What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Engineer (HR Data warehousing exp) position at Ness Digital Engineering?
Ness is a full lifecycle digital engineering firm offering digital advisory through scaled engineering services. Combining our core competence in engineering with the latest in digital strategy and technology, we seamlessly manage Digital Transformation journeys from strategy through execution to help businesses thrive in the digital economy. As your tech partner, we help engineer your company’s future with cloud and data. For more information, visit www.ness.com
Data Engineer (HR Data warehousing exp)
Boston, MA (3-4 days onsite a week)
Key Responsibilities:
- Translate business needs into data modeling strategies and implement Snowflake data models to support HR analytics, KPIs, and reporting.
- Design, build, and maintain Snowflake objects including tables, views, and stored procedures.
- Develop and execute SQL or Python transformations, data mappings, cleansing, validation, and conversion processes.
- Establish and enforce data governance standards to ensure consistency, quality, and completeness of data assets.
- Manage technical metadata and documentation for data warehousing and migration efforts.
- Optimize performance of data transformation pipelines and monitor integration performance.
- Design, configure, and optimize integrations between Workday and third-party applications.
- Participate in system testing including unit, integration, and regression phases.
- Support data analysis needs throughout the implementation lifecycle.
Required Experience & Skills:
- Experience with Snowflake or similar data warehouse platforms
- Strong SQL skills and experience with data transformation tools
- Experience with ETL processes and data validation techniques
- Understanding of HR data structures and relationships
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Experience with developing with Python
- Architecting a data warehousing solution leveraging data from Workday or other HRIS such as Workday to support advanced reporting and insights for an organization
Preferred Experience & Skills:
- Experience in developing and supporting a data warehouse serving the HR domain
- Experience with data platforms where SCD Type 2 was required
- Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau
- Experience with architecting or working with ELT technologies (such as DBT) and data architectures
- Understanding of HR processes, compliance requirements, and industry best practices
Ness is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law
Salary : $70 - $95