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Data Engineer

Minnesota - Developer

Hollstadt Overview

Hollstadt Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm dedicated to placing professionals at engagements where they will excel. When you work with us, you'll work with a refreshingly real company led and staffed by seasoned experts who are also down-to-earth, good people. We're committed to treating you with respect and helping you achieve your career aspirations.

Since 1990, Hollstadt has been a trusted partner to more than 150 domestic and global companies and has successfully completed over 3,000 projects. Our continued growth has created challenging and rewarding opportunities for accomplished IT and Business Consultants. Hollstadt Consulting is an equal opportunity employer including disability/veteran.

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Job Description

Role: Data Engineer

Location: Remote

Duration: 1 year

Rate: $52.85/hour W2


Job Summary:

Data Engineer gains access to data across the organization and provides ongoing analysis of the data by monitoring, profiling and analyzing databases. Requires a mix of functional, data and technical skills. The right candidate must be able to understand business requirements, translate them into information needs and implement those requirements using data available. The hire will be responsible for expanding and optimizing data architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross functional teams. The ideal candidate is an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems. The Data Engineer will support our software developers, database architects, and data analysts and data scientists on data initiatives and will ensure optimal data delivery architecture is consistent throughout ongoing projects.


Job Responsibilities:

  • Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
  • Strong knowledge of SQL required. Ability to identify sets and subsets of information across multiple joins or unions of tables is preferred in addition to writing and troubleshooting SQL queries for data mining
  • Perform complex data analysis and investigation for customer requests to explain results and to make appropriate recommendations.
  • Strong understanding of data modeling concepts
  • Problem solver with the initiative to think critically to identify improvement opportunities (error detection, error correction, root cause analysis)
  • Understand ETL that will aid in verification and testing of data
  • Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.
  • A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.
  • Analyze business objectives and develop data solutions to meet customer needs.
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively participate in multiple, concurrent projects
  • Improve and customize current data solutions to meet business functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Research new and existing data sources in order to contribute to new development, improve data management processes, and make recommendations for data quality initiatives.
  • Perform periodic data quality reviews for internal and external data.
  • Ensure timely resolution of queries and data issues.
  • Look for new ways to find and collect data by researching potential new sources of information.
  • Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.

Required Skills & Experience:

  • Demonstrated ability to analyze and profile data as a means to address various business problems through leveraging advanced data modeling, source system databases, or data mining techniques.
  • May provide consultative services to departments/divisions and committees.
  • Demonstrated application of several problem-solving methodologies, planning techniques, continuous improvement methods, and analytical tools and methodologies (e.g. data analysis, data profiling, modeling, etc.).
  • Incumbent must have ability to manage a varied workload of projects with multiple priorities and stay current on healthcare trends and enterprise changes.
  • Interpersonal skills and time management skills.
  • Requires strong analytical skills and the ability to identify and recommend solutions, advanced computer application skills and a commitment to customer service.
  • Experience with data analysis, quality, and profiling; including data exploration tools including but not limited to Rapid SQL, AQT, Information Analyzer, and Informatics.

Required Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering from an accredited University or College.
  • OR
  • Associate's degree in Computer Science or Engineering from an accredited University or College with two (2) years of experience.

Required Skills:

  • PYTHON
  • SQL
  • GCP

Additional Skills:

  • TERRAFORM

Languages:

  • English (Read, Write, Speak)

Required Skills & Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the design, configuration, and support of data, analytics, and AI environments across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure, including Microsoft Fabric
  • Build and maintain data pipelines to ingest, cleanse, transform, and curate structured and unstructured data
  • Support batch and near–real-time data ingestion and transformation workflows
  • Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform) to help automate cloud environment provisioning and configuration
  • Configure and support cloud services related to data ingestion, integration, messaging, CI/CD, and data processing
  • Assist with data modeling and performance optimization in cloud data warehouses (e.g., partitioning and clustering in BigQuery)
  • Support the setup and tuning of operational databases or data-serving layers based on defined use cases
  • Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting for data pipelines and platforms
  • Write and maintain data transformations using SQL and Python
  • Collaborate with engineers, analysts, and product teams in an iterative, product-focused environment


Benefits + Perks

Comprehensive Benefit Plan

Hollstadt offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, and retirement benefits to eligible employees. With three different medical plans to choose from, you can enroll in the coverage you need from individual to family, or anywhere in between!

Remarketing Process

Hollstadt is based on retention and relationships. We get to know your strengths and career wishes throughout your assignment and then start remarket discussions 6-8 weeks prior to your end date. By being proactive, we are able to keep your down time between assignments as short as possible, unless you choose otherwise.

Professional Development

Hollstadt offers on-demand training through our consultant portal. Trainings give our consultants the continuing education they need to excel on their projects. Many of our courses apply towards continuing education credits and we have an entire training hub dedicated to upskilling in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

401k + Matching

One popular benefit is our 401(k) match on the first 4% of your contributions. Hollstadt wants to help you reach your long-term financial goals and understands that planning for your future is critical. Consultants also have access to support from a Financial Advisor.

Bonus Opportunities

We appreciate and reward loyalty. Join Hollstadt, stay for 5 years, and we’ll give you a $5,000 Longevity Award bonus! Additionally, we know great talent knows other great talent. If you are on contract with Hollstadt and refer one of your connections who gets placed, we’ll pay you $1,000!

Ongoing Support & Networking

We have made a significant investment in building a support program for our consultant team - so you never have to feel like you are going it alone. We also have a Consultant Coach program which acts like a 'work buddy' to provide a safe ear for questions or concerns at your client site.