Job Opening: Data Engineer
Description
Build Data Pipelines. Avoid Actual Traffic. Westaff is on the hunt for a Data Engineer for a state office in Helena, MT!
Pay: $40.09/hour
Schedule: Flexible Full-time, At least 8 hours a day, Monday through Friday
Term: 6 months, potential for permanent position for right fit!
What You Will Do:
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Manages the collection, management, and storage of data across the department. Enhances and maximizes the quality, integrity, reliability, and access to data assets.
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Designs and implements modern application and data architecture focusing on cloud platforms, best-of-breed solutions, and components.
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Builds data pipelines to bring together information from different source systems and creates the required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from multiple sources.
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Where applicable, enable data sharing and interoperable data exchange with other state agencies and external partners/providers.
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Oversees all stages of data onboarding, transformation, and enablement.
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Assembles extensive, complex data sets that meet non-functional and functional business requirements.
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Collaborates with divisions and programs to collect, prepare, organize, and protect the department’s data assets. Implements and enforces data privacy policies to comply with regulations.
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Facilitate collecting and validating data to ingest into the department’s data asset catalog solution.
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Provides data models and engages in data modeling efforts as needed.
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Delivers high-quality, uniform data to support analytics. Improves and streamlines access to data to drive innovation and outcomes.
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Prepares data for analytical and operational uses. Integrates, consolidates, and cleanses data and structures it for analytics applications.
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Enhances and maximizes the quality, integrity, and reliability of data assets. Expands the effective utilization of data through improved usability and accessibility of IT systems.
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Enables data sharing and access across the department. Seeks opportunities to eliminate data redundancies, improve data quality, and provide exceptional data services to the department.
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Assembles large, complex data sets that meet the Office of Research and Performance Analysis (ORPA) business requirements.
What You Will Bring:
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3-5 years’ experience in data analytics, computer science, information technology, or related field. A bachelor’s degree in data sciences is desirable. Combinations of experience and education will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
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Skills in database design, data security, and data lifecycle management (i.e., gathering, cleansing, publishing, archiving, back-up and recovery, and purging) for large enterprise systems.
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Familiarity with master data, metadata, reference data, data warehousing, database structure, business intelligence principles and processes, and technical architecture.
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Knowledge of database management systems, metadata management tools, cloud storage, and associated security considerations.
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Experience in data warehousing and governance.
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Practical experience in enabling data usability, availability, and efficiency.
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Experience in data management, quality, metadata management, and modeling.
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Experience with PowerShell.
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Technologies that the candidate should be fluent in:
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SQL, Oracle, Snowflake, Fivetran, Python, DBT, Gitlab/Github, PowerBI, Tableau, Thoughtspot.
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Successful applicant(s) may be subject to a background check
What You Will Gain:
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Opportunity to work with state office!
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Free online courses after 80 hours worked!
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Benefits offered!
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Weekly pay!