Principal Data Engineer Software Technology Inc Eagan, MN

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Prime Therapeutics - Principal Data Engineer

Remote

Contract to hire;

Business Overview:

Team: IT Cloud Data Engineering

• Migrate, enhance, and support enterprise data domains that reside on our cloud-based platform.

Purpose:

• Enable and deliver industry leading data-driven reporting and insights using modern data architecture, data science, and machine learning.

Value Proposition/Selling Points (Market place advantages):

• Unlock health care insights and increase Prime's data IQ to help people feel better and live well
• Work with leading cloud-based technologies
• Gain experience with Big Data
• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines end-to-end
• Collaborate on domain-specific architecture
• Influence and establish patterns and best practices
• Mentor less experienced data engineers
• Participate in strategic planning with senior leadership

Position Overview:

Daily Responsibilities/Job Description:

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines end-to-end
• Review application development designs and collaborate on domain-specific architectural solutions
• Assist management in making strategic decisions regarding software and hardware use; participate in early stages of large project development to ensure consistent approaches in technical designs across projects / program
• Approve, review, and own process of delivery plans for all application business solutions
• Maintain and monitor adherence to architecture, design, and coding principles
• Research and recommend continuous improvement solutions where technology can be better used within overall systems environments
• Provide thought leadership and champion for software development best practices
• Participate in staffing plans to identify subject matter experts (SMEs) and provide feedback for staff performance reviews
• Own application(s) within area, including proactive monitoring and communication of overall health and future sustainability
• Other duties as assigned

Interaction level with Management/Team Members:

• Daily interaction with team members for tasks such as detailed design reviews, code reviews, and support.
• Weekly interaction with management for tasks such as architecture reviews, strategic planning, provide feedback on staff performance, and resource needs
• Weekly to monthly interaction with senior level leadership (Director and above)

Skills Overview:

Qualifications/years of experience:

• Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related area of study, or equivalent combination of education and/or relevant work experience; High School Diploma or GED equivalent required
• 8 years of extensive technical experience in variety of application development or package software implementations (i.e. building/maintaining data pipelines in cloud environments like Google Cloud Platform, Azure or AWS)
• Proven experience of ongoing education in regard to technology trends within software development and support
• Proven experience with multiple development and support methodologies (Agile, DevOps, Waterfall)
• Must be eligible to work in the United States without need for work visa or residency sponsorship

Required Tech

• 5+ years of Python, SQL, and Java experience and 1+ year of GCP/Cloud experience as a developer.
• Note: Java is the biggest gap on the team right now and we'd like this person to be strong in Java.

Nice to have Tech

• GCP Experience with composer (airflow), google data flow (apache beam), and operators inside of data flow that interact with Big Query
• Container technology (Docker)
• Kubernetes
• Understands overall data warehousing concepts but primarily has a developer background

Must Haves:

• 5+ years' experience of Python, SQL, and Java
• Google Cloud Platform or other cloud experience
• 5+ years' experience in data warehousing

Nice to have They work in a linux environment so that would be ideal
Knowledge of distributive computing
Preference is GCP if no GCP they need AWS of Snowflake OR come from Azure and have used data lake stack
Required Skills : 5+ years experience of Python, SQL, and Java Google Cloud Platform or other cloud experience 5+ years experience in data warehousing
Basic Qualification :
Additional Skills : remote
Background Check :Yes
Drug Screen :Yes
Notes :
Selling points for candidate :remote
Project Verification Info :
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :No
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship :Yes
Interview times set :Yes
Type of project evelopment/Engineering
Master Job Title ev: Java
Branch Code :Minneapolis