Data Engineer

Delta Defense

$88K — $105K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or equivalent required; associate or bachelor's degree in a related field preferred.
  • 2-5 years experience in data engineering or business intelligence roles.
  • 3-5 years of SQL experience required.
  • Familiarity with AWS cloud technologies like S3 and EMR preferred.
  • 1+ years experience in Agile Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
  • 1+ years of experience with dbt preferred.
  • Proficiency in Python or other scripting languages preferred.
  • Strong understanding of ETL/ELT methodologies and analytical modeling techniques.

Responsibilities

  • Create clean, tested, reusable datasets for analysis from complex data systems.
  • Contribute to data transformation standards and ensure compliance with format and attribute requirements.
  • Enhance data profiling methodologies to maintain data quality standards.
  • Implement engineering best practices for CI/CD, unit testing, and performance optimization.
  • Coordinate with the Data Architecture team to ensure data model consistency and quality.
  • Utilize existing data infrastructure to manage data requests and perform data cleansing tasks.
  • Analyze data to identify anomalies, trends, and correlations.
  • Troubleshoot issues and devise solutions to resolve data-related challenges.

Benefits

  • Hybrid flexibility for working arrangements, with an emphasis on onsite presence in West Bend, WI.
  • Opportunity to work with experienced teams in an organization focused on data-driven decision making.
  • Involvement in developing industry-standard practices regarding data quality and governance.
Full Job Description
Our Data Engineers help Delta Defense turn complex data into clear, actionable insights that support smarter business decisions. This hands-on role builds reliable data solutions, supports our Enterprise Data Warehouse, and helps make KPIs, metrics, and reporting more accessible across the business.Essentials Duties & Responsibilities:
  • Work within systems and infrastructures that collect and process data in order to create clean, tested, and reusable datasets ready for analysis.
  • Contribute to established standards for performing data transformations and ensure adherence of the rules and requirements for the formats and attributes of data.
  • Support standards around data quality by maintaining and enhancing data profiling methodologies.
  • Maintain engineering best practices around CI/CD, unit testing, performance testing and optimization.
  • Partner directly with the Data Architecture team to ensure the quality and consistency of the data model.
  • Leverage existing data infrastructure to fulfill all data-related requests, perform necessary data housekeeping, data cleansing, normalization, hashing, and implementation of required data model changes.
  • Analyze data to spot anomalies, trends and correlate similar data sets.
  • Troubleshoots problems, identifies possible solutions, and resolves accordingly.
  • Develop a strong understanding and awareness of best practices related to PII, adherence to Risk policies and standards as set forth by the organization.
  • All other duties as assigned

Required Experience & Education:
  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • Associate or bachelor's degree preferred in Computer Science, Information Management, Data Science/Analytics, statistics, or equivalent relevant experience
  • 2-5 years of experience in data engineering or business intelligence roles
  • 3-5 years of SQL experience
  • Ability to work efficiently within AWS cloud technologies such as S3, EMR preferred
  • 1+ years experience in Agile SDLC
  • 1+ years dbt experience preferred
  • Solid understanding of ETL/ELT methodologies
  • Proficiency with Python and scripting languages preferred
  • Solid understanding of industry standard analytical modeling techniques
  • Demonstrates the Core Values of Delta Defense, LLC

Working conditions
  • This position is located at our HQ in West Bend, WI. While we do have some Hybrid flexibility, the goal is to have this person onsite.
  • We do not currently or in the future provide sponsorship for this role.

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at Delta Defense

More Information Technology Jobs

Find similar Data Engineer jobs: