We are looking for a talented Data Engineer with big data processing experience to join our Agile development team in building products to support Merkle's people based marketing vision using the latest data and cloud technologies. You will work with a team of passionate, experienced, nimble, and goal-oriented engineers that are solving complex problems and critical data analysis and reporting features. You will embrace change, and rapidly build, test, and scale solutions that drive incremental business value for our customers and partners. We're looking for smart, enthusiastic, driven individuals who are eager to contribute to our world class solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
Design, implement, and deploy enterprise data solutions using cutting-edge cloud-based technologies
Follow Agile methodologies to release iterative feature sets very rapidly
Research and introduce new solutions and technologies to the project and stakeholders.
Coordinate with other teams as part of a larger data-sharing system
Employ software development best practices such as automated testing, peer code reviews, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
Translate business requirements and develop technical specifications
Communicate clearly and document processes
Perform quality assurance and testing of your work
Contribute to a collaborative, positive, stimulating, and enjoyable environment for your development team
Must be authorized to work for our company in the United States now and in the future.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent experience
Must have 2+ years of work experience with Python/JavaScript
Strong database fundamentals including SQL, relational and non-relational data models and schema designs, and understanding of database performance implications
Understanding of cloud base technologies (AWS, GCP or Azure, AWS preferred)
Experience leveraging automated tests for code validation
Experience building and deploying products using continuous integration principles
Working knowledge of software engineering and development methodologies, techniques, and tools, including Issue Tracking (like JIRA), code repositories (like Git, Bitbucket) and the Software Development Lifecycle
Desired Skills:
Understanding of "Big Data" ETL methodologies and managing large scale data sets
Experience with Snowflake data warehouse technology
Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
Experience with AWS technologies (such as S3, EC2, RDS, EMR, Lambda or SNS/SQS)
Experience with data processing workflow systems (Apache Nifi, Talend or Airflow)
Experience of creating reports, dashboards and visualizations (Tableau preferred)
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Merkle fosters a diverse environment that encourages original thinking about our business and empowers us to communicate with a global world of customers. We embrace differences of opinion and diversity of thought as they help us challenge and refine our solutions. Merkle, as a best-in-class marketing agency, welcomes big ideas, and believes they can come from anywhere.
