Data Infrastructure Engineer
Job Details
Data Infrastructure Engineer
Job ID: 300418
Location: Kennesaw, Georgia
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
About Us
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Location
(Primary Location for Job Responsibilities) Our Kennesaw campus is located at 1000 Chastain Road NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144. Our Marietta campus is located at 1100 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060.
Job Summary
Focuses on building and maintaining the data infrastructure including the extraction, loading, and staging of data from various data sources, both on-premises or in the cloud. Ensures the seamless and secure transfer of data, optimizing for performance, integration and reliability to enable subsequent data transformation and modeling processes for enterprise reporting and analytics.
Responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develops, tests, and implements data pipelines to efficiently, securely, and reliably ingest data from various data sources into the enterprise data lake or data warehouse
- Collaborates with data architects and data source SMEs to understand requirements and designs data pipelines accordingly
- Develops and maintains robust data integrity checks, ensuring data accuracy, timeliness, and consistency
- Utilizes cloud tools and custom scripts for validation, set up automated anomaly detection, and collaborates with stakeholders to align quality checks with data requirements
- Enables integration of data from various data sources, such as databases, cloud services and APIs, to facilitate seamless data flow for enterprise and self-service reporting and analytics
- Monitors and optimizes data pipelines, identifies and troubleshoots issues using tools such as Azure Monitor or similar system
- Implements automated alerts and collaborates with architects to adopt best practices in pipeline design for enhanced performance
- Maintains compliance with data security policies and regulations in the data infrastructure
- Implements encryption, manage access controls, conduct security audits, and stay updated with security best practices to safeguard data integrity and privacy
- Manages the storage structure within the data lake or data warehouse, optimizing resource utilization and ensuring efficient integration with data transformation and modeling processes
- Supports senior technical staff in project planning and the development of standard operating procedures
- Contributes to the establishment of best practices, ensuring project alignment with technical standards and organizational goals
- Creates and regularly updates technical documentation for data pipeline processes
- Ensures clear, comprehensive, and accessible documentation is available, covering all aspects of pipeline design, operation, and maintenance
Required Qualifications
Educational Requirements
High school diploma or equivalent
Required Experience
Five (5) years of related IT experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Preferred Educational Qualifications
An undergraduate or advanced degree from an accredited institution of higher education in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration or related field
Preferred Experience
Experience working with reporting tools such as Power BI, Tableau, etc.
Previous work experience in Higher Education
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