Remote Data Engineer III

Summary

Join Fearless Digital as a Data Engineer and contribute to building software with a soul. This role involves architecting, building, and maintaining scalable tooling and infrastructure for managing data in a system.

Requirements

• Must have current or prior local, state, or federal government experience
• A minimum of 6-7 years of demonstrated directly related working experience
• Demonstrated high proficiency working with Python
• Demonstrated experience working with large digital delivery projects
• Demonstrated experience working with large APIs
• Demonstrated experience and high proficiency with Azure, AWS (Redshift is highly desired)
• Demonstrated experience and expertise with Cloudwatch
• Ability to obtain required security clearance for this project: Public Trust
• Current or prior working experience in government contracting space
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Experience with Machine Learning and Deep Learning Tools and Software
• Experience in statistics, data processing, or data annotation
• Understanding of quality assurance with respect to data and models
• Demonstrated proficiency with programming languages including Python, R, SAS, JavaScript, and/or Java
• Experience working with at least one data analysis tool like Hadoop, Apache Spark, or cloud-provider equivalents
• Effective written and oral communication skills to communicate insights extracted from the data
• Ability to understand and respond to customer needs and collaborate as part of a cross-functional team
• Ability to operate and manage work, strategically reason, and build relationships and influence others

Responsibilities

• Coach teams on how to properly make decisions with data
• Be an advocate for best practices and continued learning
• Takes initiative for their own growth through personal leadership
• Designs and implements internal processes for automating data delivery and optimization
• Builds and maintains secure tooling and infrastructure for scalable automated data pipelines and machine learning models that align with business needs
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements
• Collaborates with Data Scientists and Business Analysts to improve data models that solve problems and support data-driven decision making
• Supports regular ad-hoc data and analysis needs to better understand customer behaviors
• Implements processes and systems to monitor data quality and volume, ensuring data is accurate and available
• Performs analysis required to troubleshoot data related issues and assist in the resolution of data issues
• Evaluates data ingestion, data analysis and machine learning tools for efficacy
• Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs
• Works closely with all business units and engineering teams to develop strategy for long term data platform architecture
• Evaluates existing data systems to improve data quality and governance

Preferred Qualifications

• A minimum of 2 years working directly/closely with Databricks, Postgres SQL, Power BI
• Demonstrated proficiency working with Data Bricks

Benefits

• Life-friendly schedules
• Family-friendly workplace
• We cover 100% of your premium for our medical HSA plan + the deductible portion of HSA contributions, 80% of your premium for our HMO or PPO plans, and offer competitive dependent coverage
• We cover 100% of dental and vision premiums for you and your dependents and offer medical and dependent care FSA options
• Life insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, and legal planning and support insurance
• Tech, education / training, and wellness allowances
• Safe Harbor 401(k) plan with employer contributions (current match = 4%) and immediate vesting
• Referral bonus: Bring your friends! If someone you refer is hired, you’ll get a bonus of $6–12k!
• Total Pet Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Up 12 weeks of FMLA paid at 100%
• PTO is provided to team members as a lump sum allowance, not an accrual. PTO is prorated based on your start date (see table below) on a quarterly basis (with tenure-based increases), 8.75 days of sick leave, 11 federal holidays, their birthday (8 hours), up to 15 days for jury duty, and up to 3 days (24 hours) of bereavement leave per eligible instance