Data Engineer

Location: Bellevue and Everett,Washington,United States

TITLE:             Data Engineer

LOCATION:    Bellevue, WA

TerraPower is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, TerraPower originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world. They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment.

TerraPower’s mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company’s activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications – all for significant human health benefits.

TerraPower is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes.  TerraPower is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, as a federal contractor, TerraPower has instituted an Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) in an effort to proactively recruit, hire, and promote women, minorities, disabled persons and veterans.

Data Engineer

TerraPower is looking for a motivated, detail-oriented, and collaborative Data Engineer to support enterprise data management, business reporting, and AI data modeling to join our growing IT team. A successful candidate is someone who demonstrates integrity, situational awareness and adaptability working in a diverse team with dynamic priorities.

As a Data Engineer, you will play an important role in defining and implementing data pipelines. Your primary responsibilities will include understanding business needs, identifying the data sources to meet those needs, applying best practices in data management, and maintaining accurate documentation.

Key Responsibilities  

·       Identify and document the business relevance and ownership of data sources

·       Build tools to give us visibility into our data to support business processes

·       Support the development, delivery and training of BI dashboards and reporting tools to meet compliance objectives and enhance the organization’s program and project management teams

·       Work directly with business partners to discuss reporting needs, build requirements, identify sources of data, define security needs and agree on definition of complete

Qualifications

·       5+ years of experience in data engineering, with demonstrated capability in distributed computing technologies, ETL, query performance optimization, and modern SDLC methods

·       SQL proficiency and mastery of at least one general-purpose programming language

·       Passion for building and improving data pipelines that are performant, easy to maintain, and consistently deliver high-quality data products

·       Proficiency in various data modeling techniques, such as Entity Relational (ER), Hierarchical, Dimensional or NoSQL modeling.

·       Experience working in a cloud infrastructure environment and using various data warehouse and big data systems

·       3+ years experience with orchestration tools such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, AWS Step function, Airflow, Control-m, etc. (preference Azure Data Factory/Synapse)

·       Some exposure/experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, QuickSight, QlickView, IBM Cognos analytics or Business Object