Senior Technical Consultant - Data & Analytics

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business by combining cloud infrastructure, automation, analytics, and software delivery to support digital transformation. The Senior Technical Consultant - Data & Analytics role focuses on strategic planning and hands-on engineering of Big Data and cloud environments, designing modern data platforms, leading projects, and enabling analytics and machine learning initiatives.

Responsibilities

A Data Engineer should be able to design, build, operationalize, secure, and monitor data processing systems

Create robust and automated pipelines to ingest and process structured and unstructured data from various source systems into analytical platforms using batch and streaming mechanisms leveraging cloud native toolset

Implement custom applications using tools such as Kinesis, Lambda and other cloud native tools as required to address streaming use cases

Engineers and supports data structures including but not limited to SQL and NoSQL databases

Engineers and maintain ELT processes for loading data lake (Snowflake, Cloud Storage, Hadoop)

Engineers API’s for returning data from these structures to the Enterprise Applications

Leverages the right tools for the right job to deliver testable, maintainable, and modern data solutions

Respond to customer/team inquiries and assist in troubleshooting and resolving challenges

Works with other scrum team members to estimate and deliver work inside of a sprint

Research data questions, identifies root causes, and interacts closely with business users and technical resources

Benefits

Remote work arrangement

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401(k)

Paid company holidays

Paid time off

Paid parental and caregiver leave

Cross-department training and development

Sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning

Company

Enterprise digital platform engineering and IT modernization services.

Chicago, Illinois, USA

https://www.ahead.com/

Founded in 2007

1001-5000 employees

Qualifications

8+ years of professional technical experience

4+ years of hands-on Data Architecture and Data Modelling

4+ years of experience building highly scalable data solutions using Hadoop, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake

4+ years of programming languages such as Python

2+ years of experience working in cloud environments (AWS and/or Azure)

Strong client-facing communication and facilitation skills

Python, Cloud, Linux, Windows, NoSQL, Git, ETL/ELT, Spark, Hadoop, Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Snowflake, SQL/RDBMS, OLAP, Data Engineering

4+ years of hands-on Data Architecture and Data Modelling.

Required skills

Data Architecture, Data Modeling, Python, Hadoop, Apache Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Microsoft Azure, SQL, NoSQL Databases, ETL/ELT, Client-facing Communication

Experience

8+ years