Specialty Development Senior

Job Description:

• This role is for experienced Data Engineer that will be responsible for designing and building the foundational components required for our customer.
• This includes bringing disparate sources into our Data Factory and creating data products that will be used by the analytics and reporting teams.
• Data engineers will work in small, cross-functional teams.
• They will collaborate directly and continuously with product managers, designers, and product owners to release early and often.
• Work with data scientists and software engineers to support data acquisition activities, data solution ideation, and implementation
• Work with technical and business leads to transfer global business requirements into sound solutions and implementation
• Share support responsibilities for implemented components

 

Skills Required:

• Minimum of 8+ years’ experience working in Data Engineering, primarily on GCP skill sets.
• Hands on experience developing Data engineering pipelines using Workflows
• Experience in troubleshooting performance issues
• Minimum of 3+ years of experience working in Data engineering, Big data platform and technologies including Hadoop, Hive, Sqoop, Spark, Kafka, Big Query, Terraform, Tekton, Astro, Astonomer, Data Flow, Data Proc, Data Fusion, etc.,
• Design data pipelines and data robots, take a vision and bring it to life
• Master data engineer; teaches others; works closely with IT architects
• Experience programming in Java and Python is a plus
• Experience using Alteryx and data visualization tools especially Qlikview is a plus
• Experience working in Agile/XP
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills

 

Skills Preferred:

• Data Manipulation - GCP (Big Query, Cloud Storage, Data Proc, etc.), Terraform, Airflow

 

Experience Required:

• REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT: Identify, document, communicate and design per requirements.
• DESIGN: Work with Data Product Owners to design data stores.
• IMPLEMENT DATA STORES: Implement data stores on GCP, using DBT for transformations, BigQuery for data store and Astronomer for overall orchestration.
• TEST: Participate in testing and adopt test driven development.
• TUNE: Tune data stores (indexes, SQL queries) to improve performance.
• L2 SUPPORT: Assist with customer inquiries and incidents/problems.
• COLLABORATE: Work within/across teams.

Experience Preferred:

• GCP Skill set is mandatory. (Big Query, Python, SQL Server, Terraform, Tekton, Astro, Astronomer, DBT),

 

Education Required:

• BE/BTech in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

 

Additional Info:

At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra.  We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.

We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years!

FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused.

We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

 

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

 

Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.

FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022!

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