Cloud Data Engineer

United States

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Nexient

Nexient is America’s largest 100% US-based software development consulting firm. We help clients outpace their competition through agile development, digital innovation and product-minded / project to product strategies.

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About your future team Nexient is on a mission: To rid the world of crappy software, one sprint at a time.  Every day, our 1000+ Agile developers, designers, and strategists empower each other to find passion in our work while we innovate the world. This culture of teamwork and curiosity is fueled by a product-minded approach to our work, crafting extraordinary custom software solutions and growing careers along the way. Our clients range from some of America’s favorite brands in retail, healthcare, financial services to fast-emerging disruptors – You might have read about us in the NY Times. We’re also recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor, HFS Hot Vendor, and America’s leading 100% U.S. Agile software services partner.  If you’re looking to change the trajectory of your career, make an impact on Day One, develop custom software on the best technology around – and maybe even make people’s lives easier -- then you belong here, with us. 
We are looking to hire Cloud Data Engineers with experience in building data pipeline using cloud technologies. The ideal candidate should have demonstrated experience building large-scale solutions in one, or more major cloud providers – AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Role and Responsibilities:

  • As part of a team, deliver production data pipelines, while working in collaboration with product and application teams
  • Collaborate as part of a cross-functional Agile team to create and enhance software that enables state-of-the-art, next generation big data and machine learning applications
  • Leverage cloud-based architectures and technologies to move, transform, and secure data, at scale

Required Skills and Experience:

  • 2-5 years of experience building, scaling, and optimizing enterprise-grade data pipeline
  • 2+ years of experience developing and deploying solutions in a public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Mastery of data wrangling in rational databases using SQL
  • Knowledge of object-oriented programming design best practices
  • Experience using source control (git)
  • Experience promoting data pipeline though development, testing, and production environments
  • Professional services experience, a plus
  • Cloud provider certification, a plus

Data engineering technologies:

  • Spark / Hadoop / Databricks
  • Python (JavaScript, Java or Scala, a plus)
  • Advanced SQL
  • Petabyte-scale, cloud-native data stores (Redshift, Athena, BigQuery, Synapse)
  • Cloud storage (S3, GCS, Azure Blob Storage)
  • Understanding of modern warehousing and data lake patterns
  • Experience in one or more of:
  • Airflow or other orchestration tools
  • Kafka, queue/messaging paradigms
  • Flink, Beam, and other Apache data movement software
  • NoSQL and document store technologies

Cloud (one or more of AWS, Azure, GCP):

  • Security/networking basics
  • Cloud native tools for batch and streaming data processing
  • Cloud native query engines
  • Serverless cloud functions, a plus
  • Visualization/reporting experience, a plus
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Why Nexient As a vital member of our Engineering Practice, you will be part of one of our 100+ small cross-functional teams working side by side with some of the most talented developers, UX designers, analysts, quality engineers, and product managers out there.  From Silicon Valley to Ann Arbor, Columbus, and beyond – a career with Nexient will offer you: Remote, hybrid, or onsite opportunities: Here, you decide the work arrangement that best suits your needs and preferences. Fulfilling and challenging projects: You will be exposed to different scenarios, multiple types of clients, and the most complex business and technology initiatives. Access to the most cutting-edge technologies: You’re always going to be advancing your skillset by learning and working with the newest and most relevant technologies available out there. A positive and passionate culture: Boring and divided aren’t in our vocabulary. In fact, it’s amazing to see how, despite our exponential growth, the Nexient culture and community stay as warm, diverse, and close as ever. Plenty of opportunities for you to explore and grow: We will empower you to dream as big as you want and support you to make your career what YOU want it to be. Creative runway: We take pride in encouraging our people to question the status quo.  Our benefits program includes: ·       Medical, dental, and vision coverage·       Generous PTO, plus holidays·       401(k) plan·       Life insurance and short-term & long-term disability·       Maternity leave·       Employee Assistance Program·       Flexible spending accounts·       Health savings account Nexient is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants without regarding to race, color, religion, citizenship, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter so that we may connect you with the appropriate team.

Tags: Agile Airflow ANN Architecture Athena AWS Azure Big Data BigQuery Databricks Data pipelines Engineering Flink GCP Git Hadoop JavaScript Kafka Machine Learning NoSQL OOP Pipelines Python Redshift Scala Security Spark SQL Streaming Testing UX

Perks/benefits: Career development Flex hours Flexible spending account Flex vacation Health care Insurance Medical leave

Regions: Remote/Anywhere North America
Country: United States
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