Data Engineer - 1 Year Fellowship Program
Job No:
155548
Location:
New Castle County, Delaware
- Use your skills and experience for social good
- Earn $70,000 per year plus a great host of benefits
- Join an innovative, like-minded team that focuses on your personal growth and accelerating your career!
About Us
Tech Impact's Data Innovation Lab (Tech Impact) exists to engage local and global organizations in an ongoing conversation around the use of advanced data analytics and artificial intelligence to fast-forward research ideas out of the lab and into the marketplace.
Our mission is to develop novel data and analytics approaches that can disrupt the status quo and fundamentally alter a current issue or problem. Using best practices, diverse industry experience, access to technical and scientific talent, and core technologies, the lab will solve community-based issues while attracting national talent to the region and providing work for the technical and innovative talent of Delaware.
For more information, visit our website.
About the Opportunity
Tech Impact is looking for Data Engineers to join our team for a 1-year Fellowship Program, in New Castle County, Delaware. The Fellowship Program will run from August 2022 to August 2023 and is a hybrid role. The successful candidate will have to have a residence or establish a residence in Delaware.
The Fellowship is intended for technologists with a deep technical skill set and a strong desire to serve their communities. As a Data Engineer, you will work with our partners to develop and deploy production-grade solutions to social good problems. You will be expected to collaborate across system integration projects, ideally creating solutions that involve ETL/ELT and data modelling and implementing data warehouses that support our data narrative builds aiming to advance our mission. Your work will directly lead to improving the lives of people in communities in Delaware and beyond.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Consulting clients/stakeholders on the design and build of data warehouses
- Serving as our primary delivery resource for designing and building data warehouses
- Designing, building, and deploying ETL/ELT solutions across different projects among our team
- Creating and managing Cloud services (Azure, AWS) to support all aspects of our tech products, including their delivery
- Organizing and communicating personalized findings to clients and stakeholders
- As part of the broader data team, proposing innovative solutions to address sourcing and bridging data/data knowledge gaps among our team
- Creating and developing new ways of applying and optimizing analytics solutions to increase their value and contribution
- Contributing to innovative projects, specifically to idea generation, idea incubation, and experimentation
- Serving as a liaison between government, corporate, community, and non-profit teams to effectively source and represent data
- When relevant, supporting authorship of academic papers, presentations, white papers, and other publications by conducting analyses and producing visualizations.
More About You
Our preferred candidate has a Master's degree in mathematics, computer science, psychology, public health, or another related quantitative field. However, undergraduates or individuals who have relevant training will also be considered.
In addition, we require strong skills, experience, and knowledge in the following:
- Experience in system integration projects, ideally with the creation of solutions that involve ETL/ELT and data modeling
- Production-level SQL and Python/R coding skills
- Experience implementing modern data pipelines (batch, real-time) using cloud-based services or enterprise-grade data integration tools/platforms (Informatica, Talend, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, etc.)
- Experience with implementing and managing, Cloud-based data services
- Experience with DevOps and CI/CD processes
- Experience handling confidential data and information with integrity in a shared cloud environment
- Proven ability to understand business processes in detail both at global and county/state levels and translate these into building data narratives for social good
- Excellent organizational skills, with the ability to navigate organizing/prioritizing work efficiently and effectively
- implementing data warehouses that support interactive dashboards/data visualizations would be an asset
- Production-level experience with relational (SQL Server, Oracle) and columnar databases (Synapse, RedShift, Snowflake, Big Query) would be an asset
- Experience with Agile or Scrum methodologies would be an asset
About the Benefits
In exchange for your hard work and dedication, you will receive a salary of $70,000 per year plus a great host of benefits, including:
- Hybrid workplace (60% remote)
- Medical, dental, vision health benefits - 90% cost paid by Tech Impact
- Wellness card that pays your co-pays
- Accidental death and life insurance plan
- 401K plan
- 15 days paid time off
- Job placement upon completion of the 1-Year Fellowship
And that's not all! You will be welcomed into an innovative and supportive environment. If you think you've got the skills to take on this rewarding and challenging role, apply today!