What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Engineer position at ALTA IT Services?
Title : Data Engineer. No sponsorship available now or in the future, NO C2C ALTA is supporting a 6-month Contract-to-hire opportunity working 100% REMOTE. No sponsorship now or in the future or Visa transfer available ALTA IT Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of System One, a leading provider of specialized workforce solutions and integrated services. ALTA is an established leader in IT Staffing and Services, for both government and commercial enterprises across the United States, specializing in Program & Project Management, Application Development, Cybersecurity, Data & Advanced Analytics, and Agile Transformation Services. Our IT department is currently seeking an experienced data engineer to build data pipelines that provide peace of mind for people by equipping them to make data-informed business decisions. Be ready to : develop reliable, reusable, automated and streamlined ETL code analyze and organize raw data from multiple sources to produce requested or required data elements design table structures and ETL to build performant data solutions that are scalable in a fast growing data ecosystem create reconciliation procedures and data checks to ensure data quality build in automated audit, balancing and controls provide production support, including on-call rotation and technical assistance to end-user and IT staff lead user requirements gathering and documentation designs proactively conduct data investigations and assist business partners with complex data analysis and ad-hoc queries lead application and technical architecture analysis, design and implementation, and ensure BI product fulfills requirements lead efforts with data management and database specialists to troubleshoot and report issues design new reporting applications to ensure reporting requests can be supported by the underlying data source adhere to all metadata management and data quality standards by leading quality management reviews understand configuration dependencies and interrelationships between data warehouse and business intelligence tools and designs; troubleshoot in the area with this knowledge proactively identify, build and maintain relationships with business process owners and colleagues identify changes in scope or work effort that could result in budgetary overrun or missing of delivery date, design and implement contingency demonstrate expert problem solving capabilities Be equipped with : proven experience in designing and implementing ETL processes (preferred tools : IBM's DataStage, SQL, SAS, Python) proven experience distilling business requirements into data warehouse design artifacts such as a Facts Qualifier Matrix (FQM), source to target maps and star / snowflake schema data models preferred five or more years experience with SQL, Data Modeling and Dimensional Modeling understanding of enterprise technical landscape (property and casualty insurance background a plus) knowledge of developing BI dashboards (preferred tools : IBM's Cognos, Microsoft's Power BI); creating data quality scorecards and data lineage experience with agile teams mentor development team members in design and development of BI solutions strong team working skills, an analytical nature, self-motivated and excellent written and oral communication skills ability to comprehend complex technical and logical concepts and adapt quickly to changes ability to maintain own workflow and meet deadlines while managing parallel project deliverables with minimal direction ability to create effective visual models to enable collective understanding of processes, data flow, user interaction and others as needed prior reporting application support experience track record of successfully architecting small, medium and enterprise-scale solutions preferred three or more years of business requirements experience
