Data Engineer

at Teksystems in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

This role is full time, direct placement and cannot offer sponsorship and is not available for C2C.

Description:

As a Data Engineer, you will…

- Design, develop, implement, and maintain solutions in Azure using the following tech: Azure SQL, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, and GraphQL. Expertise in Batch Services, Service Buses, Event Grid, Function Apps, APIM, App Insights, Key Vault, and performance tuning/optimization.

- Care about quality and clean code; deliver high quality code including logging, alerting, and monitoring – the DevOps mindset

- Work in an agile fashion to develop, estimate, test, and maintain our backend systems, while collaborating with team members on product backlog grooming, sprint planning, execution, review, and retrospective

- Be an active contributor to development best practices and code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed, implementation meets requirements, and proper tests are written

- Communicate effectively with all associates and business contacts to promote a strong sense of teamwork

- Foster an innovative culture with an eye towards a DevOps mindset, scalability, reliability & performance

- Design high-performing queries and views; performance tuning of queries

- Design efficient DB schemas

- Data Driven Unit tests for Validating SQL

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or comparable work experience

- 5+ years of proven experience working as a hands-on Backend Software Engineer in an agile environment with multiple programming languages, frameworks, cloud architecture:

o Languages: T-SQL, Python

o ETL: Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks

o Architectural Patterns: Data Warehousing, Medallion Architecture, Microservices Architecture, Event-based Architecture

o Source control: Git code management

o Strong data modeling and lineage experience

- Deploying production services in a cloud environment; ideally Azure including:

o Azure Functions, Azure Data Factory, Azure Batch Service, Azure API Management

o App Insights (Logging / Alerts)

- Demonstrated experience in identifying, debugging, and resolving complex production issues

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong cognitive ability especially with respect to understanding, documenting, and describing complex technical subjects

- Strong interpersonal skills and broad business and technical knowledge

Bonus Skills

- APIs: C# REST APIs (bonus: Azure Function Apps, GraphQL)

- Cloud experience with Azure (Web Apps, Terraform, Azure DevOps, DBT)

We’re partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That’s the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.