Lead Data Engineer - Remote Eligible

Data Engineer

Our customer is the leading school transportation provider in North America, being the owner of more than a half of all yellow school buses in the United States. Every day, the company completes 5 million student journeys, moving more passengers than all U.S. airlines combined and delivers reliable, quality services for 1,100 school districts.

N-iX has built a successful cooperation with the client delivering a range of complex initiatives. As a result, N-iX has been selected as a strategic long-term partner to drive the digital transformation on an enterprise level, fully remodeling the technology landscape for 55,000 employees and millions of people across North America.

Responsibilities

• Design complex ETL processes of various data sources in the data warehouse
• Build new and maintain existing data pipelines using Python to improve efficiency and latency
• Improve data quality through anomaly detection by building and working with internal tools to measure data and automatically detect changes
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements, including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes
• Perform data modeling and improve our existing data models for analytics
• Collaborate with SMEs, architects, analysts, and others to build solutions that integrate data from many of our enterprise data sources
• Partner with stakeholders, including data, design, product, and executive teams, and assist them with data-related technical issues

Requirements

• Proficiency in Python 7+ years
• 3-5 years of commercial experience in building and maintaining a Data Lake
• Experience leading a Data Lake team of 3-5 Engineers (2 years)
• Good knowledge of AWS cloud services, including the Glue framework with integration type of projects (2 years)
• Experience maintaining Apache Kafka
• Steady expertise in data processing tools, including Redis, Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, Athena.
• Knowledge of job scheduling and orchestration using Airflow
• Experience in events streaming
• Well-versed in the optimization of ETL processes
• Experience of developing high-load backend services on Python.
• Good understanding of algorithms and data structures
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Nice to Have

• Experience in the schema and dimensional data design
• Collaboration within a scaled team, using Agile methodology
• Decent knowledge of CI/CD (Docker, Cloud formation, Git)

We Offer*

• Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Personalized career growth
• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
• Education reimbursement
• Memorable anniversary presents
• Corporate events and team buildings
• Other location-specific benefits

*not applicable for freelancers