Lead Data Engineer in Atlanta, GA (Remote untll Covid)

Lead Data Engineer in Atlanta, GA (Remote untll Covid)

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Title:

Lead Data Engineer
Location: Atlanta, GA (Remote until Covid)
Duration: 6 months Contract

Job Overview:

• The Lead Data Engineer will develop, test and maintain architecture, including databases and processing systems, to support a robust analytical pipeline that facilitates priority analytics use cases.
• The Lead Data Engineer will ensure these data processing capabilities meet business requirements, use case and user needs while providing reliable, efficient and quality data.

Essential Functions:

Data Management & Preparation

• Adhere to processes to ensure data pulled from various sources meets quality standards, is curated and enhanced for analytical use and there is a "single source of truth"
• Work with counterparts from Tech to build frameworks that integrate data pipelines and machine learning models that facilitate use by data scientists for priority use cases;
• Enterprise Data and Analytics team focused on "last mile" transformations on select data required for use cases
• Maintain database structure and standard definitions for business users across Client Work with data architects to build the foundational extract / load / transform process and regularly review the architecture and recommend effectiveness improvements
• Collaborate with Technology to future-proof data & analytics software, tools and code to reduce risk and support pipeline owners
• Work with Legal and Privacy teams to adhere to data privacy and security standards
• Work with Data Architect to implement the data models, standards and quality rules
• Work with the Data Science team to understand data formatting and sourcing needs to enable them to build out use cases as efficiently as possible

Culture:

• Community builder to foster data and analytics culture and to support data-driven thinking and discussions across priority analytics use case
• Embody data-driven culture at Client
• Bolster awareness, knowledge and conviction around datadriven practices and behaviors, increasing digital IQ of Business Units
• Proactively raise data issues and take action to remediate
• Support business users in identifying the correct data sets and providing easy to use tools to pull data

Key Performance Indicators:

• Quantity, type, and quality of databases and pipelines, in partnership with Technology
• Compliance with relevant laws and regulations, in partnership with Legal/Privacy
• Automation of data cleansing and harmonization processes in refined/trusted zones

Qualifications and Competencies:

• Bachelor's Degree from a 4-year college or university
• 5+ years of work experience, and at least 3 years of demonstrable experience in the role’s relevant technologies and field of expertise
• Ability to write production level code, assess databases and leverage Big Data technologies on Google Cloud Platform to support downstream analytics
• Familiarity with data architecture, modeling and security
• Experience in distributed computing and enterprise environment
• Ability to effectively share technical information, communicate technical issues and solutions to all levels of business
• Able to juggle multiple projects - can identify primary and secondary objectives, prioritize time and communicate timeline to team members
• Ability and desire to take product/project ownership
• Ability to think creatively, strategically and technically

Thanks,
Purushotham K | Talent Acquisition
HL Solutions LLC