Senior Data Engineer - AWS

Data Engineer: Contractor

Kaizen Analytix LLC, an analytics services company seeking a qualified Data Engineer Contractor to support data science or data analytics projects. Responsibilities, capabilities for success, and job requirements are below. This role requires an estimated 40 hours/week commitment for approximately 16 weeks.

Responsibilities:

Candidate will be responsible for supporting a data science or data analytics project.

• Work with client IT to understand access and use of source-of-truth data systems and downstream data sources.
• Work with data scientist or visualization experts to determine data requirements such as structure, latency, availability.
• Work with IT Security to assess risk of using sensitive data and how these data can be used throughout the project life cycle.
• Develop an as-is and to-be state for data architecture.

Capabilities for Success:

In addition to key responsibilities, Candidate should demonstrate an ability to…

• Work with the project manager and the business stakeholders to define upstream requirements for data
• Contribute to estimating input and time required for data engineering development tasks

• Contribute to client demonstrations of solution or presentations on architecture
• Proactively raise risks and issues to internal project manager
• Work with data scientist or analysts to proactively assist in data concerns

Job Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree required
• Extensive Experience in Data Engineering – consuming, wrangling, validating, developing pipelines for data.
• Strong knowledge of databases, ETL concepts, SQL, and NoSQL sources.
• Experience in: Python (data packages such as Pandas, PySpark, SQL Alchemy, pydantic, etc.) and SQL.
• Position Type: 1099 Contractor