Position: Senior Data Engineer
Company: Ciklum
Category: Data Science
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Project description:

Being part of the Data Warehouse Team, means you will be using cutting edge technology to design and develop our data platform.

You will be involved with Data Modelling, OLAP Cube Development and maintaining and evolving our existing data warehouse. Part of Data, means you will work hand in hand with our BI and Big Data Teams to support the data requirements of the different departments and brands within the Group.

Technology Stack: On-prem Microsoft data platform (MS SQL Server with Services, .NET)

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the building, deployment, and maintenance of mission critical analytics solutions that process data quickly at scales
Contributes design, code, configurations, and documentation for components that manage data ingestion, real time streaming, batch processing, data extraction, transformation, and loading across multiple data storages and data warehouses
Owns one or more key components of the infrastructure and works to continually improve and maintain it, identifying gaps and improving the platform’s quality, robustness, maintainability, speed, and guaranteed uptime
Contributes in creating data visualizations by building new reports and dashboards and refactoring old ones, and by writing complicated performance-tuned analytical SQL queries
Cross-trains other team members on technologies being developed, while also continuously learning new technologies from other team members
Interacts with engineering teams and ensures that solutions meet customer requirements in terms of functionality, performance, availability, scalability, and reliability
Performs development, QA, and dev-ops roles as needed to ensure total end to end responsibility of solutions
Manage incidents and perform on-call duties by agreement
Ensure business continuity by taking part in creating technical documentation as well as end-user documentation
Contribute in CoE activities and community building, participate in conferences, provide excellence in exercise and best practices

Requirements:

3+ years of experience coding in T-SQL and any of the .NET-based general programming language, with solid CS fundamentals including data structure and algorithm design
2+ years contributing to production deployments of large backend data processing and analysis systems
1+ years of hands-on implementation experience working with a combination of the SQL and NoSQL data warehouses
1+ years of experience in cloud data platforms (AWS preferable)
Strong knowledge of MS SQL Server and Services platform, including designing, performance tuning and maintaining
Knowledge of SQL and MPP databases (e.g. Snowflake, Vertica, Netezza, Greenplum, Aster Data)
Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software
Knowledge of Data Warehousing, design, implementation and optimization
Knowledge of Data Quality testing, automation and results visualization
Knowledge of BI reports and dashboards design and implementation
Knowledge of development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Experience participating in an Agile software development team, e.g. SCRUM
Experience designing, documenting, and defending designs for key components in large distributed computing systems
A consistent track record of delivering exceptionally high quality software on large, complex, cross-functional projects
Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and independently
Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Engineering from a top CS program required. Masters preferred
Desirable
Experience in Python or JVM-based languages would be a plus
Experience of team leading would be a plus
Understanding of cloud infrastructure design and implementation
Experience in data science and machine learning
Experience in backend development and deployment
Experience in CI/CD configuration
Good knowledge of data analysis in enterprises

Personal skills:

Ability to work independently without supervision
Curious mind and willingness to work with client in consultative manner to find areas to improve
Upper-Intermediate English
Good analytical skills
Good team player, motivated to develop and solve complex tasks
Self-motivated, self-disciplined and result-oriented
Strong attention to details and accuracy

What's in it for you:

A Centre of Excellence is ultimately a community that allows you to improve yourself and have fun. Our centres of excellence (CoE) bring together all Ciklumers from across the organization to share best practices, support, advice, industry knowledge and to create a strong community
Close cooperation with client
Dynamic and challenging tasks
Ability to influence project technologies
Projects from scratch
Team of professionals: learn from colleagues and gain recognition of your skills
European management style
Continuous self-improvement