
Data Engineer
Nakupuna Companies
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Pennsylvania • United States
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Salary
💰 $125,000 - $140,000 per year
About the role
- Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using Python and SQL to ingest data from Salesforce Education Cloud, flat files, and API endpoints into the data warehouse
- Implement robust error handling, logging, and automated monitoring to detect and track data quality issues
- Define schemas and curate unified student datasets with targeted completeness and accuracy for downstream reporting and modeling
- Optimize AWS Redshift and PostgreSQL performance through tuning, query optimization, and storage management
- Serve as escalation point for complex data discrepancies and pipeline failures; provide root-cause analysis and permanent fixes
- Coordinate with analysts and BI developers to validate transformations and resolve mismatches
Requirements
- 5+ years of data engineering experience designing ETL/ELT pipelines and data warehouse architecture
- Advanced SQL skills (PostgreSQL, Redshift)
- Experience with Python-based ETL development and automation
- Familiarity with Salesforce data models is preferred
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and data quality checks
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Must have an active Secret clearance.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
ETLELTPythonSQLAWS RedshiftPostgreSQLdata quality checksdata warehouse architecturequery optimizationerror handling
Soft skills
root-cause analysisproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationanalytical thinking
Certifications
Secret clearance