Senior Data Engineer

Job Title

Senior Data Engineer

New York, NY 10019

12+ months with possible extension

$80-85/hr

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data & Analytics team in New York. The role involves collaborating with business users, building and optimizing data storage and pipeline architecture, and delivering analytics projects across a variety of domains such as Digital Marketing, Campaign Management, Lead Generation, and Data Integration.

• Collaborating with technology and business users to define key business metrics and develop analytical dashboards to provide actionable insights to clients.
• Build and optimize data pipelines to consume data from various sources, transform and model it, and then distribute it to multiple consumers.
• Work with multiple data sources (including structured and unstructured) to create optimized data cubes for consumption by analytical dashboards and downstream systems.
• Identify, design, and implement improvements and automations for optimizing data processing, storage, and availability while maintaining scalability and performance.
• Build and support analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into data trends and other key business metrics.
• Develop and support analytics and machine learning projects.
• Support migration of the data platform from on-premises to cloud infrastructure.
• Work with various stakeholders, including technology and client teams, to assist with data and analytics related projects and issues.

• 7+ years of experience in a software development role, with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, information technology/systems, or a related field.
• Advanced working knowledge of data modeling, data warehousing concepts, database design principles, query authoring (SQL), and performance optimization.
• Successful history of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets.
• Hands‑on programming experience with Python, Java, or C#.
• Working knowledge of a visualization/re-reporting tool.
• Excellent problem‑solving and analytical skills with attention to detail.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Experience supporting and working with cross‑functional teams in a dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Experience with relational database systems such as Sybase, SQL Server, Postgres, etc.
• Experience with object‑oriented or functional scripting languages:
  Python (Num Py, Pandas), Java, C++, or Scala.
• Working knowledge of visualization tools like Tableau, Qlik View, Power BI, etc.
• Experience with cloud technologies such as Snowflake, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, etc. (plus).
• Experience with data‑science tools or workbenches such as Dataiku, Jupyter, Rapid Miner, etc. (plus).
• Experience with big data tools/technologies:
  Hadoop, Pig, Hive, Hue, PySpark, etc. (plus).
• Experience with ETL tools such as Azure Data Factory, Informatica, etc. (plus).
• Experience with machine learning/artificial intelligence techniques such as regression, classification, clustering, time series, text mining, large language model, etc. (plus).

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