Job Description
Data Engineer
Contract
San Diego, CA (Onsite)
This role will focus on ETL development, database optimization, and performance monitoring, ensuring efficient data management.
This position pays around $50/hr
Responsibilities:
Data Pipeline Development & Management
- Build and maintain ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines that move data from various sources (databases, APIs, cloud storage) into centralized data warehouses or lakes.
- Ensure pipelines are scalable, efficient, and fault-tolerant to handle large datasets.
Database & Data Warehouse Management
- Design and optimize relational databases (SQL) to store structured and unstructured data.
- Manage cloud-based storage solutions such as Snowflake
Performance Optimization & Monitoring
- Optimize query performance using indexing, caching, and partitioning strategies.
- Monitor data pipelines
Work closely with finance team, analysts, and business teams to understand data needs and provide solutions.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering or data science, with a focus on financial data.
- Strong expertise in SQL, with the ability to write simple queries efficiently.
- Proficiency in Snowflake, with intermediate to expert-level experience in data warehousing and cloud-based data management.
- Hands-on experience with ETL processes, including designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines.
- Familiarity with DBT or a similar data modeling tool for transformation workflows.
- Demonstrated experience in dashboard creation and data visualization, particularly using Tableau.
- Experience working with project management and collaboration tools such as Confluence, JIRA, and Slack.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of DataBricks as a data warehouse solution
- Experience using Microsoft Power BI for data visualization in a financial or corporate setting.
- Understanding of financial data structures and reporting needs.
- Experience working in cross-functional teams supporting finance, accounting, or business intelligence functions.
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