Chicago, Illinois
Data Engineer Job Opening in Chicago, Illinois - Position: Data Engineer Location: Chicago, Northbrook, IL Job Type: 6+ months (Extensions likely) Rate: $60 - 80 / hr (negotiable depending on experience)
Job Family Summary
Data Analytics incorporates techniques from many disciplines, including data acquisition, computer programming, data engineering, software development, high performance computing, and traditional business expertise, with the goal of extracting meaning from data to optimize future business decisions. Individuals in this field should wish to be experts in several of these disciplines and sufficiently proficient in others to effectively design, build, and deliver end to end products to optimize future decisions.
Successful individuals demonstrate significant analytic agility, and quickly develop new skills across these disciplines as they evolve.
The Data Analytics Engineer role is responsible for working with clients to create scaled out business solutions and/or data using best practices, appropriate tools and software to provide documented, trusted and actionable results.
This role requires analytic agility and the ability to quickly learn new techniques and technologies.
Job Summary
Quantitative Research and Analytics is the research and analytics organization.
Our mission is to enable, through analytics, the delivery of perfect insurance solutions to our customers.
This role is responsible for the development of data infrastructure, business solutions, and proof of concept to help QR&A achieve its mission.
This includes creating new and maintaining existing data acquisition processes from inception to fully developed solutions.
This role requires close integration and partnership with business, and a high degree of business acumen is needed to output the best technical solutions.
To be successful in this role, a person should establish themselves as a subject matter expert.
Key Responsibilities:
Utilize multidisciplinary approach to Data Analytic problems to combine technical, analytics and business knowledge.
Demonstrate high degree of analytic agility to meet fluid and dynamic business needs.
Break down business problems into solvable components to recommend solutions.
Use a wide variety of tools and languages to achieve results (e.g., Python, C++, Java, Scala, SQL, Ab Initio).
Rapid development of new data and analytics prototypes.
Develop and deliver data infrastructure to enable advanced analytics.
Explore data sources to better understand the availability and quality of data.
Document available data sources and how they are being transformed.
Embrace an environment that supports innovation and process improvement.
Disseminate knowledge across the team.
Job Qualifications :
Ability to code and develop prototypes in languages such as Python, C++, Java, Scala, SQL, Ab Initio
Some familiarity with the Hadoop ecosystem desired.
Experience with Bash or Korn Shell Scripting desired.
Familiarity with statistical concepts and related technology (R, SAS) is a plus.
Demonstrated analytic agility and problem solving skills.
Ability and desire to learn new languages and technologies.
Strong attention to detail.
Solid written and oral communication skills.
Desire to share and inform others.
**Note: W2 employment and U.S. citizen / Green card holders Only due to government or federal requirement.**
Job Type: Contract
Salary: $60.00 to $80.00 /hour
Required experience:
Python: 1 year
Oracle: 1 year
Java Development: 1 year
SAS or R: 1 year
SQL server: 1 year
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