Senior Data Engineer

Title: Senior Data Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Position: 2 Month (Contract)

Summary

Provide business insights, while leveraging internal tools and systems, databases and industry data

Roles & Responsibilities

Ability to document requirements, data lineage, subject matter in both business and technical terminology.

Guide and learn from other team members.

Demonstrated ability to transform business requirements to code, specific analytical reports and tools

This role will involve coding, analytical modeling, root cause analysis, investigation, debugging, testing and collaboration with the business partners, product managers other engineering team.

Minimum Qualifications

Very Strong engineering skills. Should have an analytical approach and have good programming skills.

Minimum of 5+ years’ experience. Experience in retail business will be a plus.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills for varied audiences on engineering subject matter

Must Have

Strong analytical background

Self-starter

Must be able to reach out to others and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Strong background in transforming big data into business insights

Technical Requirements

Knowledge/experience on Teradata Physical Design and Implementation, Teradata SQL Performance Optimization

Experience with Teradata Tools and Utilities (FastLoad, MultiLoad, BTEQ, FastExport)

Advanced SQL (preferably Teradata)

Experience working with large data sets, experience working with distributed computing (MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Apache Spark, etc.).

Strong Hadoop scripting skills to process petabytes of data

Experience in Unix/Linux shell scripting or similar programming/scripting knowledge

Experience in ETL/ processes

Real time data ingestion (Kafka)

BS degree in specific technical fields like computer science, math, statistics preferred

Education

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