Associate Data Engineer - Remote

Position Description
This position is a remote role, open anywhere throughout the United States.
Job Summary
American Cancer Society (ACS) is seeking a passionate data individual on the fight against cancer. This position sits within the Digital Solution’s Discovery Data Science team, where we work with a wide range of data sources and types from research grants, Salesforce, survey data, and genomics data. The associate data engineer will be working in tandem with our lead data engineer to continue to develop and implement a modern data pipeline for ACS.
Major Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with data governance to identify gaps in documentation and standards
• Complete data integration from a multitude of sources into our cloud infrastructure.
• Document the architecture and solutions for business continuity.
• Work with our analytics engineer and business intelligence analyst to build out best in class data models for data visualization.
• Define and execute database and data movement standards, design reviews, pipeline CI/CD process, and data container policies to ensure high quality data management

Position Requirements
FORMAL KNOWLEDGE
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. Two or more years of relevant work experience.
Skills
Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience with python
• Expertise with SQL, YAML
• Experience with Git – Azure DevOps, GitHub, Gitlab, etc.
• Experience with cloud services such as, Azure Cloud, AWS, Google Cloud
• 2+ years of building a modern data pipeline, including the ETL, cloud-storage, reporting, and deployment
• Experience with workflow orchestration (Prefect.io, Airflow. Etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Snowflake experience, particularly data integration from multiple sources.
• Experience with healthcare data, such as claims, electronic health records, biospecimen, medical imaging, genomic data.
• Ability to understand the data needs of researchers, such as epidemiologist and cancer researchers, guiding them to the best practices for their data.
• Exposure to BI tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, Looker.

SPECIALIZED TRAINING OR KNOWLEDGE
Proven experience in data engineering for a modern data pipeline.
The estimated starting rate is $75,000-$100,000 annually. The final candidate's relevant experience/skills will be considered before an offer is extended. Actual starting pay will vary based on non-discriminatory factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, experience, skills, specialty, and education.
The American Cancer Society has adopted a vaccination policy that requires all staff, regardless of position or work location, to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (except where prohibited by state law).
ACS provides staff a generous paid time off policy; medical, dental, retirement benefits, wellness programs, and professional development programs to enhance staff skills. Further details on our benefits can be found on our careers site at: jobs.cancer.org/benefits. We are a proud equal opportunity employer.
Equal Opportunity Employer.
See our commitment to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity to continually ensure equal opportunity to our employees and to our applicants.