Data Engineer Job Chicago area,Illinois USA,IT/Tech

Here’s a summary of the role:

The Data Enablement Team is responsible for building and maintaining the foundational data infrastructure that powers decision-making across the company. We focus on the ingestion, transformation, and modeling of data. Our goal is to ensure that our data is clean, reliable, and accessible through our centralized data warehouse.

By delivering well-structured and trusted datasets, we enable downstream teams such as product, finance, and marketing to own their analytics and reporting independently. We use modern tools like Snowflake, dbt, and Python to ensure our data platform is scalable, efficient, and aligned with business needs.

Those in the Data Engineer role are expected to be experienced software engineers with a specialization in data centric programming and tools. The Data Engineer should be comfortable working with a wide variety of data systems, and be able to transform raw datasets into something useful for analysts and data scientists.

A successful member of the data engineering team should stay up to date and knowledgeable about the industry’s newest tools and best practices.

Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff):

Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines using Python and Airflow.
Collaborate with Analytics Engineers and other team members to deliver clean, well-modeled data to downstream users.
Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure data pipeline reliability and performance.
Ensure data quality and integrity through validation frameworks and testing.
Optimize performance and cost-efficiency of cloud-based data systems.
Contribute to architectural decisions around data storage, workflow orchestration, and infrastructure as code.
Document data pipelines and processes

These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
Proven years of experience in a Data Engineering or Software Engineering role
Very good knowledge of Python and experience with SQL
Experience with Kubernetes and containerization
Experience with Airflow or similar process orchestration tool
Familiarity with modern data file formats (Parquet, ORC, JSON)
Experience with data architecture, modelling, and pipelines in an enterprise data warehouse (Snowflake, Redshift, Big Query)
Experience with AWS products (S3, Lambda, Athena)
Ability to work both independently and in a team-oriented environment
Strong analytical skills with a critical thinking attitude.
Engage in a highly collaborative environment, working closely with data analysts and other team members.
Experience firsthand the impact of your contributions on the overall success of the team and organization.
Demonstrable experience as a software or data engineer, demonstrating a good understanding of data architecture and engineering principles.
You have great communication skills both written and verbal.
You embrace the You Gov values

It would be great if you had these to, but we’ll support you if you don’t:

Experience with a data transformation tool such as DBT
Experience with No

SQL and Graph Database technologies
Familiarity with data reporting software (Power BI, Tableau, Apache Superset)
Experience with R

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