Data Engineer
ABOUT SPARKLINE:
At Sparkline, we’re not interested in being ‘the smartest guy in the room’! We want to be a trusted partner, strategic asset and integral part of our client’s business. We are a small team and at our strongest when we leverage each other’s strengths. We roll up our sleeves and move at lightning pace to get the job done!
OUR DNA:
Passion for digital and data, and the value it brings to both consumers and businesses
Dedication to become a value based partner, delivering above and beyond client expectations
Humility to work integrity, good intent and transparency
Curiosity to explore the possibilities and the opportunities from the information you are given
Creativity to see beyond the answer and use insights to effectively reach potential customers
Fail Fast, Learn Faster it’s about progress not perfection
Entrepreneurial in attitude and action, effortlessly innovating and adapting
Embrace Change - ‘It’s not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive, but those that can best manage change’....that’s Charles Darwin by the way!
THE ROLE:
You will work with our valued client base and peers across the Regional team base to help to design, implement, and manage data pipelines from end-to-end. You will also work with the Product Development team to provide ongoing support, consultancy and deliver against a product roadmap of which the team will be taking to market for new Business Development opportunities. To that end, this is a role which is pivotal to client and project delivery for existing accounts but also a growth role which will make a sizable business impact with the right talent.
This will include:
- Gather and process raw data at scale (including writing ETL scripts, scraping webpages, calling APIs, writing SQL queries, etc.).
- Explain in layman terms how the data flows between processes and systems.
- Work closely with clients' engineering teams to integrate your innovations and algorithms into their production systems.
- Take ownership of systems' up-time, including resolving application, performance, and systems incidents and errors as quickly as possible.
- Support business decisions with ad hoc analysis as needed.
THE PERSON
You should be a creative problem solver, resourceful in getting things done, and productive when working independently or collaboratively. You should also have the ability to undertake new initiatives to deliver the best work. You will be hands on and technically savvy and have the passion to support varied points of contact internally and externally to achieve success through effective delivery.
You will have a passion for data, for automation for streamlining and ensuring efficiency in data processes. You will, ideally, be an innovative thinker with the ability and capacity to bring new ideas to the team and work well with your close knit delivery team members and all fellow sparks.
YOU WILL BRING
- 3-5 years of experience in data application development, including building machine learning projects from start to end.
- Google Cloud, especially with Kubernetes, BigQuery and other data analytics services provided by Google Cloud.
- Python: 3 years, especially with libraries like numpy, scikit, Flask and pandas.
- Development tools and frameworks: Docker, Node.js + Gulp, D3.js.
Required: Please provide publicly accessible links to your sample code of your data analytics and machine learning applications.
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