Data Engineer (Contract)

Time zones: SBT (UTC +11), GMT (UTC +0), CET (UTC +1), EET (UTC +2), MSK (UTC +3)

What you’ll do
This is an initial 3-month contract, that could extend into a full-time role, with the following Role Responsibilities:
Iterate, build, and implement our data model, data warehousing, and data integration architecture using AWS services
Build solutions that ingest data from source and partner systems into the zero44 data infrastructure, where the data is transformed, intelligently curated and made available for consumption by downstream operational and analytical processes
You integrate data from source systems using common ETL tools or programming languages (e.g. Ruby, Python, Scala, AWS Data Pipeline, etc.)
You develop tailor-made strategies, concepts and solutions for the efficient handling of our growing amounts of data
Work iteratively with our data scientist to build up fact tables (e.g. container ship movements), dimension tables (e.g. weather data), ETL processes, and build the data catalog
Create high quality code that can effectively process large volumes of data at scale.
About you
Technical Skills & Experience
Experience designing, building and maintaining data architecture and warehousing using AWS services
Experience with data integration, e.g., AWS Glue
Experience managing AWS resources using Terraform
Experience in Data engineering and infrastructure work for analytical and machine learning processes
Experience with ETL tooling, migrating ETL code from one technology to another will be a benefit
Experience with Data visualisation / dashboarding tools as QA/QC data processes
Experience in Analytics programming languages R and Python
Nice to have: Experience with Ruby, as the current data import infra is written in Ruby
Personality
You can handle ambiguity, and can push projects forward even when there is not a clear best path
You see things through from start to finish
You can manage yourself, but you also work well with others.
A good sense of humour and a great team player with strong team ethos.
Fluent English and an excellent communicator, able to communicate with technical and non-technical colleagues alike
How we work
Our weekly sprint planning call is our only regular meeting
For complex features, write a design doc before coding
All code goes through code review, reviews are split out evenly across the team
We use Tuple for pair programming