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Data Engineer

Innowatts

Innowatts

Software Engineering, Data Science
Posted on Thursday, June 11, 2020

About Innowatts

Innowatts is an energy technology company based in Houston, TX that is transforming the way
energy is bought, sold, managed and consumed. We are a leading provider of AMI-enabled predictive
analytics and AI-based solutions for utilities, energy retailers, emerging retailers, and smart energy
communities. To date, the Innowatts eUtility™ technology platform has enabled over 52 million
energy consumers and their energy providers with access to lower energy costs and a more reliable
and personalized energy experience. Innowatts is backed by Energy Impact Partners, Shell Ventures,
Iberdrola Energy Ventures, Veronorte and Energy and Environment Investment (Japan).

Summary

As a Data Engineer you will develop and maintain scalable data pipelines while collaborating with
analytical and business teams to improve data models.

Responsibilities

  • Implements processes and systems to monitor data quality, ensuring production data is
    always accurate and available for key stakeholders and business processes that depend on it.
  • Writes unit/integration tests, contributes to engineering wiki, and documents work.
  • Performs data analysis required to troubleshoot data related issues and assist in the
    resolution of data issues.
  • Works closely with a team of frontend and backend engineers, product managers, and
    analysts.
  • Defines company data assets (data models), and other jobs to populate data models.
  • Designs data integrations and data quality framework.
  • Designs and evaluates open source and vendor tools for data lineage.
  • Works closely with all business units and engineering teams to develop strategy for long
    term data platform architecture.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Preferable to have a Degree in an analytical field (e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics,
    Statistics, Engineering, Operations Research, Management Science) and 4+ years of
    professional experience.
  • At least 4 years of data analytics experience in a distributed computing environment
  • Database maintenance
  • Building and analyzing dashboards and reports
  • Evaluating and defining metrics and perform exploratory analysis
  • Monitoring key product metrics and understanding root causes of changes in metrics
  • Empower and assist operation and product teams through building key data sets and data-
    based recommendations
  • Automating analyses and authoring pipelines via SQL/python based ETL framework
  • Superb SQL programming skill
  • Understanding of ETL tools and database architecture
  • Advanced knowledge of data warehousing.
  • Strong knowledge of code and programming concepts. Experience with Python.
  • Experience with Kubernetes deployments and DevOps approach
  • Highly motivated self-starter who is flexible and goal oriented
  • Strong Python Knowledge
    • Data Models
    • Object-Oriented Programming
    • Testing (Unit / Regression)
  • Database Experience
    • Window Functions
    • Partitioning/Indexes
    • Relational and Non-Relational
  • Big Data Experience
    • Hadoop
    • Spark
    • DataFrame API
  • Performance Benchmarking
    • Cluster Configuration/Optimization
    • Spark Optimzation
  • Version Control, CI/CD
    • Git
    • Jenkins, Drone
  • Some Cloud Experience
    • AWS (primary), Azure, Google Cloud.
  • Nice to have
    • Data Science Experience (Either direct or from working closely with a DS team)
    • Scikit-Learn, Tensorflow, Spark.Mllib, General Algebra & Algorithms
    • Airflow (Scheduling Tools)
    • Container Experience : Docker, Kubernetes
    • Streaming Experience : Kafka, Spark Streaming, Flink

Benefits and Additional Perks

  • Fast paced, collaborative and fun environment
  • Work with data and latest technology to transform industry
  • Competitive salary and bonus
  • Medical, dental, vision, 401k, life and long-term disability insurance
  • Paid Time Off
  • Hybrid working.