Illumination Works LLC is a technology partner specializing in data solutions. They are seeking a Data Engineer/Architect to collaborate with data scientists, design robust databases, and ensure high performance for production applications.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with data scientists to ingest, integrate, and prepare database structures needed to advanced analytics and visualization
- Construct robust and complex databases design for structured and unstructured
- Ensure high performance and efficiency for production applications
- Must be motivated to collaborate with data science and software developer teammates to understand and then implement data requirements
- Strong experience with complex data modeling, schema design, and database architecture
- Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python
- Expertise building data ingestion and transformation pipelines
- Experience integrating multiple data source types
- Proficiency with PostgreSQL or comparable relational database systems
- Expertise optimizing code / query performance and data workflows
- Familiarity with structured and unstructured data
- Experience writing multithreaded or multiprocessing applications
- Understanding of cloud architecture and data platform best practices (AWS preferred)
- Experience working in collaborative development environments using Git
- Understanding of containerization (Docker)
- Knowledge of CI/CD for data pipelines
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Requirements:
- Strong experience with complex data modeling, schema design, and database architecture
- Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python
- Expertise building data ingestion and transformation pipelines
- Experience integrating multiple data source types
- Proficiency with PostgreSQL or comparable relational database systems
- Expertise optimizing code/query performance and data workflows
- Familiarity with structured and unstructured data
- Experience writing multithreaded or multiprocessing applications
- Understanding of cloud architecture and data platform best practices (AWS preferred)
- Experience working in collaborative development environments using Git
- Understanding of containerization (Docker)
- Knowledge of CI/CD for data pipelines
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Minimum Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or comparable academic discipline
- Minimum Experience Requirements: Seven (7) years of experience required
- Must have or be willing to obtain Secret Clearance (this requires US Citizenship)
- Acceptable candidates must successfully pass a drug test and background screen