Apply on Employer Site

Western Governors University · 9 hours ago

Associate Data Engineer

USA

Full-time

Hybrid

Entry Level

2+ years exp

Western Governors University is dedicated to expanding access to higher education through innovative online degree programs. They are seeking an Associate Data Engineer to build robust ETL/ELT pipelines that facilitate data availability for internal business units, ensuring timely delivery and data quality through agile methodologies.

Higher Education

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Develops and builds ETL/ELT data pipelines for use in data analysis

Creates and maintains optimal data pipeline architecture

Keeps data separated and secure across multiple cloud environments

Assembles large, complex data sets that meet functional and non-functional business requirements

Delivers ad-hoc and analytical reports to internal users and teams

Monitors and maintains ETL/ELT jobs and troubleshoots load issues

Manages change requests/ticket queues for analytical reports and ETL/ELT jobs

Performs data/technology discovery from new sources and third-party applications for data ingestion

Creates complex reports and dashboards in Cognos and Tableau

Ingests and transforms structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from sources including relational databases, NoSQL, external APIs, JSON, XML, delimited files, and more

Works and delivers in agile methodology for new development projects. Delivers efficient and effective solutions on time

Analyzes and understands data sources and designs a data model for data capture and ETL/ELT

Identifies bugs, applies fixes, and checks data quality via process/pipeline audits

Uses industry best practices for code development, testing, implementation, and documentation

Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Qualification

ETL/ELT pipelinesSQL databasesNoSQL databasesPythonAgile methodologyData quality auditingBig data toolsCognosTableauCommunication skillsTeam collaborationTechnical documentation

Required

2 + years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Integration, Big Data, Business Intelligence, or Software Engineering

Bachelor's degree in management information systems, Computer Science, or a related field

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, along with technical documentation skills

Ability to work with team members, as well as cross-team for product delivery

Ability to work in an agile environment with timely delivery of ETL/ELT pipelines and reports

Knowledge and experience using tools like Jira, Confluence, and GitHub

Ability to develop processes for the audit of data integrity

Knowledge and experience with validation and testing development to analyze and debug issues

Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases

Knowledge and experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages, like Python, Java, and Scala

Knowledge and experience with big data tools, like Databricks, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc

Exposure to analytical reporting tools, preferably Power BI and Tableau