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As a Data Engineer, you will work alongside data scientists and engineers, to build a data platform on AWS to ingest data from external sources and perform ETL tasks. The role requires you to have experience working with large datasets with complex schemas, a can-do approach towards automation, with an emphasis on the implementation of best practice cloud security principles. Our culture is inclusive and we have a healthy work life balance. If you're passionate about problem solving, enjoy continuous learning, like building new things; we want to hear from you!
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product owners to understand requirements and design new components
- Collaborate in cross-functional teams to implement, test and deploy features.
- Perform code reviews
- Build and maintain development environments and CI/CD workflows.
Preferred Qualifications
- BS or MS in Computer Science.
- 3+ years with mainstream programming languages (Python, C++, C, Java, etc.).
- Strong knowledge of programming concepts and paradigms.
- Basic understanding of data lakes / data warehousing.
- Experience with SQL and relational database systems.
- Experience writing automated tests.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Experience working in Cloud environments.
- Experience working in an agile environment.
- Experience with popular AWS services (S3, RDS, EC2, etc.).
- Experience with popular developer tools (Git, Docker, Github/Gitlab).
- Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow.
- Familiarity with big data processing tools such as Spark, EMR, Presto.
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Nielsen shapes the world’s media and content as a global leader in audience insights, data and analytics. Through our understanding of people and their behaviors across all channels and platforms, we empower our clients with independent and actionable intelligence so they can connect and engage with their audiences—now and into the future.
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