Senior Data Engineer

Title: Senior Data EngineerLocation: Sunnyvale, CAPosition: 2 Month (Contract)SummaryProvide business insights, while leveraging internal tools and systems, databases and industry dataRoles & ResponsibilitiesAbility to document requirements, data lineage, subject matter in both business and technical terminology.Guide and learn from other team members.Demonstrated ability to transform business requirements to code, specific analytical reports and toolsThis role will involve coding, analytical modeling, root cause analysis, investigation, debugging, testing and collaboration with the business partners, product managers other engineering team.Minimum QualificationsVery Strong engineering skills. Should have an analytical approach and have good programming skills.Minimum of 5+ years’ experience. Experience in retail business will be a plus.Excellent written and verbal communication skills for varied audiences on engineering subject matterMust HaveStrong analytical backgroundSelf-starterMust be able to reach out to others and thrive in a fast-paced environment.Strong background in transforming big data into business insightsTechnical RequirementsKnowledge/experience on Teradata Physical Design and Implementation, Teradata SQL Performance OptimizationExperience with Teradata Tools and Utilities (FastLoad, MultiLoad, BTEQ, FastExport)Advanced SQL (preferably Teradata)Experience working with large data sets, experience working with distributed computing (MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Apache Spark, etc.).Strong Hadoop scripting skills to process petabytes of dataExperience in Unix/Linux shell scripting or similar programming/scripting knowledgeExperience in ETL/ processesReal time data ingestion (Kafka)BS degree in specific technical fields like computer science, math, statistics preferredEducation