Cloud Data Engineer

Naviga is the leading provider of software and services powering media-rich industries. Our Content Engagement Platform (CEP) helps companies create, enrich, deliver, and monetize content to manage engagements from end to end. Our solutions are easy to use, scalable and agile. Combining our experience in media with a dedication to digital, we've developed software solutions that help any content-driven business meet the demands of the future of information.

With headquarters in Bloomington, MN, and regional offices throughout the world, Naviga is a trusted partner serving over 3,200 news media, broadcast, magazine, financial services, and corporate clients in 45 countries.

POSITION SUMMARY

This position is for a Cloud Data Platform Engineer who will focus on developing the Naviga Customer Data Platform on AWS

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Responsibilities:

Operation Skills

Design and develop Engineering solutions to aggregate and automate large scale data flows from varying sources
Build ETLs from internal and external sources to provide insights into the business
Writing and tuning complex Data Pipelines, workflows, and data structures
Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying operational support for stakeholders
Create and maintain workflow/technical documents for all the development activities
Experience in communicating with business stakeholders as well as with colleagues


Technical Skills/Experience:

Experience in industry big data platform stack like Databricks, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, AWS DMS, AWS Fargate etc.
Must have skills Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Python, Glue, functional programming,
Deliver right solution architecture, automation and technology choices starting from experimentation and proof of concept phases of new analytical models
Ability to design logical and physical data models, big data storage architecture, data modelling methodologies, metadata management AWS Serverless native services
Strong experience on Data warehouse technologies, ETL, SQL Server
Prior experience on building CDP will be plus


Soft Skills:

Self-Learner: self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail.
Strong customer service orientation.
Ability to present ideas and solutions in user-friendly language.
Good written and oral communication skills; good interpersonal skills.
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks.


Educational Background/ Other Requirements

University degree in the field of computer science
7-10 years relevant work experience.




DESIRED BEHAVIORS

Technically proficient – knows the role and has a solid familiarity with tasks and responsibilities.
A bias to action – a willingness to “jump right in” with an emphasis on producing results.
Highly collaborative – an affinity for solving complex problems through dialog with team members.
Curiosity – always seeking the “why’s” and “how’s” in the interest of continuous learning and the mastery of a craft.
Innovation – the courage to challenge prevailing assumptions and suggest better ways of doing things to achieve business value.
Comfortable with ambiguity – can begin to explore and solve complex problems even when the problem and solution are not always well defined.
Display ethical character and competence - acts with integrity and intent, is accountable for own actions, behaves per the values. Act as a good citizen of Naviga