Senior Database Engineer

Summary

Join CloudHire, a remote employee provider, as a talented Database Engineer to build and maintain data architecture, work with clients and teams globally, and enjoy a flexible work-life balance.

Requirements

• 7+ years with AWS (preferred), GCP or Azure
• 10+ years of experience using standard methodologies to design, build, and support near real-time data pipelines and analytical solutions using Postgres, Redshift , BigQuery, Hadoop, Teradata, MS SQL Server, Talend, Informatica, Powerbi and/or SSIS
• 10+ years of experience using object-oriented languages (.Net, Java, Python) to deliver data for near real-time, streaming analytics
• 10+ years of experience working with partners documenting business requirements and translating those requirements into relational, non-relational, and dimensional data models using Erwin
• 10+ years of experience working on agile teams delivering data solutions
• 10+ years of experience developing MDM solutions
• 8+ years of experience in delivering solutions on public cloud platforms (Google Cloud preferred)
• Experience writing automated unit, integration, and acceptance tests for data interfaces & data pipelines
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies, and identify the most appropriate use for them
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, communication, and negotiation

Responsibilities

• Integrate multiple databases together, Snowflake schema, Star schema, Network model, and others
• Work with multiple message buses, Kafka, IBM MQ to targets like Redshift , Postgres, MongoDB
• Discovering appropriate workloads and use the appropriate database to deliver the performance and functionality needed
• Adept at design and deploy for scale considering the types of requests the database must deliver on
• Database recovery with sequence and time constraint
• Collaborating directly with business and technology stakeholders to define future-state business capabilities & requirements and translating those into transitional and target state data architectures
• Partnering with platform architects to ensure implementations meet published platform principles, guidelines, and standards
• Analyzing the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining data services, interfaces, and real-time data pipelines via the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies and data engineering techniques
• Developing continuous integration and continuous deployment for data pipelines that include automated unit & integration testing
• Workflow management platforms like Airflow
• Mentoring, motivating, and supporting the team to achieve organizational objectives and goals
• Advocating for agile practices to increase delivery throughput
• Creating, maintaining, and ensuring consistency with published development standards