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Sr. Data Engineer
Direct Hire, on-site 3 days/week in Fort Worth, TX
***No 3rd parties or agencies please***
***client will not sponsor or visa transfer***
About the job
Our client is a Fintech software and services provider located in Fort Worth. This role is hybrid, on-site three days per week in Fort Worth. This role is on a small team of data engineers. All are generalists but each have a major area of expertise. This role will need to have an expertise in data pipelining and API ingestion. Looking for someone with strong DM/DW data pipeline development and automation in a cloud (AWS preferred) environment. Must have expertise in data pipelining, but also strong experience in data modeling to format the data going into the data warehouse…and some data analysis. Enough to work with stakeholders to create data strategy and know the right kind of data that is needed.
Our client is looking for a teammate who takes ownership in their work and accountability for their projects. This is a fast-moving shop where you will get a lot of experience in a shorter amount of time than other corporate environments, but due to the size of the team you will be equally accountable for the end work product. Your work product will be highly visible and recognized!
MUSTS:
- 5 years data engineering, data modeling and data warehousing.
- Expertise in ETL and data pipelining using a major ETL/Data tool. DBT is highly preferred.
- Strong experience in Python and a Python-based orchestration tool like Dagster, Airflow or Prefect.
- Strong cloud data engineering. AWS preferred.
PLUSES:
- Exposure to data pipeline automation using DevOps, CI/CD.
- Snowflake
- Docker/Kubernetes
- Spark, Dask, Kubeflow, Airflow