Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

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Apex has an opportunity for a Data Engineer in the Houston area. This is a 12 contract, potential to extend position.

Position: Data Engineer
Apex Job ID: 1154178
Location: Houston, TX - Remote
Rate: Negotiable based on experience
Type: Contract

Senior Data Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Part of a cross-disciplinary team, working closely with other data engineers, software engineers, data scientists, data managers and business partners.
• Architects, designs, implements and maintains reliable and scalable data infrastructure.
• Writes, deploys and maintains software to build, integrate, manage, maintain, and quality assure data.
• Adheres to and advocates for software engineering best practices (e.g. technical design, technical design review, unit testing, monitoring & alerting, checking in code, code review, documentation),
• Responsible for deploying secure and well-tested software that meets privacy and compliance requirements; develops, maintains and improves CI / CD pipeline,
• Responsible for service reliability and following site-reliability engineering best practices: on-call rotations for services they maintain, responsible for defining and maintaining SLAs.
• Design, build, deploy and maintain infrastructure as code. Containerizes server deployments.
• Actively contributes to improve developer velocity.
• Mentors others.

Requirements:

• Deep and hands-on experience (typically 5+ years) designing, planning, productionizing, maintaining and documenting reliable and scalable data infrastructure and data products in complex environments
• Development experience in one or more object-oriented programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, Java, C)
• Advanced SQL knowledge
• Experience designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems
• Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in technologies across all data lifecycle stages
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to lead large organizations through influence
• Continuous learning and improvement mindset

Other:

• BS degree in computer science
• No prior experience in the energy industry required

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