Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This client is a German multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world headquartered in Leverkusen and areas of business include pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products agricultural chemicals seeds and biotechnology products.
Job Title: IT Data Engineer (Entry)
Location: Creve Coeur MO 63167
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Description:
Position Overview:
We are seeking a highly motivated data engineer with demonstrated experience scaling and delivering production quality data systems to join our Science team within Digital Farming Solutions at client Crop Science. You will work closely with key partners including data engineers and data scientists to develop reliable scalable and maintainable machine learning solutions.
What You Will Do:
- Write robust well-documented code
- Engage with colleagues with diverse technical backgrounds and expertise to understand feature model and business requirements and develop solutions to meet automation and scaling needs
- Evaluate existing data and model pipelines and provide recommendations to support business and technical requirements
- Utilize tools and/or infrastructure developed by technical delivery partners to ensure proper data architectures and computational infrastructure is available to support rapid development and testing on machine and deep learning models that create value for our farmers
- Collaborate across the Science organization to create high-quality reproducible tools (e.g. templates packages and dashboards) that will accelerate delivery of customer value
- Undertake written & verbal communication with stakeholders in various parts of the organization in the form of detailed documentation and presentations
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in data science computer science or related quantitative field
- A minimum of 3 years working experience is required for the following
- Strong Python coding skills for development and visualizations including experience with standard packages (numpy pandas matplotlib seaborn)
- Familiar with Extract Transform and Load (ETL) processes and simple pipeline creation
- Proficient use of SQL or Spark to extract and manipulate data from databases data warehouses and data lakes
- Experience utilizing Git for collaborative code development
- Experience with cloud-based platforms (AWS GCP Azure) and basic services (ie. S3 Lambda Dataproc)
- Experience with oral presentation and technical writing
Preferred Qualifications:
- Excitement to learn new topics develop new skills and use new tools
- Experience with web services api and database design
- Experience applying data quality concepts
- Familiarity with NOSQL tools like Hadoop (hive pig presto) and PySpark
- Experience with virtual machines and cloud computing
- Interdisciplinary communication and collaboration skills
- Experience with application of statistics to environmental or agricultural problems
- Expertise in data interoperability and analytics
TekWisen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.