Cloud Data Engineer

Stefanini - Richmond, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Richmond, VA

251-500 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Stefanini Group is seeking a skilled Information Cloud Data Engineer to join our Enterprise Data Services team in Richmond, VA, with the option for remote work. This position is crucial as we deliver a centralized data and analytics platform that provides advanced data migration and analytics solutions tailored for our banking district customers. Our team utilizes cutting-edge technologies that are integral to the next generation data ecosystem, encompassing tools for data storage, processing, integration, data lakes, warehousing, and analytics. In this role, you will collaborate cross-functionally with Data Architects, Product Owners, Design Engineers, Developers, and Business Analysts in a dynamic environment. Your primary focus will be on identifying solutions and implementing Infrastructure as Code using our CI/CD pipeline. You will be responsible for understanding the technology vision and strategic direction of business needs, developing product roadmaps that align with other data products, and designing integrated solutions that adhere to established design patterns and best practices. You will also participate in defining technical requirements for enabling data analytics within an AWS cloud environment, develop architecture and design conceptual solutions, and conduct research and POCs with emerging technologies. Your expertise will be essential in automating processes through Infrastructure as Code, integrating multiple data sources, and building platforms that support high availability and rehydration. Additionally, you will create automation services using Terraform, Python, and OS shell scripts, and develop validation and certification processes through automation tools. Your role will also involve providing consulting and guidance on business solution development in the data and analytics space, demonstrating leadership and collaboration skills to engage with senior leadership and business leaders effectively.

Responsibilities

• Understand technology vision and strategic direction of business needs
• Develop product roadmaps in alignment with other data products and business roadmaps
• Design integrated solution in alignment with design patterns, blueprints, guidelines, and standard methodologies for products
• Participate in defining technical requirements that outlines solution for enabling data analytics within an AWS cloud environment
• Participate in developing architecture and design conceptual solutions by incorporating cloud native and 3rd party vendor products
• Provide analysis of current state, future state, and define key outcomes for an IT data platform strategy
• 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
• Demonstrate automation through Infrastructure as a code to increase build efficiency in the cloud
• Develop scripting to integrate multiple data sources to data and analytics platform
• Build platform supporting rehydration and HA
• 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
• Develop multi-layered build, installation, configuration, patching, regression testing, and rollback scripts in each environment
• Integrate platforms to form a cohesive data mesh and help democratize data
• Create patching process to compare different versions of the configuration settings
• Provide consulting and guidance on business solution development in the data and analytics space and cloud technologies
• 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 the client and the Board to share the business value
• Promote collaboration across business and IT organizations

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience; advanced degree preferred
• 5+ years in designing and building data services with all aspects of cloud design, development, and implementation
• 3+ years of experience with full stack development, including application, API, testing, and automation experience using at least one of the following languages (Terraform, JSON, Python)
• 3+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting solutions hosted either on-prem or in the cloud, and experience with migrating data to the cloud
• Advanced proficiency in cloud specific solutions related to gateways, streaming services, or file and database migration services
• Experience in developing product roadmap in alignment with other data products and business roadmaps
• Experience with leveraging CI/CD pipelines and GitLab is a must
• Hands on experience in Terraform, Python, and OS shell scripts including automation tools
• Hands on experience in one or more languages such as Java, JavaScript
• Experience with other AWS data related services including various compute and storage offerings
• Experience with RDS, NOSQL Databases, RDBMS and in-memory databases
• Strong background in data structures, networking, performance, and scalability
• Must be familiar with Agile methodologies and able to work in an Agile manner
• Must have a very strong application development background

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with data access management platform such as Immuta or Privacera, and data mesh is strongly preferred
• Microservices experience is strongly preferred

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $120.00 - $128.00 per hour
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and evolving environment
• Engagement with senior leadership and business leaders
• Collaboration across business and IT organizations