Data Engineering- 6-12 months contract - Philadelphia, PA/NJ/NY

Title: Data Engineering

Location; Philadelphia, PA( preferred) or NJ or NY (Remote till COVID)

Duration: 6-12  months

Rate: $DOE

Core Skills – Data Engineering, Big Data, PySpark, Spark SQL and Python

Candidates with prior Palantir Cloud Foundry OR Clinical Trial Data Model background is required.

Major accountabilities:

• Responsible for Data Engineering, Foundry Data Pipeline Creation, Foundry Analysis & Reporting, Slate Application development, re-usable code development & management and Integrating Internal or External System with Foundry for data ingestion with high quality.
• Have good understanding on Foundry Platform landscape and it’s capabilities
• Performs data analysis required to troubleshoot data related issues and assist in the resolution of data issues.
• Defines company data assets (data models), Pyspark, spark SQL, jobs to populate data models.
• Designs data integrations and data quality framework.
• Design & Implement integration with Internal, External Systems, F1 AWS platform using Foundry Data Connector or Magritte Agent
• Collaboration with data scientists, data analyst and technology teams to document and leverage their understanding of the Foundry integration with different data sources - Actively participate in agile work practices
• Coordinating with Quality Engineer to ensure the all quality controls, naming convention & best practices have been followed

Desired Candidate Profile :

• Strong data engineering background
• Experience with Clinical Data Model is preferred
• Experience in

• SQL Server ,Postgres, Cassandra, Hadoop, and Spark for distributed data storage and parallel computing
• Java and Groovy for our back-end applications and data integration tools
• Python for data processing and analysis
• Cloud infrastructure based on AWS EC2 and S3

• 7+ years IT experience, 2+ years’ experience in Palantir Foundry Platform
• 4+ years’ experience in Big Data platform
• 5+ years of Python and Pyspark development experience
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills
• BTech or master's degree in computer science or a related technical field
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining big data pipelines systems
• Hands-on experience on Palantir Foundry Platform and Foundry custom Apps development
• Able to design and implement data integration between Palantir Foundry and external Apps based on Foundry data connector framework
• Hands-on in programming languages primarily Python, R, Java, Unix shell scripts
• Hand-on experience in AWS / Azure cloud platform and stack
• Strong in API based architecture and concept, able to do quick PoC using API integration and development
• Knowledge of machine learning and AI
• Skill and comfort working in a rapidly changing environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users.
• Demonstrated ability to continuously learn, work independently, and make decisions with minimal supervision