Data Engineering Contractor

Newsela is seeking to hire a Contractor based out of Latin America for Mid-Level Data Engineering Services.

Scope of Services:

• This Contractor will develop a thorough understanding of the various data sources, data pipelines, and enterprise data warehouse models.
• Play a crucial role as we assess the existing tools and processes and help team with critical migrations like prefect 1 to prefect 2 as well as incorporating tools like Dbt to analytics engineering cycle.
• Help the team rapidly meet the business needs by connecting new data sources as needed as well as building new data warehouse models
• Maintain reliable data and analytics platform by bringing in best practices and tools for data quality checks, monitoring as well as helping troubleshoot and address production issues.

Skills & Experience:

• 2+ years of experience in data engineering.
• Proficient in Python programming and hands-on experience building ETL/ELT pipelines
• Experience using orchestration tools like Prefect, Airflow etc.
• Working experience with a column store Analytical Datastores like Snowflake/Redshift/Bigquery etc.
• Hands-on experience in data modeling; including strong knowledge of SQLExperience with source control systems like GitHub.Detail-oriented, and take pride in the quality of your work
• Experience working with a modern cloud native data stack in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with Dbt is a plus
• Experience with BI tools like Tableau is a plus
• Experience with a public cloud preferably AWS is a plus

Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits.