommendations to address functional challenges that arise during use of the platforms mentioned above.
- Identify and capture opportunities to train system users on advanced features of the platforms mentioned above.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a computer related field, Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Statistics, the physical sciences
- Experience working with Microsoft Azure or AWS
- 7 or more years relevant work experience in software development and data management solutions
- Able to understand the diverse business requirements and be able to translate those requirements into applicable solutions
- Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, etc.
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as R or Python
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices for the full software development cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, built processes, testing, and operations
- Knowledge of data management fundamentals and data storage principles
- Knowledge of distributed systems as it pertains to data storage and computing.
Preferred:
- 12 or more years relevant work experience in software development
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent teamwork skills
- Ability to present and explain technical information to diverse audiences
- Ability to write clear proposals and technical documents
Job Type: Contract
Pay: From $70.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Experience level:
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Experience:
- AWS: 5 years (Required)
- Business analysis: 5 years (Required)
- Power BI: 5 years (Required)
- Data warehouse: 5 years (Required)
Work Location: In person