What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Data Modeler position at Ampcus, Inc?
Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.
Job Title: Senior Data Modeler
Locations: Washington, DC
Responsibilities:
- Leverage financial industry expertise to define conceptual, logical and physical data models in Databricks to support new and existing business domains
- Work with product owners, system architects, data engineers, and vendors to create data models optimized for query performance, compute and storage costs
- Define best practices for the implementation of the Bronze/Silver/Gold data layers of the lake house
- Provide data model documentation and artifacts generated from data, data dictionary, data definitions, etc.
Education:
- At least ten or more years of experience in AI, Data Science, Software Engineering experience, including knowledge of Data ecosystem.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field is required or equivalent work experience.
Experience:
- Data Modeling: Expertise in designing and implementing data models optimized for storage, retrieval, and analytics within Databricks on AWS, including conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling.
- Databricks Proficiency: In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with AWS Databricks platform, including Databricks SQL, Runtime, clusters, notebooks, and integrations.
- ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) Processes: Proficiency in developing ETL pipelines to extract data from various sources, transform it as per business requirements, and load it into the central data lake using Databricks tools and Spark.
- Data Integration: Experience integrating data from heterogeneous sources (relational databases, APIs, files) into Databricks while ensuring data quality, consistency, and lineage.
- Performance Optimization: Ability to optimize data processing workflows and SQL queries in Databricks for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, leveraging partitioning, clustering, caching, and Spark optimization techniques.
- Data Governance and Security: Understanding of data governance principles and implementing security measures to ensure data integrity, confidentiality, and compliance within the centralized data lake environment.
- Advanced SQL and Spark Skills: Proficiency in writing complex SQL queries and Spark code (Scala/Python) for data manipulation, transformation, aggregation, and analysis tasks within Databricks notebooks.
- Cloud Architecture: Understanding of cloud computing principles, AWS architecture, and services for designing scalable and resilient data solutions.
- Data Visualization: Basic knowledge of data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau) to create insightful visualizations and dashboards for data analysis and reporting purposes.
- Familiarity with government cloud deployment regulations/compliance policies such as FedRAMP, FISMA, etc.
Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.
Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.