OpenArc - Empowering Your Career. As a leading IT staffing firm, we are dedicated to connecting talented professionals with your ideal opportunities. We are currently seeking a qualified Data Engineer to join our client’s organization and contribute to their ongoing success. 

Job summary

Responsibilities:

• Define and lead the data lifecycle strategy across data acquisition, data ingestion, data cleansing, normalization and linkage. 
• Ensure key entities within datasets are identified, resolved and linked to existing entities within the current master data repository.
• Apply various techniques to produce solutions to large-scale optimization problems, including data pre-processing, indexing, blocking, field and record comparison and classification.
• Improve data sharing, increase data repurposing and improve cost efficiency associated with data management efforts. 
• Build best practices that help with chain of custody of data so it can be easily traced back to the source for accuracy and consistency.
• Work across functional teams to understand advanced statistical, machine learning, and text processing models and incorporate them into the existing data engineering infrastructure.
• Perform exploratory data analyses, generate and test working hypotheses, prepare and analyze historical data and identify patterns.
• Work directly with users as well as SMEs to establish, create and populate optimal data architectures and structures, as well as articulate techniques and results using non-technical language.

Requirements:

• Experience with programmatically transforming data 
• Experience with RDBMS
• Advanced SQL programming skills
• Proficient usage of common data formats such as CSV, XML, and JSON
• Requires strong analytical ability and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently with little supervision
• A burning desire to tackle hard problems and create sustainable solutions
• Experience using Amazon Web Services
• Experience in or exposure to the nuances of a startup or other entrepreneurial environment
• Working knowledge with large (multiple terabytes) amounts of data

At OpenArc, we prioritize your career success and strive to build exceptional technical teams for our clients. By understanding your experience and aspirations, we ensure to present you with rewarding and fulfilling opportunities. 

As an employee of OpenArc and our clients, you will be eligible to participate in a comprehensive benefits package.

OpenArc is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.