Senior Data Engineer

  • Remote
  • Herndon, VA, us
  • 5mo ago
  • Full-time
  • On-site

Overview

Summary

At Karsun we defy assumptions and enable transformation as IT modernization experts. Our people and client-first focus, innovation and performance driven culture empowers and encourages our employees with the autonomy to innovate, and be accountable to take ownership and seek advancement opportunities for personal growth.

  • Are you a Data Engineer who enjoys addressing technical data challenges hands-on?
  • Do you like to solve problems differently than before and break known trade-offs in the domain by workingwith cutting edge cloud-native technologies, subject matter experts, and developers?
  • Do you love to grow in the data and analytics space and work with experts in this area?
  • Then we have a Data Engineer performance challenge for you. You will be responsible for developing data pipelines, automation of the data lifecycle, developing prototypes and proofs of concepts, and advancing a data program with modern approaches and technologies.

     

    Responsibilities

    What You'll Do:

    • Develop strategies for one-time, incremental and continuous data ingestion processes from a variety of sources, including EDMS systems, databases, web and file repositories.
    • Develop data pipelines as required using StreamSets/Pentaho Data Integration, AWS services or other products including COTS and open source to deliver to requirements
    • Provide development of scripting for the data platform including python and shell scripting
    • Provide exceptionally strong skills on version management and using repositories such as git for ETL, SQL and other scripting versioning and deployment management
    • Conduct maintenance of ETL code, data quality, reliability and performance including but not limited to process monitoring, data validation and data refresh
    • Provide support to data analysts, project managers and product owners with planned and ad hoc data requests, access and extracts of data content from a variety of database systems including PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase and Domino.
    • Continuously improve automation, processes and service reliability, availability and performance across the cloud data and application platform.

    Qualifications and Education

    Required Qualifications:

    • Requires a Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Math, or Science and a minimum of 15 years of relevant experience
    • 4+ years of experience in data pipelines design and development with tools and services such as Pentaho PDO, Python, AWS Glue, Informatica or equivalent ETL tools
    • Ability to create and orchestrate complex and efficient data pipelines across relational, NoSQL and otherdata sources including data APIs
    • 2 yrs of experience in Python
    • Experienced with python libraries for web scraping such as beautiful soup and scrapy
    • Excellent troubleshooting and performance optimization skills for ETL platform administration, integration and performance monitoring
    • Code maintenance, version control and documentation
    • Ability to successfully obtain and maintain a U.S. Suitability/Public Trust Background Clearance

    Compensation

    The proposed salary range for this role is $****** to $******* USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. Karsun considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.