Redshift / SQL Data Engineer

Our partner is looking for a multifaceted SQL Developer to play a critical role with the Data Engineering team.  You will be part of the team working to deliver paginated reports, data through API driven request, data element visualizations and grid-based reports in a near real time manner.  You will work with a team of internal and external resources in design and objectives, and drive overall platform performance.

The ideal candidate will have solid experience in a technical position and be adept at interpreting customer deliverables and platform opportunities.

Key Areas of responsibility:

●        Actively participating in creation (or facilitation) of specifications

●        Actively participating in project sizing and resource requirements

●        Work with the team to brainstorm the technical solution

●        Arrive at a consensus for solution architecture and design

●        Analyze existing SQL queries for performance improvements

●        Optimizing performance of queries, data pipelines, reports and dashboards

●        Perform data quality checks on extracted data

●        Create reports and dashboards that make complex data easily consumable

●        Ensuring quality of the end deliverable

●        Establishing and executing the deployment strategy

●        Communicate status updates

●        Comfortable with iterative development

●        A thorough understanding of software processes (development, configuration, testing, and deployment)

●        Be a motivated self-starter who is also a team player with great cross-group collaboration skills

●        Excellent oral and communication skills

●        Track record of successfully delivering high quality projects on time in a fast-paced/rapidly changing environment

●        Detail oriented, yet able to look at a wide array of choices

●        5 to 8+ years of relevant work experience in SQL software development

●        3 to 5 years of relevant work experience in AWS

●        3 to 5 years of experience with AWS ecosystem, especially Redshift and S3

●        Strong understanding of data architecture, modeling and infrastructure

●        Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g.  D3, PowerBI, AG—Grid)

●        Experience with large, cross-functional technical projects

●        Experience delivering production‐grade software

●        Extensive experience troubleshooting internal and externally developed code.

●        Comfortable handling scope change and uncertainty

●        Ability to assist others in their work and assess the quality of other’s work.

●        Excited to learn new technologies

●        Enjoys solving problems / finding new solutions to technical challenges

●        CI/CD practices

●        Atlassian JIRA experience a plus

●       5 extra days off per year (not available for contractors).

●       Participation in professional events, workshops and hackathons.

●       Provision of a modern company laptop.

●       Flexible working hours with the opportunity to achieve a work-life balance.

●       Team building events where building community and strengthening relationships is a priority.