Sr. Data Engineer (Local/Remote)

We have an immediate need for a contract Sr. Data Engineer to join a global mass media and entertainment conglomerate.

Location: Burbank, CA. Remote but MUST be local to Burbank.

This job expects to pay about $100 - 125 per hour plus benefits.

What You Will Do:

• Contribute to maintaining, updating, and expanding existing Core Data platform data pipelines
• Build tools and services to support data discovery, lineage, governance, and privacy
• Collaborate with other software/data engineers and cross-functional teams
• Tech stack includes Airflow, Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake, and Snowflake
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and others to drive the success of the Core Data platform
• Contribute to developing and documenting both internal and external standards and best practices for pipeline configurations, naming conventions, and more
• Ensure high operational efficiency and quality of the Core Data platform datasets to ensure our solutions meet SLAs and project reliability and accuracy to all our stakeholders
• Be an active participant and advocate of agile/scrum ceremonies to collaborate and improve processes
• Engage with and understand our customers, forming relationships that allow us to understand and prioritize both innovative new offerings and incremental platform improvements
• Maintain detailed documentation of work and changes to support data quality & data governance requirements

What Gets You The Job:

• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems equivalent industry experience
• 5 years of data engineering experience developing large data pipelines
• Proficiency in at least one major programming language (e.g. Python, Java, Scala)
• Strong SQL skills and ability to create queries to analyze complex datasets
• Hands-on production environment experience with distributed processing systems such as Spark
• Hands-on production experience with data pipeline orchestration systems such as Airflow for creating and maintaining data pipelines
• Experience with at least one major Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) or cloud database technology (Snowflake, Databricks, Big Query).
• Experience in developing APIs with GraphQL
• Deep Understanding of AWS or other cloud providers as well as infrastructure as code
• Familiarity with Data Modeling techniques and Data Warehousing standard methodologies and practices
• Strong algorithmic problem-solving expertise

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