Ajah is hiring a
Data Engineer

Summary

The job is for a part-time Data Engineer with GivingTuesday, a global generosity movement organization. The role involves building data pipelines, collaborating with the team to create useful data models, delivering quality Python code, developing queries, implementing interactive dashboard components, and applying industry best practices. The position is remote and has a 6-month term employment contract.

Requirements

• Experience designing, building, testing, and maintaining data pipelines
• Strong programming skills (we mostly work in Python) and experience with data querying languages (we do a lot in SQL)
• Experience using data platform tools and environments (e.g. Databricks or similar)
• Familiarity or experience with BI/dashboarding/data viz tools (e.g. PowerBI, Tableau)
• Experience with software development best practices (e.g. version control, writing documentation)

Responsibilities

• Building data pipelines to automate recurrent operations on core datasets
• Collaborating with our team of data engineers, data scientists and data analysts to create useful data models that are well-defined and documented
• Delivering quality Python code to work with datasets that includes tests and passes code review processes
• Developing well-structured and efficient queries to support the construction of dashboards and reports
• Implementing interactive dashboard components with BI tools and visualization libraries
• Applying industry best practices to improve our code base, release and deployment practices, tools, and other development processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with or interest in building custom charts using visualization libraries (e.g. d3.js, plotly, matplotlib)
• Experience with Javascript/Node.js

Benefits

• Generous vacation time policy
• Supplemental Health and Dental benefits (we will work to find a local equivalent for non-Canadian applicants)