Cloud Data Engineer

Cloud Data Engineer

Department: Professional Services

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Portland, ME, USA

Description

Why Work Here?
At Arkatechture, we have a simple shared mission: to build a sustainable organization built upon three pillars:  Do something meaningful, With a great team, Earning what you deserve.
We started in 2012 with a passion for data, business, and getting things done. We are a team of data lovers and technical experts who use our skills to help businesses big and small harness, utilize, and optimize their data. As New England’s Data Resource, we are a small company constantly evolving to keep up with changing landscapes in the data world. 
We are proud of the community and culture that we’ve created at Arkatechture, and we have no intention of slowing down. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes: 

• A flexible work-from-home policy (work 100% remotely!)
• Open-concept offices in Portland, ME with an easy-going dress code, and fresh pots and pops all day (that’s coffee and popcorn!)
• Training & certificate reimbursement
• A competitive benefits package that includes medical, disability, life insurance and optional dental/vision
• 401K Retirement planning with company matching
• Generous paid time off and eleven paid holidays
• Employee recognition through milestone awards including annual PTO increases and a 4 day work-week at 3 years of service!

All employees share our core values: put the team first, practice humility, take pride in everything we do, stay curious, care for our community & environment, take work seriously; ourselves not so much.
The Position  As a Cloud Data Engineer you will drive and support various Data initiatives particularly in the Data Warehousing and BI world. We are looking for a self starter who is passionate about data and excited to work on new and emerging technologies. We are looking for someone who can understand the full end-to-end scope of data curation, ingestion and integration, and execute with a team. Must have experience working on BI and Data warehousing Projects. Should be able to work efficiently with the Business and Technology teams collaborating with Project/Program Managers.
How to Apply Please send a cover letter and resume with your application. You must submit both documents to be considered for the position. Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Arkatechture we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Key Responsibilities

• Experience designing and building data pipelines using AWS services
• Experience with developing bidirectional data exchange systems
• SQL/Python development experience especially for serverless computing and event-based triggers
• Developing and Testing of code
• Working with Senior Data engineers on the team for a full end-to-end delivery of projects/solutions
• Communicate with both technical and non-technical collaborators
• Follow Engineering best practices
• Status reporting to Team lead on a regular cadence
• Estimation and working with Project manager on task allocation
• Additional responsibilities as assigned

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a similar individual contributor role
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or comparable work experience
• Excellent SQL skills and understands implementation of conformed data models
• Experience working on Snowflake along with 2 additional databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, Aurora, PostgreSQL, Redshift, MySQL etc
• Experience with developing in Python; 
• Experience working on Data Management projects for Data Lakes/Data Warehousing
• Experience working with APIs, specifically REST APIs, SDKs and CLI tools as part of ETL/ELT provisioning
• Experience with Linux and Windows scripting and utilities
• Experience working with multiple file formats such as JSON, XML, CSV, Flat, etc
• Experience extracting data from databases using ODBC/JDBC
• Experience with one or more ETL/ELT tools such as Fivetran, Mulesoft, Talend, etc.
• Strong understanding of Microservices architecture
• A strong understanding of Agile software development life cycle and methodology

Preferred Experience

• Building SQL models using dbt
• One or more of the following certifications:
  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional
  • AWS Developer Associate/Professional
  • Snowflake SnowPro Core/Advanced
• Domain expertise in one or more of the following verticals: Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, Telco, Digital Marketing, Supply Chain, or Transportation