Data Engineer III

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Data Engineer III

Seattle, WA / Rocket City, FL / Huntsville, AL

Contract Position

Responsibilities :

Drive the practice of federating data ingestion, curation, and hydrating the ontology within our Palantir Foundry platform.

Guide the definition of common standards for data pipelines, ensuring high data quality, robust Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and precise data classification.

Create patterns and standards for Change Data Capture (CDC), incremental loads, and streaming data within the platform.

Lead the design and implementation of DevOps practices, data platform monitoring, and observability to ensure operational excellence and high availability of data services.

Need to solution & implement complex data pipelines orchestration for a knowledge graph build.

• Federate Data Ingestion and Curation : Lead the efforts to streamline data ingestion and curation processes, ensuring efficient and scalable data handling within the Palantir Foundry platform.
• Hydrate Ontology : Spearhead the development and maintenance of the ontology, facilitating a structured and intuitive understanding of the data landscape.
• Define Data Pipeline Standards : Establish common standards for data pipelines, focusing on data quality, RBAC, and data classification to maintain integrity and security.
• Develop Data Patterns and Standards : Create and implement patterns and standards for CDC, incremental loads, and real-time data streaming, enhancing the platform's responsiveness and flexibility.
• Lead Ontology Build : Guide the construction of the ontology, ensuring it meets the complex needs of aerospace manufacturing data.
• Mentor Data Engineers : Provide leadership and mentorship to other data engineers, promoting the adoption of standards, patterns, and DataOps practices for federating data pipeline work across the enterprise.
• Accelerate Delivery and Self-Service : Drive the acceleration of data pipeline delivery and promote data self-service consumption, enabling faster decision-making and innovation.
• DevOps Practices : Design and implement DevOps practices for data operations, ensuring continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated testing are at the core of the data engineering workflow.
• Monitoring and Observability : Establish comprehensive monitoring and observability frameworks for the data platform, enabling proactive issue detection and resolution to maintain high service availability.

Qualifications :

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.
• 5-8 years required in the data engineering & data management with a strong focus on data platforms like Databricks, Snowflake or Palantir Foundry
• Extensive knowledge of data ingestion, ETL processes, and data modeling.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work with complex data integration challenges.
• Experience with data reconciliation, data pipeline & data monitoring, and performance optimization.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Leadership experience and the ability to mentor junior engineers.
• Prior experience in aerospace manufacturing or a related industry is a plus
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion

Technology Stack Experience :

Programming Languages - Python, PySpark, Java, SQLDatabases - Postgres, OracleCloud Services AWS, Azure, GCP (storage, compute, databases, catalogs, streaming, replication, Queueing & Notification, Logging & Monitoring service) any one of the cloud platforms is good but AWS is preferred.

Big Data FrameworksMetadata Catalogs DataHub, Informatica, Collibra (experience in any one is good)Data Quality Platforms Anomolo, Informatica, BigEye (experience in any one is good)Event Platforms Kafka, MSKData Platforms Palantir Foundry, Databricks, Snowflake (experience in any one is good but Foundry experience will be a bonus)

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Still have questions? Reach out to

Josh - (phone) 256-529-4547 (email)

What to Expect

• Applicants selected for employment will be required to pass a pre-employment drug screening and background investigation which may include education, criminal and work history verifications.
• Accepted applicants will have the opportunity to be eligible for benefits, including medical and supplemental insurance and a 401K.

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