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Application Enablement - Senior Data Engineer (Hybrid)

Job Description

Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

Data Engineer for Application Enablement will be part of the Scientific data consumption product team. In this role, they will work with product teams, technical teams, SMEs and stakeholders to define, design, develop and maintain data products.

In this role, they will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams helping to solve complex data problems and building data products to enable AI/ML. They will have to understand complexities in Research data and work with product team to make data understandable and analytics ready.

The Scientific Data Consumption Product Line (SDC) provides a combination of technology, infrastructure, software, and personnel to support large scale scientific data consumption and computing comprising of the Scientific Data Platform, Modeling and Machine Learning Platforms, High Performance Computing (HPC) workflows, and "experience" products such as visualization, modeling workbenches, and analytics development environments.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop and maintain data pipelines to extract data from a variety of sources and populate data lake and data warehouse
  • Develop the various data transformation rules and data modeling capabilities
  • Collaborate with Product Analyst, Data Scientists, and Machine Learning Engineers to identify and transform data to make data understandable.
  • Work with data governance team and implement data quality checks and maintain data catalogs
  • Use Orchestration, logging, and monitoring tools to build resilient pipelines
  • Use test driven development methodology when building ELT/ETL pipelines
  • Analyze data
  • Use Git for version control and understand various branching strategies
  • Work as part of an agile team
  • Create technical documentation as needed



Education:

  • B.Sc. or higher degree in computer sciences or an equivalent field required



Required Experience and Skills:

  • 3-6 years of relevant experience
  • Solid experience with AWS services (S3, IAM, Redshift, Sagemaker, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, CloudWatch)
  • Experience with platforms like Databricks, Dataiku
  • Proficient in Python / Java
  • Proficient with SQL - Redshift preferred
  • Proficient in Jenkins, CloudFormation, Terraform, Git, Docker
  • 2-3 years of Spark - PySpark
  • Ability to work in cross functional teams



Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

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Employee Status:
Regular

Relocation:
No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:
Yes

Travel Requirements:
10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid

Shift:
1st - Day

Valid Driving License:
Yes

Hazardous Material(s):
N/A

Required Skills:
Business Intelligence (BI), Database Administration, Data Engineering, Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, Information Management, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Network Infrastructures, Software Development

Preferred Skills:
Agile Systems, AWS CloudFormation, Data Applications, Data Integration, Data Quality Assessments, Data Transformation, Data Warehouse Development, Delivery Management, Documentations, Git, Git Flow, GitHub, HPC, HR Service Delivery, Information Technology Strategies, IT Documentation, IT Service Delivery, Pipeline Management, Project Documentation, Qualitative Analysis Software, Service Delivery, Software Application Testing, Software Documentation, Workflow Management

Requisition ID:R247735

Application Enablement - Senior Data Engineer (Hybrid)

Boston, MA
Full Time

Published on 01/19/2025

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