CANA Data Engineer
CANA is seeking a talented Data Engineer! Bottom line, why work at CANA? We have a dynamic, open, small business culture enhanced by the fact we have always been a fully virtual company. Our team members work from anywhere with connectivity and with flexible hours. In addition to pay and benefits, we actively support continuing education, professional memberships, independent research activities and sabbatical opportunities, community service, and a well-balanced life. We provide a diverse spectrum of commercial, federal, and non-profit clients with operations planning, analytics, logistics and supply chain support, program management, and technical data development.
Position Overview
We’re looking for an experienced data pipeline builder and wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up. The CANA Data Engineer will build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of large, disconnected data sources.
The CANA Data Engineer will build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management; identify, design, and implement internal process improvements.
The position requires a graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, or another quantitative field. Specific skills include knowledge and experience with, as examples: data tools (Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka); relational SQL and NoSQL databases (Postgres and Cassandra); data pipeline and workflow management tools (Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow); AWS cloud services (EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift); stream-processing systems (Storm, Spark-Streaming); object-oriented/object function scripting languages (Python, Java, C++, Scala); and message queuing and stream processing. If you are interested in learning more about the position, connect with me!
Cherish Joostberns
CANA Resource Lead