Data Engineer 06+ Months Contract Charlotte, NC (Hybrid) Pay Range: $65-$72/hr on W2 (USC, GC, GC EAD, H4 EAD ONLY ON W2) Supports the build, maintenance and enhancements of data lake development; supports simple to medium complexity API, unstructured data parsing and streaming data ingestion Builds, tests and enhances data curation pipelines integration data from a wide variety of sources like DBMS, File systems and APIs for various KPIs and metrics development with high data quality and integrity Supports the development of feature / inputs for data models in an Agile manner Works with Data Science team to understand mathematical models and algorithms Handles data manipulation (extract, load, transform), data visualization, and administration of data and systems securely and in accordance with enterprise data governance standards Maintains the health and monitoring of assigned analytic capabilities for a specific data engineering solution; ensures high availability of the platform; monitors workload demands; works with Infrastructure Engineering teams to maintain the data platform BI Engineering Responsibilities Supports the build, maintenance and enhancements of BI solutions; creates standard and ad hoc reports; uses basic report formatting like sorting, totaling, and exporting Demonstrates database skill (Teradata/Oracle/Db2/Hadoop) by constructing Logical SQL statements, validating MicroStrategy Report SQL and DB SQL for data testing, and using MicroStrategy Web Builds, tests and enhances BI solutions from a wide variety of sources like DBMS and File systems; develops solutions with high data quality and integrity Works with business analysts to understand the requirements and create dashboard/dossiers wireframes Monitors the jobs/cubes, and overall health of the platform; resolves user access requests; works on data tickets and enhancements; monitors Enterprise Manager loads; works on creating the reports on Enterprise Manager metrics Competencies Technical Competencies Agile Development Software Development Test Engineering Programming Big Data Management Qualifications Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering /Computer Science, CIS, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field) 2 years of experience in Data or BI Engineering, Data Warehousing/ETL, or Software Engineering 1 year of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (SDLC)