Data Engineer Jobs

Ranked one of Puget Sound Business Journal's "Best Workplaces" and "Fastest Growing Mid-Size Companies" Affirma is expanding and looking to hire talented individuals. We are seeking a Data Engineer to join our growing Data & Analytics team. This individual will support Affirma's mission to provide exception value to our clients by planning, executing, and deploying data management solutions.

This person would need to go into an office 5 days a week.

Qualifications:

• Experience bringing together data from many disparate data sources to a unified source of truth
• Excellent written and verbal communication with stakeholders, team members, and in documentation
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment with some level of ambiguity to implement customer and project requirements with minimal supervision
• Tableau dashboard development
• Advanced knowledge of Python and SQL in developing complex queries, functions and query optimization
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and/or experience
• Hands-on experience with Hive with strong knowledge of ETL retrieval from Hive
• 2-4 years experience in dimensional data modeling, ETL development, and dashboard development in a professional capacity
• Driven by analytics and naturally curious to ask "why" and "what if"

Responsibilities:

• Design, propose, and develop database and data warehousing solutions
• Collaborate with team members to refine and debug scripts and reports

• Write and maintain documentation to describe database development, logic, scripting, testing, changes, and corrections

• Support the release of solutions into production environments

• Balance shifting priorities, demands, and timelines while effectively communicating expectations to team members and stakeholders in a clear and timely fashion

• Provide technical to assistance to data consumers regarding errors, problems, or questions with databases and reports

• Provide thought leadership, best practices, and standards required to deliver effective, lasting, and easy-to-maintain solutions to clients

• Continuously grow depth and breadth of knowledge of leading data and analytics tools and principles

Preferred experience includes:

• Knowledge of programming or scripting language like R
• Background in computer science or related technical field

Why Affirma?

• Casual environment, surrounded by incredibly intelligent and motivated co-workers, and a performance-driven culture
• Opportunity for growth
• One of Washington's Fastest Growing Private Companies & Top 100 Best Companies to Work For (According to Seattle Business Magazine and Puget Sound Business Journal)
• Flexible Schedule

Affirma is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not make employment decisions or otherwise discriminates based on race, creed, color, national origin, sex, military status, sexual orientation, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by law.