Senior Data Engineer - Part-Time

Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to work directly with agencies, enabling them to reach their desired development delivery efficiency and system resiliency through optimized Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.

As a forward-deployed engineer, you’ll partner with agencies to solve complex challenges, gather insights, and drive continuous improvement in our product offerings. This role combines deep technical expertise with a commitment to customer enablement and feedback, ensuring that our Core Engineering Products evolve to address the real-world needs of our customers.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be working on:

•      Translate data requirements from business users into technical specifications.

•       Collaborate with partner agency’s IT teams on technology stack, infrastructure and security alignment.

•      Build out data product as part of a data team:

•      Architect and build ingestion pipelines to collect, clean, merge, and harmonize data from different source systems.

•       Day-to-day monitoring of databases and ETL systems, e.g., database capacity planning and maintenance, monitoring, and performance tuning; diagnose issues and deploy measures to prevent recurrence; ensure maximum database uptime;

•       Construct, test, and update useful and reusable data models based on data needs of endusers.

•       Design and build secure mechanisms for end users and systems to access data in data warehouse.

•       Research, propose and develop new technologies and processes to improve agency data infrastructure.

•       Collaborate with data stewards to establish and enforce data governance policies, best practices and procedures.

•      Maintain data catalogue to document data assets, metadata and lineage.

•       Implement data quality checks and validation processes to ensure data accuracy and consistency.

•      Implement and enforce data security best practices, including access control, encryption, and data masking, to safeguard sensitive data.

What we are looking for:

• A Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related disciplines.

• Deep understanding of system design, data structure and algorithms, data modelling, data access, and data storage.

• Demonstrated ability in using cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

• Experience with Databricks.

• Experience in designing, building, and maintaining batch and real-time data pipelines.

• Experience with orchestration frameworks such as Airflow, Azure Data Factory.

• Proficiency in working with Python, Shell Scripts, and SQL.

Preferred requirements:

• Familiarity with building and using CI/CD pipelines.

• Familiarity with DevOps tools such as Docker, Git, Terraform.

• Experience with implementing technical processes to enforce data security, data quality, and data governance.

• Familiarity with government systems and government's policies relating to data governance, data management, data infrastructure, and data security.

• Experience in Climate and Weather domains will be an advantage.

Interested candidates, please send your CVs on [email protected]

Regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

CEI: R1988671

EA License: 14C7275