Senior Data Engineer

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. Asa 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, youwill 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 end users. ·      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, meta data 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.