Cloud AWS Engineer - Varite, Inc
Richmond, VA 23219
About the Job
Job Descriptions:
" Understand technology vision and strategic direction of business needs
" Understand our current data model and infrastructure, proactively identify gaps, areas for improvement, and prescribe architectural recommendations with a focus on performance and accessibility.
" Partner across engineering teams to design, build, and support the next generation of our analytics systems.
" Partner with business and analytics teams to understand specific requirements for data systems to support both development and deployment of data workloads ranging from Tableau reports to ad hoc analyses.
" Own and develop architecture supporting the translation of analytical questions into effective reports that drive business action.
" Automate and optimize existing data processing workloads by recognizing patterns of data and technology usage and implementing solutions.
" Solid grasp of the intersection between analytics and engineering while maintaining a proactive approach to assure solutions demonstrate high levels of performance, privacy, security, scalability, and reliability upon deployment.
" Provide guidance to partners on effective use of the database management systems (DBMS) platform through collaboration, documentation, and associated standard methodologies.
" Design and build end to end automation to support and maintain software currency
" Create automation services for builds using Terraform, Python, and OS shell scripts.
" Develop validation and certification process through automation tools
" Design integrated solutions in alignment with design patterns, blueprints, guidelines, and standard methodologies for products
" Participate in developing solutions by incorporating cloud native and 3rd party vendor products
" Participate in research and perform POCs (proofs of concept) with emerging technologies and adopt industry best practices in the data space for advancing the cloud data platform.
" Develop data streaming, migration and replication solutions
" Demonstrate leadership, collaboration, exceptional communication, negotiation, strategic and influencing skills to gain consensus and produce the best solutions.
" Engage with Senior leadership, business leaders at Client and the Board to share the business value.
Qualifications:
" Demonstrates mutual respect, embraces diversity, and acts with authenticity
" Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience; advance degree preferred
" Seven or more years of experience in designing and building large-scale solutions in an enterprise setting in both
" Three years in designing and building solutions in the cloud
" Expertise in building and managing Cloud databases such as AWS RDS, DynamoDB, DocumentDB or analogous architectures
" Expertise in building Cloud Database Management Systems in Databricks Lakehouse or analogous architectures
" Expertise in Cloud Data Warehouses in Redshift, BigQuery or analogous architectures a plus
" Deep SQL expertise, data modeling, and experience with data governance in relational databases
" Experience with the practical application of data warehousing concepts, methodologies, and frameworks using traditional (Vertica, Teradata, etc.) and current (SparkSQL, Hadoop, Kafka) distributed technologies
" Refined skills using one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python, bash, etc.)
" Experience using ETL/ELT tools and technologies such as Talend, Informatica a plus
" Embrace data platform thinking, design and develop data pipelines keeping security, scale, uptime and reliability in mind
" Expertise in relational and dimensional data modeling
" UNIX admin and general server administration experience required
" Presto, Hive, SparkSQL, Cassandra, or Solr other Big Data query and transformation experience a plus
" Experience using Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, or similar distributed data technologies a plus
" Able to expertly express the benefits and constraints of technology solutions to technology partners, business partners, and team members
" Experience with leveraging CI/CD pipelines
" Experience with Agile methodologies and able to work in an Agile manner is preferred
" One or more cloud certifications
" Understand technology vision and strategic direction of business needs
" Understand our current data model and infrastructure, proactively identify gaps, areas for improvement, and prescribe architectural recommendations with a focus on performance and accessibility.
" Partner across engineering teams to design, build, and support the next generation of our analytics systems.
" Partner with business and analytics teams to understand specific requirements for data systems to support both development and deployment of data workloads ranging from Tableau reports to ad hoc analyses.
" Own and develop architecture supporting the translation of analytical questions into effective reports that drive business action.
" Automate and optimize existing data processing workloads by recognizing patterns of data and technology usage and implementing solutions.
" Solid grasp of the intersection between analytics and engineering while maintaining a proactive approach to assure solutions demonstrate high levels of performance, privacy, security, scalability, and reliability upon deployment.
" Provide guidance to partners on effective use of the database management systems (DBMS) platform through collaboration, documentation, and associated standard methodologies.
" Design and build end to end automation to support and maintain software currency
" Create automation services for builds using Terraform, Python, and OS shell scripts.
" Develop validation and certification process through automation tools
" Design integrated solutions in alignment with design patterns, blueprints, guidelines, and standard methodologies for products
" Participate in developing solutions by incorporating cloud native and 3rd party vendor products
" Participate in research and perform POCs (proofs of concept) with emerging technologies and adopt industry best practices in the data space for advancing the cloud data platform.
" Develop data streaming, migration and replication solutions
" Demonstrate leadership, collaboration, exceptional communication, negotiation, strategic and influencing skills to gain consensus and produce the best solutions.
" Engage with Senior leadership, business leaders at Client and the Board to share the business value.
Qualifications:
" Demonstrates mutual respect, embraces diversity, and acts with authenticity
" Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience; advance degree preferred
" Seven or more years of experience in designing and building large-scale solutions in an enterprise setting in both
" Three years in designing and building solutions in the cloud
" Expertise in building and managing Cloud databases such as AWS RDS, DynamoDB, DocumentDB or analogous architectures
" Expertise in building Cloud Database Management Systems in Databricks Lakehouse or analogous architectures
" Expertise in Cloud Data Warehouses in Redshift, BigQuery or analogous architectures a plus
" Deep SQL expertise, data modeling, and experience with data governance in relational databases
" Experience with the practical application of data warehousing concepts, methodologies, and frameworks using traditional (Vertica, Teradata, etc.) and current (SparkSQL, Hadoop, Kafka) distributed technologies
" Refined skills using one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python, bash, etc.)
" Experience using ETL/ELT tools and technologies such as Talend, Informatica a plus
" Embrace data platform thinking, design and develop data pipelines keeping security, scale, uptime and reliability in mind
" Expertise in relational and dimensional data modeling
" UNIX admin and general server administration experience required
" Presto, Hive, SparkSQL, Cassandra, or Solr other Big Data query and transformation experience a plus
" Experience using Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, or similar distributed data technologies a plus
" Able to expertly express the benefits and constraints of technology solutions to technology partners, business partners, and team members
" Experience with leveraging CI/CD pipelines
" Experience with Agile methodologies and able to work in an Agile manner is preferred
" One or more cloud certifications
Source : Varite, Inc