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ID #44025294
State Texas
City Houston
Job type Contract
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source Vaco Technology
Showed 2022-07-12
Date 2022-07-11
Deadline 2022-09-09
Category Et cetera
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Sr Data Engineer

Texas, Houston, 77002 Houston USA

Vacancy expired!

The Sr. Data Engineer's role is to design, develop, test, deploy and maintain software programs and applications. This includes automated unit testing, CI/CD, code reviews, and version control systems (GIT). The Sr. Data Engineer will also oversee system startups in a timely and accurate fashion and provide support to other departments where required.

Day to Day

  • Gain an understanding of the needs of internal Subject Matter Experts and collaborate with team members to generate autonomous reporting or dashboards
  • Collaborate with analysts and designers in the development and initiation of new software programs and applications
  • Oversee the quality assurance of program logic, data processing, and error resolution within a complicated and fast-moving system
  • Influence the development of a complex system by presenting an awareness of programming and design alternative
  • Direct research on emerging application development software products, languages, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts
  • Integrate data sources with partner companies or 3rd party data vendors to help our business better understand its operations
  • Interact regularly with managers, clients, vendors, and agencies to field queries and questions
  • Research, document, and implement program requirements and specifications
  • Consistently write, translate, and code software programs and applications according to specifications
  • Run and monitor performance tests on new and existing software for the purposes of correcting mistakes, isolating areas for improvement, and general debugging
  • Administer diagnostic analysis of test results and deliver solutions to critical areas
  • Cultivate and disseminate knowledge of application development best practices
  • Determine, develop, and maintain user manuals and guidelines
  • Liaise with company's software and hardware suppliers for prompt rectification of any problems or emergencies
  • Liaise with network administrators, systems analysts, programmers, and other software engineers to resolve any defects in products or company systems
Bonus Background

  • Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial
  • Proven record of deploying applications on premise or over the web
  • Strong Data Lake and Data Warehousing experience
  • Experience with IIoT systems
  • Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Adept at conducting research into software-related issues and products
  • Knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws
  • Certifications in Microsoft development technologies (.Net, Azure Cloud certifications such as Azure Data Platform, Databricks, Azure DevOps)

Background/Experience

  • Four-year college diploma or university degree in software engineering or computer science, and/or 5+ years equivalent work experience
  • Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between
  • Strong fluency in one or more object-oriented programming languages such as Python or Java
  • Extensive ETL pipeline development experience with both streaming and batch processes
  • Fluency in Linux (preferably Ubuntu or Debian) and Windows operating systems
  • Databasing design and tuning experience in SQL (preferably PostgreSQL) and NoSQL
  • Experience in working alongside Data Science teams developing applications
  • Experience with Big Data technologies such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink
  • Competent and proficient understanding of cloud infrastructure with bonus points for Azure system specifically
  • Event-driven architecture and messaging frameworks (Pub/Sub, Kafka, and/or RabbitMQ)
  • Experience with Microservices and related technologies - Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot
  • Hands-on, professional experience integrating with both internal and external REST APIs
  • Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential

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