What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Engineer position at 4A CONSULTING LLC?
Job Type
W2 – Full Time
Location
Remote within the continental United States
Responsibilities:
Join the 4A team as a Data Engineer and help us deliver innovative and mission-essential solutions for our clients. In this role, you will collaborate and be a proactive contributor with partners and clients to understand their business challenges and how technology can help them achieve their goals. You will apply data engineering best practices to automate and tune data pipelines in large scale environments in support of our clients, across different domains.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Designing, developing, and testing infrastructure for ETL/ELT processes.
- Developing, testing, and maintaining data architectures that align with business requirements.
- Building analytical and visualization tools to support the data pipeline and operational monitoring.
- Recommending changes to improve data reliability, quality, and efficiency in data pipelines.
- Assembling and analyzing large datasets to answer business questions and research business issues
- Engaging with stakeholders to gather project requirements and understand business needs.
- Designing and delivering analytics for stakeholders.
- Following best practices to document, review, and obtain approval of designs with clients, engineering teams, and other stakeholders.
- Contributing to the documentation of data pipelines and infrastructure.
- Leading the end-to-end testing of the data pipeline and ensuring data integrity.
- Working closely with project stakeholders to ensure that the implemented solutions meet requirements and are completed on time and within budget.
- Learning new domains, analyzing large, complex datasets, and comprehending how the data impacts the client’s business.
- Working with the SDLC in use by the client (e.g., waterfall, agile, hybrid)
Required Qualifications:
- 3 years of experience in systems development or integration projects (Agile experience preferred)
- Strong experience in utilizing data pipeline tools for large, complex data architectures. 2 years of experience in Snowflake is required and experience using Fivetran is preferred.
- Expert knowledge of SQL and NO-SQL and experience in tuning SQL queries.
- Expert knowledge of Python
- Experience in data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).
- Strong experience in data modeling, including relational models and star schemas.
- Strong experience in the AWS environment and its services (e.g., Lambda, GLUE, Apache SPARK, EMR, Machine Learning, CI/CD, etc.)
- Creative problem-solver with strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical clients, partners, and stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Proficient in O365 (Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint).
- Working knowledge of Postman.
- Experience in JIRA.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with and ability to describe complex systems integration projects
Certifications Preferred:
- None
Education:
Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.
Salary negotiated commensurate with experience
Benefits available for W2 employees
- 401K
- Medical
- Vision
- Dental
- AD&D (Basic Term Life)
- Voluntary AD&D
- Floating Holidays
- Short Term Disability
- Long Term Disability
- FMLA
- EAP
- Tuition Reimbursement
4A Consulting, LLC is one of the fastest growing solutions delivery companies in Maryland, delivering on end-to-end Enterprise-wide information technology (IT) initiatives. 4A has extensive experience delivering superb IT consulting and support services to federal, state, and local agencies, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Social Security Administration, Food & Drug Administration, and the State of Maryland. We cultivate a well-trained, technically savvy workforce through the acquisition of talent with specialized skills in program and technical management, cloud-based systems development & deployment, SAFe/Agile processes, and advanced integration technologies.
4A Consulting, LLC is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
4A is a certified Small Business Administration (SBA) Women-owned Small Business (WOSB)/Economically Disadvantaged Women-owned Small Business (EDWOSB), Maryland Department of Transportation Minority and Disadvantaged Small Business Enterprise (MBE/DBE), Minority Business Enterprise (National Minority Supplier Development Council), and Howard County (MD) Minority Business Enterprise IT firm.
Your Right to Work – In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
