Lead Data Engineer (AWS, Azure, GCP)

CapTech is an award-winning consulting firm that collaborates with clients to achieve what’s possible through the power of technology. The Lead Data Engineer will enable clients to build and maintain advanced data systems, design and implement data pipelines, and provide technical leadership to ensure solutions align with customer needs.

Responsibilities:

• Be trusted advisor to customers with best practices, methodologies, and technologies to implement data engineering solutions
• Design, implement, and maintain modern data pipelines to deliver optimal solutions utilizing appropriate cloud technologies
• Partner with product owners and business SMEs to analyze customer requirements and provide a supportable and sustainable engineered solution
• Provide technical leadership and collaborate within and across teams to ensure that the overall technical solution is aligned with the customer needs
• Stay current with the latest cloud technologies, patterns, and methodologies; share knowledge by clearly articulating results and ideas to key stakeholders

Requirements:

• Experience building/operating highly available distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing large data sets
• 5+ years of experience delivering data engineering solutions on cloud platform
• 5+ years of experience implementing modern designs using at least one cloud-based solution/platform (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Advanced level proficiency with at least one ETL / Data Orchestration technology (Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Informatica, Alteryx, Ab Initio, Pentaho, Talend, Matillion)
• Experience cloud-based data warehousing and data lake solutions like Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks
• 5+ years of experience with SQL or NoSQL database (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL server, Oracle, Aurora, Presto, BigQuery)
• Expertise with SQL, database design/structure and data structure (star, snowflake schemas, de/normalized designs)
• 5+ years of experience with at least one programming language (Python, Java, R, C / C# / C++, Shell)
• Familiarity with one or more DevOps tools (git, Jenkins, CI/CD, Jira)
• Fundamental understanding of big data, open source, and data streaming concepts
• Ability to think strategically and provide recommendations utilizing traditional and modern architectural components based on business needs
• Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring other engineers in data engineering space
• Cloud certification on any platform a plus