Full Stack Data Engineer

On behalf of our client, Affinity is seeking a Full Stack Data Engineer consultant for a six month contract. In this role, you will be at the forefront of data engineering, focusing on developing robust data pipelines and leveraging business analytics to drive insights.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and enhance data pipelines, spanning from data ingestion to storage, analysis, and presentation.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional team members, including full stack engineers, presentation specialists, and program managers, to shape our data platform.
• Take a lead role in designing and architecting our data infrastructure, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Interface with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Investigate and troubleshoot issues across the application stack and underlying systems.
• Establish and uphold technical standards while guiding the team on technical direction.
• Assume ownership of specific areas within our data infrastructure, including documentation, monitoring, and customer support.
• Drive data-driven decision-making by formulating and answering critical business questions.
• Mentor team members on best practices for data modeling and engineering.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and continuously expand your skill set.
  

Requirements:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience in software development best practices.
• Familiarity with data engineering tools such as Databricks, Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, Apache Spark, or their equivalents on Azure and GCP.
• Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT pipelines and data modeling.
• Interest in data analysis, visualization, and presentation.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a remote, asynchronous environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to manage priorities and adapt to ambiguity.
• Self-motivated and passionate about leveraging data to drive insights.
• Experience with Jupyter notebooks or similar tools for development.
• Proficiency in utilizing third-party services via API calls, such as AWS Textract.
• Knowledge of statistics and experience with R.
• Familiarity with reporting tools like PowerBI or Tableau.
• Comfortable working with multidimensional data and real-money applications.
• Understanding of data privacy, security, and anonymization techniques, including differential privacy.
• Familiarity with pipeline orchestrators such as Databricks Workflows and Airflow.
  

Affinity Earn:

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About Affinity:

Affinity Group is a full-service Information Technology services and staffing company. We believe recruiting is about creating long term relationships that foster a mutually beneficial partnership - an affinity. Bringing a new style of recruiting founded on five core principles:
Transparency - Flexibility - Efficiency - Agility - Inclusivity.

We teamed up with ClimatePartner on 2022 to offset our emissions and move toward being a more environmentally friendly company and we are proud to now be officially Carbon Neutral Certified.

For more information on Affinity, please visit affinity-group.ca

Job Number:
10188

Affinity Earn:

Know someone who's great for this, or any of our open roles? Earn up to $4,000/year for each successful referral through Affinity Earn. You can also earn up to $50,000 for helping us find new clients. Learn about our referral program at
/affinity-group.ca/earn/ or browse our jobs & follow us at ***/company/affinity-staffing/jobs/

About Affinity:

Affinity Group is a full-service Information Technology services and staffing company. We believe recruiting is about creating long term relationships that foster a mutually beneficial partnership - an affinity. Bringing a new style of recruiting founded on five core principles:
Transparency - Flexibility - Efficiency - Agility - Inclusivity.

We teamed up with ClimatePartner on 2022 to offset our emissions and move toward being a more environmentally friendly company and we are proud to now be officially Carbon Neutral Certified.

For more information on Affinity, please visit affinity-group.ca

Job Number:
10260