Job Title: Senior Data EngineerLocation: Omaha, NEEmployment Type: Contract Job Summary:As a Senior Data Engineer, you will lead and own the Enterprise Data Platform and its data products, playing a pivotal role in enabling data-driven decision-making across the organization. You will collaborate with cross-functional Portfolio and Business Teams to ensure data accessibility, quality, and reliability. Acting as a subject matter expert and mentor, you will drive the success of data initiatives, streamline data processes, and empower teams to collaborate effectively.Key Responsibilities: - Lead the development and implementation of data-related features and stories within the Enterprise Data Platform.- Collaborate with data scientists, business analysts, and cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and priorities.- Break down complex data tasks into manageable components and assign tasks to team members for delivery.- Ensure high data quality standards, maintaining accuracy and reliability of data.- Create and manage data models, validating them with key business representatives, data owners, data architects, and end-users.- Build automations to validate source-to-target data accuracy during build, testing, and support phases.- Identify and resolve data-related issues proactively or based on input from end-users.- Create complex and efficient SQL data transformations and views for various use cases.- Perform SQL performance tuning, including identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks, join optimization, data model optimization, and data pre-processing.- Oversee the creation of automated test cases to ensure data values are within expected ranges, complete, and within quality parameters.- Develop job schedules for data flows and ensure seamless data integration.- Mentor junior team members and offshore data engineers.- Operate within a DevOps framework for maintaining source control and deploying database objects; create automated test cases when checking in DB objects.- Ensure the health and quality of operational support provided by third-party services.Position Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree from an accredited university preferred or 5+ years of experience in an IT data-related role.- Proven ability to communicate effectively with analysts, offshore resources, and leadership; prior experience leading junior team members.- Demonstrated knowledge of business concepts and processes related to supported data domains.- Deep experience (5+ years) in writing and debugging complex SQL on RDBMS platforms like Snowflake, SQL Server, and Oracle.- Proficient in Python and PySpark for data processing and transformation.- Experience with DevOps frameworks and source control- Proficient in using ETL tools like Informatica IICS, Talend, Data Services, and SSIS.- Experience with cloud-based technologies like Databricks, Snowflake, and Palantir.- Experience operating within an Agile framework to break down, estimate, assign, and complete work. Jim HalpinSenior Unit ManagerLaSalle Network
