Contractor: Lead Data Engineering Services

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Edtech
Meaningful classroom learning for every student.
The Role

Seeking to hire a Contractor based out of Mexico or Argentina for Lead-Level Data Engineering Services.

Scope of Services:

  • As a Contractor you will work alongside app developers and data stakeholders to create data system changes and to respond to data inquires
  • You will Lead initiatives and problem definition scoping, design, and planning through epics and blueprints. 
  • With your deep domain knowledge and radiation of that knowledge you will develop documentation, technical presentation, discussion, and incident reviews. 
  • You will build and maintain data pipelines and DAG tooling 
  • You will establish and maintain a data catalog with business-related metadata

Skills & Experience:

  • Mastered proficiency in SQL, Python, and relational datastores (columnar and row databases)
  • Proficiency in building and maintaining data pipelines and DAG tooling (Dagster, Airflow, etc)
  • Advanced experience with event-based pipelines and CDC tooling
  • Advanced experience in managing large-scale data migrations in relational datastores
  • Advanced experience in optimizing SQL query performance
  • Advanced experience with data testing strategies to ensure resulting datastores are aligned with expected business logic
  • Experience with DBT orchestration and best practices
  • Experience with enabling monitoring, health checks and alerting on data systems and pipelines
  • Experience establishing and maintaining a data catalog with business-related metadata
  • Experience building tools and automation to run data infrastructure
  • Experience with writing and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure for data pipelines (AWS, GCP and Terraform) is a plus
  • Experience in document, graph or schema-less datastores is a plus

Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits. 

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HQ: New York, New York
476 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

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We are on a mission to deliver meaningful classroom learning for every student. We’re an edtech company that brings together digital content with integrated assessments and insights. The result is more engaged readers—and engaged readers are better learners.

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