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In this role, you will focus primarily on designing and optimizing cloud-based data pipelines, ingestion frameworks, and data models that power analytics, reporting, operational insights, and more real-time data delivery, including modernization of QoS-related data pipelines. You will thrive in this role if you enjoy solving complex technical challenges, working with cross-functional partners, and building high-quality data infrastructure that drives strategic decision-making.\r\nWhat You'll Do: Contribute to the design, development, and optimization of scalable, reliable, and efficient data pipelines and ETL processes\r\nBuild and enhance data ingestion frameworks using AWS services such as Glue and DataSync, along with platforms including Snowflake and DBT\r\nSupport the implementation of strategies for ingesting structured and unstructured data from databases, APIs, and streaming sources, ensuring data quality, accuracy, and security\r\nTroubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve issues related to data pipelines and ingestion processes\r\nDevelop and maintain data models to support analytics, reporting, and cross-functional business needs\r\nEnsure adherence to data governance, compliance requirements, and security best practices\r\nMonitor, maintain, and optimize the health and performance of the data infrastructure to proactively identify bottlenecks or inefficiencies\r\nWork with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions\r\nSupport the onboarding and integration of QoS data initiatives, enabling more real-time operational visibility\r\nWhat You'll Need to Succeed: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.\r\n5+ years of relevant experience in data engineering\r\nPrior experience in effectively collaborating and communicating with engineering teams and business stakeholders to build and maintain productive working relationships\r\nStrong proficiency in Snowflake, DBT, SQL, Python, and modern ETL/ELT frameworks\r\nExperience with data pipeline design, data modeling, streaming and batch ingestion technologies such as Kafka and NiFi/Openflow\r\nHands-on experience with AWS cloud services and data quality, governance, and performance-tuning practices\r\nAbility to translate business requirements into scalable data architectures\r\nTelecom or satellite industry experience is a plus\r\nStrong organizational skills with the ability to set personal priorities and assist others in executing assigned tasks, with guidance; proactively communicates bandwidth issues to manager\r\nGood communication skills, with the ability to comfortably present products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues to groups within your team\r\nAble to create, edit, and structure documents with minimal guidance\r\nDemonstrates active listening and asks substantive, thought-provoking questions\r\nPossess an analytical mindset, with the ability to understand key outputs of data analysis, make routine decisions using data, and recognize and propose solutions to issues\r\nProactive in providing formal and informal feedback to peers and managers\r\nFacilitates teamwork, positively impacts team/peer group, and demonstrates ownership of assigned tasks and activities\r\nThings That Would be Great if You Brought to the Table: Experience with data orchestration tools such as Airflow\r\nFamiliarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, or data quality frameworks\r\nAWS certifications or Snowflake certifications\r\nWe'll also need you to: Be able to work in the office at least 60% of the time (3 days per week) to foster collaboration with the team and stakeholders\r\nBe on call\r\nMust be a US Person\r\nWork Environment: This position primarily works in an office setting and is largely sedentary with the majority of the position working with a computer. 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