Data Science Engineer

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This is a fully remote opportunity for one of our esteemed clients.

About the role:
Data Science Engineer

Responsibilities
Curate, design and catalogue high quality data models to ensure that data is accessible and reliable
Build highly scalable data processing frameworks for use across a wide range of datasets and applications
Provide data-driven insight and decision-making critical to GS's business processes, in order to expose data in a scalable and effective manner
Understanding existing and potential data sets in both an engineering and business context
Deploy modern data management tools to curate our most important data sets, models and processes, while identifying areas for process automation and further efficiencies
Evaluate, select and acquire new internal & external data sets that contribute to business decision making
Engineer streaming data processing pipelines
Drive adoption of Cloud technology for data processing and warehousing
Engage with data consumers and producers in order to design appropriate models to suit all needs

Required skills:
5+ years of overall experience
4+ years of experience working as a Data Scientist/Data Science Engineer.
4+ years of AWS experience
4+ years of experience using Python
4+ years of experience using SQL
4+ years of experience using Terraform
Experience in data warehousing as well as building ETL pipelines

Nice-to-have skills:
Streamlit

Location:

100% remote
Timezone:

UTC-4

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