Newsela is hiring a
Data Engineering Services

Summary

Newsela is seeking a Contractor with 2+ years of data engineering experience to develop a thorough understanding of various data sources, data pipelines, and enterprise data warehouse models. The role involves assessing existing tools and processes, helping with migrations, connecting new data sources, building new data warehouse models, maintaining a reliable data and analytics platform, and applying best practices for data quality checks, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in data engineering
• Proficient in Python programming and hands-on experience building ETL/ELT pipelines
• Experience using orchestration tools like Prefect, Airflow etc
• Working experience with a column store Analytical Datastores like Snowflake/Redshift/Bigquery etc
• Hands-on experience in data modeling; including strong knowledge of SQL
• Experience with source control systems like GitHub

Responsibilities

• Develop a thorough understanding of the various data sources, data pipelines, and enterprise data warehouse models
• Assess the existing tools and processes and help with critical migrations like prefect 1 to prefect 2 as well as incorporating tools like Dbt to analytics engineering cycle
• Connect new data sources as needed and build new data warehouse models
• Maintain a reliable data and analytics platform by bringing in best practices and tools for data quality checks, monitoring, and troubleshooting production issues

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Dbt is a plus
• Experience with BI tools like Tableau is a plus
• Experience with a public cloud preferably AWS is a plus