Senior Data Engineer

Pay 70-75 / hour W2. Our company offers our consultants a suite of benefits after a qualification period including health, vision, dental, life and disability insurance.

This is an onsite role in Omaha, NE

W2 Candidates only. C2C is not possible for this role under any circumstances.

• 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 chunks and assign tasks to team members for delivery.
• Ensure high data quality standards and maintain the accuracy and reliability of data.
• Create and manage data models, and validate 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 Dev Ops 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.

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university preferred or 5+ years of experience in an IT data-related role.
• 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 Dev Ops 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.

The Fountain Group is a nationwide staffing firm with over 80 Fortune 100-500 clients. Since 2001, TFG has maintained a consistent standard of excellence, and our work is broadly recognized every year through numerous industry performance awards. Our success is a team effort.