Sr Data Engineer

$166,400 - $187,200/Yr

The Judge Group - Miami, FL

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Miami, FL

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Sr Data Engineer position is a contract role focused on developing and implementing data solutions to address business challenges. The role involves collaborating with business partners to identify problems, establishing data strategies, and designing secure and scalable data architectures. The engineer will also be responsible for hands-on prototyping and managing enterprise data models, ensuring effective data governance and management practices.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business partners to identify business problems and generate ideas to tackle them.
• Test hypotheses through rapid prototyping and establish target state architecture to achieve business goals.
• Define, publish, and communicate data strategy, standards, patterns, reference architectures, frameworks, and roadmaps to enable data sharing across the enterprise.
• Partner with other architecture fields to design data solutions with a strong focus on security, scalability, observability, and operational excellence.
• Apply the latest research and industry trends to build best-in-class enterprise data solutions for data consumers.
• Build solution prototypes and conduct experiments to evaluate architectural alternatives.
• Manage, govern, and promote enterprise data model management practice.
• Develop enterprise conceptual, logical, and physical data models for batch and streaming architectures.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Experience with modeling HR data and Workday required.
• 5+ years with advanced SQL and scripting (python/pyspark) development.
• 2+ years of experience with cloud-based infrastructure (databricks/redshift).
• 5+ years of enterprise data architecture, design patterns, tradeoff analysis, and delivery acceleration in cloud-native environments.
• 3+ years of data solutions enabling Analytical, Operational, Data Science, and ML data flows.
• 2+ years developing or working with taxonomies/ontologies.
• Experience working/collaborating with Master Data Management and Data Governance.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or similar analytical field.
• Experience with data modeling tools such as DBT.