Data Engineer III

Job Title – Data Engineer III
Location – Hybrid (Seattle, WA)
Duration – 6+ Months
 
Job description:
As a Data Engineer on the company's Marketing Insights team, your pivotal role will revolve around designing, building, and maintaining robust data pipelines and infrastructure to drive data-driven insights. Core responsibilities include architecting scalable and fault-tolerant pipelines to extract, transform, and load data from various sources into data warehouses or lakes. Leveraging cutting-edge tools and technologies, you'll implement ingestion, transformation, and integration processes, ensuring stringent data quality through validation, cleansing, and deduplication.

• You'll design and implement high-performance, scalable, and cost-efficient data storage solutions. Utilizing CI/CD principles, you'll automate infrastructure deployment and maintenance processes, ensuring a streamlined data ecosystem. Data modeling and engineering will be crucial, involving designing and implementing optimized data models, developing and maintaining ETL processes, and collaborating with analysts and functional managers to understand data needs and provide tailored data structures.
• Ensuring data governance, security, and compliance will be paramount. You'll implement robust policies and processes, enforce access controls, encryption, and auditing mechanisms, and collaborate cross-functionally to establish and maintain data governance standards.
• Continuous improvement and automation will be woven into your daily activities, continuously evaluating and optimizing processes, pipelines, and infrastructure, implementing automation and monitoring tools, and staying ahead of emerging data engineering technologies and trends. 

 

Responsibilities:

• 5+ years of data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence or business analytics experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, IT or equivalent
• Knowledge of distributed systems as it pertains to data storage and computing
• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
• Proficient in programming languages such as Python, Scala, or Java, and familiarity with SQL.
• Experience with data engineering tools and frameworks like Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Airflow, or similar.
• Knowledge of data warehousing concepts, dimensional modeling, data modeling techniques and building ETL pipelines.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams. 

Preferred:

• Master's degree in computer science, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, IT or equivalent
• Experience with business intelligence and visualization software (e.g., Quicksight.) to develop dashboards those are used by senior leadership.
• Experience working with technical and non-technical, internal customers to drive their own analytics and reporting (self-serve reporting) and support ad-hoc reporting when needed.
• Experience building world-class data environments with a high emphasis on data quality and data security

 

About Us: Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE® is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams. We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 140 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation. SPECTRAFORCE is built on a concept of “human connection,” defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA®, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people and clients can reach their highest potential. Learn more at: http://www.spectraforce.com
 
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
 
California Applicant Notice: SPECTRAFORCE is committed to complying with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) effective January 1, 2023; and all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. A Notice to California Job Applicants Regarding the Collection of Personal Information can be located on our website. Applicants with disabilities may access this notice in an alternative format by contacting NAHR@spectraforce.com.
 
LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer. 


At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $65.00/hr.