CLOUD DATA ENGINEER
Company: Saxon Global
Location: Chicago
Posted on: October 31, 2024
Job Description:
Job Description:
You have the opportunity to join a small team focused on the firm's
strategic investments in our Cloud Data Operations space. You are a
passionate visionary and technologist with a focus on data
operations, cloud solutions, and implementations. In your role, you
will be given great latitude to flex your skillset while benefiting
from the support of our many AWS Certified team members.
As a Cloud Data Engineer, your efforts will advance the firm's
capabilities to deliver the strategy for optimized solution
architectures as relates to data lakes, data warehouses, and
analytics, ensuring our technology solutions safeguard the
security, privacy, and integrity of our firm. You will collaborate
with our Engineering and Product teams to provide sound solution
architectures in accordance with industry wide best practices.
Qualifications
- Self-starter / autonomy is a must. Demonstrated ability to
self-teach, learn, and apply learnings as a regular course of
activity.
- Work during Chicago, Central Standard Time, office hours for
billed time.
- Experience building & operating data lakes and data warehouse
solutions on AWS.
- Comfortable documenting designs using modeling methodologies;
I.e., UML.
- 3+ years Solution Architecture experience, including 2+ years
of Data Architecture.
- 3+ years hands-on AWS experience.
- 3+ years Software Development experience, including 2+ years of
Python (including Spark) experience. Hands-on experience with
several of the following AWS services (Athena, Glue ETL & Crawlers,
Redshift, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, CLI, EC2, Step Functions,
CloudWatch).
- 2+ years hands-on AWS CI/CD experience including CodeCommit,
CodePipeline and CloudFormation. A well-grounded knowledge of
engineering and continuous delivery practices using modern software
development tooling (e.g., GitHub, IDEA, PyCharm, Visual Studio,
etc.), processes (e.g., Scrum, Agile), and toolsets (e.g., JIRA,
Confluence).
- 2+ years on business intelligence / reporting tools, such as
Tableau, Power BI, etc.
- 1+ years hands-on experience crafting IAM Security Policies and
Roles, as well as S3 Bucket Policies.
- Strong DevOps mindset and experience in promoting code from
staging to production environments through automation.
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science, related Software or Data
Engineering or equivalent experience.
- AWS Certified, such as Solution Architect, Analytics, and/or
DevOps. **MUST HAVE**
- ACTIVE AWS Architect Associate (Solution Architect, Analytics,
and/or DevOps)
- Resume synthesis - efficient, effective communication)
- If they can't write an effective resume (8 pages long, full of
details - won't get a look)
- Design level thinking
- Some sense of design
- Ability to articulate their ideas verbally at different levels
as well as technically model
- Confluence (don't search for this, just qualify it when
speaking with folks - this will help you understand how much they
are accustomed to articulating their solutions)
- Open to daily walkthroughs
- Very collaborative & iterative
- Use CloudFormation templates (CFT) to manage IAM roles and
polices.
- Also, use of CFT and CodePipeline to provision AWS
resources.
- Technologies most commonly referenced in job intake:
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