Data Engineer / AWS Developer
Arlington, VA

Job Description

FI Consulting is seeking a full-time Data Engineer / AWS Developer based out of our Arlington, VA Headquarters. FI develops, deploys and maintains a wide variety of applications for its commercial and government clients. This position supports the full lifecycle of development and requires a client-facing, consultative approach to solutions delivery.

This is a Senior Data Engineer position for building data storage platforms from ground up. The ideal candidate has a passion for data analysis, technology and helping people leverage the technology to transform their business processes and analytics. As a Data Engineer, you will be part of a team responsible for supporting a wide range of internal customers. You will draw on all the skills in your toolkit to analyze, design, and develop data storage and data analytic solutions using data lake patterns, that help our customers run more effective operations and make better business decisions.

Strategy for Development and Implementation as below:

* Develop data filtering, transformational and loading requirements
* Define and execute ETLs using Apache Sparks on Hadoop among other Data technologies
* Determine appropriate translations and validations between source data and target databases
* Implement business logic to cleanse & transform data
* Design and implement appropriate error handling procedures
* Develop project, documentation and storage standards in conjunction with data architects
* Monitor performance, troubleshoot and tune ETL processes as appropriate using tools like in the AWS ecosystem.
* Create and automate ETL mappings to consume loan level data source applications to target applications
* Execution of end to end implementation of underlying data ingestion workflow.



Required Skills

* At least 5 years of experience developing in Java, Python
* Bachelor's degree with equivalent work experience in statistics, data science or a related field.
* Experience working with different Databases and understanding of data concepts (including data warehousing, data lake patterns, structured and unstructured data)
* 3+ years' experience of Data Storage/Hadoop platform implementation, including 3+ years of hands-on experience in implementation and performance tuning Hadoop/Spark implementations.
* Implementation and tuning experience specifically using Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR).
* Implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing, enterprise environments.
* Experience writing automated unit, integration, regression, performance and acceptance tests
* Solid understanding of software design principles



Preferred Skills

* Understanding of Apache Hadoop and the Hadoop ecosystem. Experience with one or more relevant tools (Sqoop, Flume, Kafka, Oozie, Hue, Zookeeper, HCatalog, Solr, Avro).
* Deep knowledge on Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) and distributed processing techniques such as Map-Reduce
* Experience with Columnar databases like Snowflake, Redshift
* Experience in building and deploying applications in AWS (EC2, S3, Hive, Glue, EMR, RDS, ELB, Lambda, etc.)
* Experience with building production web services
* Experience with cloud computing and storage services
* Knowledge of Mortgage industry

Who We Are: FI Consulting is a 65-person professional services firm that helps government and commercial financial institutions solve hard problems in data, analytics, modeling, and technology. Our professionals are specialists with expertise across a range of fields, for example:

* Financial and economic modeling
* Data analytics & visualization
* Financial products and markets
* Economics and statistics
* Business process management and re-engineering

Our Company Values & Operates on:

* A Commitment to Creating Value for our Clients and our Employees
* A Flat Management Structure that is Still Led by one of the Original Founders
* An Emphasis on Teamwork and Cooperation
* Employee Development and Career Growth
* Continuous Improvement
* An Entrepreneurial Culture that Rewards Finding, Developing, and Owning Business

What its really like to Work for Us:

You will work with a team of smart, talented people in a culture that is simultaneously driven, collegial, and supportive. We set high expectations for employees in the areas of project delivery excellence, building trusted client relationships, and continuous improvement. We insist on teamwork and collaboration.

Due to our client's security measures we are not able to sponsor for this role as a US Citizenship is required.

FLSA Designation - This is an exempt position

FI Consulting is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities

FI Consulting participates in E-Verify

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