Data Engineer

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Detail information about job Data Engineer. Terms and conditions vacancy

• Competitive Salary
• Parramatta Location
• Global Organization

About Baycorp:

Baycorp is a leading player in the market and aspires to be the leading debt resolution specialist in Australia and New Zealand. We partner with our clients and thier customers to deliver intelligent strategies for the successful resolution of debt. We have 4 operations centres across the Asia Pacific region with over 600 staff members.

A career at Baycorp is an opportunity to join an energetic workplace that provides multiple platforms for development and growth.

About the role:

We are looking for a savvy Data Engineer to join our growing team of analytics experts. The hire will be responsible for expanding and optimizing our data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross functional teams. The ideal candidate is an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up. The Data Engineer will support our data analysts and will ensure optimal data delivery architecture is consistent throughout ongoing projects. They must be self-directed. The right candidate will be excited by the prospect of optimizing or even re-designing our company’s data architecture to support our next generation of products and data initiatives. You should also be willing to conduct workshops and training sessions for the data scientists on AWS, big data tools and Python.

Responsibilities for Data Engineer:

• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture,
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL
• Establish the infrastructure extraction, transformation, and loading of data for ‘big data’ technologies.
• Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into \ operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
• Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.
• Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.

About You:

• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
• Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets.
• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.
• A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• We are looking for a candidate with 5+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role, who has attained a Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field. They should also have experience using the following software/tools:
• Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
• Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
• Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift
• Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++,Scala etc

On offer is a 6 month fixed term contract role working in our Parramatta office.

To find out more about Baycorp please visit: www.baycorp.com.au