What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Engineer position at Northern Light?
Job Duties/Position Description
- Manage the flow of data from source to user, working in a fast paced and collaborative environment.
- Design and create services to collect data from wherever it is published and, in any format, and prepare data for text extraction and analysis.
- Design and create services to build, index, and serve big data collections to users in enterprise search systems.
- Develop, document, test and maintain data architectures.
- Identify ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality.
- Use large data sets to address business issues for customers.
- Deploy sophisticated analytics programs, machine learning and statistical methods.
- Prepare data for predictive and prescriptive modeling.
- Troubleshoot and solve document flow and accessibility issues and communicating findings to the Content Operations Team and Project Managers.
Northern Light has been providing knowledge management solutions for competitive intelligence and market research to global enterprises for more than 15 years. We have been around for a long time, but we never stand still. Northern Light is looking for an analytical, conceptual forward thinking technical expert that will take initiative, be personally creditable, and deliver results.
Minimum Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent practical experience including 3 years of experience with one or more general purpose programming languages, including Perl and Python.
Preferred Experience and Skills
- Experience in large scale data processing using traditional and distributed systems
- Experience designing and operating data models and data warehouses as well as experience in SQL and NoSQL database management systems
- Experience with a continuous integration build system
- Experience with Linux environments
- Experience with git and docker
- Effective project management, problem solving, analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Knowledge of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Understanding of secure coding standards
Benefits
- 401(k)
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Referral program
Northern Light Careers
Northern Light offers the chance to work with innovative knowledge management technology applied to enterprises' market research and competitive intelligence needs, global Customers, and the greatest team of people ever assembled. The pace is fast. The environment is smart and fun. And the culture is fanatical about customer service.
Working at Northern Light
Northern Light is based in the Charlestown Navy Yard right beside the USS Constitution and across the river from the TD Garden and Boston’s North End. In addition, we have a development office in Bridgetown, Barbados and individual contributors working from home in the U.S., Russia, and Ukraine.
COVID-19 considerations
Northern Light Boston based employees are currently all working remotely. It is preferred that this position work from our Boston (Charlestown Navy Yard) office post-pandemic but is negotiable.
Northern Light provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.