Cloud Data Engineer at Virtual Company

Reston, VA 20190

About the Job

SUMMARY: The Cloud Data Engineer role develops and maintains robust and scalable integrations and data pipelines. This role will be part of a collaborative remote team working closely with other engineers, analysts, architects, and business stakeholders to develop reliable and modular data flows and integrations on an agile cycle that automate core business needs at scale and empower online education for students across the United States.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

Develop modular data integrations following an event-based architecture, partnering with data analysts and architects to understand and meet development requirements for each use-case.
Partner with other engineers and technical leads for collaboration, support, and alignment throughout design/development and to solve development blockers if they arise.
Develop robust unit testing on developed code and drive integration, end-to-end, and performance testing to ensure each data integration is reliable, scalable, and meets business needs before deployment.
Drive developed integrations through a CI/CD process to validate, test, and deploy reliable solutions for production use.
Communicate and demo developed data integration solutions and progress with stakeholders in bi-weekly sprint reviews to drive transparency and collaboration between teams.
Maintain deployed data integrations, monitoring for any issues and resolving as they arise.

This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.

MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent training;
Three (3) years of relevant professional experience working with, building, and/or managing AWS cloud services including AWS Lambda, Step Functions, DMS, Kinesis, S3, RDS, Glue, EC2, CloudWatch, CloudFormation or equivalent Azure/GCP services;
Proficiency in Python development;
Proficiency in using SQL and APIs to automate interactions with various data stores and systems;
Familiarity with pub/sub event-based architecture and ETL data pipeline patterns;
Demonstrated experience with software development best practices including developing robust unit, integration, functional, and performance tests>;
Demonstrated experience following enterprise-grade DevOps practices including release management, CI/CD pipelines;
Demonstrated success in working with a highly collaborative and agile remote development team;
Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint and SharePoint);
Ability to travel up to 10% of the time;
Ability to clear required background check;

Certificates and Licenses: None required.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Experience in education and/or educational technology industries;
Experience developing pub/sub event-based architectures, data streaming, data integration, and batch data pipelines;
Experience working with various data storage types including relational databases, object storage, graph databases, data warehouses;
Experience with Snowflake or equivalent data warehousing and services;
AWS or Azure cloud certifications;

Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

EEO Notice

Vaco is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.

Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .

Vaco also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.

By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

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Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
licensure and certification requirements;
office location and other geographic considerations;
other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.