Data Engineer

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking a Data Engineer to join our team at our client’s site in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Our cutting-edge Media client is looking for a Data Engineer to build and maintain optimized and highly available data pipelines.

Primary Duties and Key Responsibilities:

·        Design and develop highly scalable and reliable data engineering pipelines to process large volumes of data across many data sources

·        Identify, design and implement internal process improvements by automating manual processes and optimizing data delivery

·        Develop and promote best practices in data engineering

·        Develop real-time data processing applications using Google Cloud

·        Be part of the on-call rotation supporting our SLA’s

·        Participate in design and code reviews 

Required Qualifications:

·       Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in a related field

·        Five years of hands-on experience working in data warehousing or data engineering environment

·        Advanced SQL programming skills

·        Experience developing data solutions on GCP or AWS

·        Experience in ingestion of data from external APIs and data stores

·        Experience in design, build and operationalization of big data pipelines on Cloud Technologies.

·        Strong experience in authoring, scheduling, and monitoring of workflows (Apache Airflow related technologies)

·        Strong communication & interpersonal skills

  Preferred Qualifications:

·        Google Cloud Certified - Professional Data Engineer certification would be a plus

·        Knowledge of Git, Jinja2, Docker, Bitbucket, and Bamboo

·        Familiar with a NoSQL database such as MongoDB

·        Familiar with version control systems (Git and Bitbucket)

·        Familiar with Atlassian products Jira and Confluence

·        Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow or Google Composer

Blackstone Talent Group is a division of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and solutions firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone’s global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

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