Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. VSP Vision is seeking a Data Engineer to support enterprise data and analytics capabilities. The role develops and maintains reliable, scalable data pipelines; integrates and transforms data from diverse sources; and collaborates with analytics, data warehousing, database, and business teams to ensure data quality and integrity.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate within an agile, multi-disciplinary team to develop optimal data integration and transformation solutions
• Document and analyze data requirements (functional and non-functional) to develop scalable, automated, fault-tolerant data pipeline solutions for business and technology initiatives
• Profile data to assess the accuracy and completeness of data sources and work with business partners to mitigate issues
• Build and maintain data pipelines for using appropriate tools and practices in development, test and production environments. Design with modularity to leverage reuse of code wherever possible
• Create data mappings, programs, routines and SQL to acquire data from legacy, web, cloud and purchased package environments into the analytics environment
• Use a mix of ELT, ETL, data virtualization and other methods to optimize the balance of minimal data movement against performance
• Maintain metadata management processes and documentation
• Monitor data quality to detect emerging issues and consult with the team to create transformation rules to cleanse against defined rules and standards
• Participate in code reviews and unit testing to optimize performance and minimize issues
• For roles that are remote (i.e., Work From Home (WFH)) or hybrid (i.e., partial onsite at a VSP location and WFH), must demonstrate a high level of engagement in virtual environments, including maintaining camera presence during meetings to support effective communication and team alignment

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, statistics, economics or related functional area; or equivalent experience
• Effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to gather requirements and effectively collaborate with teammates and business partners
• 4+ years' experience working in a development team providing analytical capabilities
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in the data space spanning data preparation, SQL, integration tools, ETL/ELT / data pipeline design
• SQL coding experience
• Familiarity with agile development environments (Scrum, Kanban) with a focus on Continuous Integration and Delivery
• Previous experience using a data integration platform (IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Oracle Data Integrator, Informatica PowerCenter, MS SSIS, AWS Glue, Denodo), and familiarity with data warehouse MPP platforms such Snowflake, Netezza, Teradata, Redshift, etc
• Capable of focusing on a specific set of tasks while also ensuring alignment to a broader strategic design
• Exhibits the traits of a pro-active, self-driven contributor, who values continual learning and the adoption of new technology
• For roles that are remote (i.e., Work From Home (WFH)) or hybrid (i.e., partial onsite at a VSP location and WFH), must demonstrate a high level of engagement in virtual environments, including maintaining camera presence during meetings to support effective communication and team alignment
• Familiarity with event store and stream processing (Apache Kafka and platforms like Confluent) and with API development and management platforms (MuleSoft, Axway) is also beneficial

Benefits

• Remote work arrangement

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