The Data Intelligence Team is a central data engineering and analytics team that supports business decisions and company strategy across all parts of Maxar. We collect data from a variety of interesting sources and build automated data flows that help enable actionable insights for many different teams and products. We are looking for data professionals that are excited to work with cloud-based tools and build high quality data flows. We are a team of people from a variety of data focused backgrounds. We support each other and we help each other learn and grow. Come collaborate with us to help guide Maxar and improve our collective understanding of our planet.

Responsibilities

● Collect, store, and aggregate data to support the creation of great data products for the business and our customers

● Be creative and cooperative in designing and building data pipelines

● Use cloud based infrastructure and applications (we use AWS and maintain our own kubernetes clusters)

● Continually learn and seek ways to improve our data flows

● Collaborate well in a team environment (we use agile)

● Validate data and maintain healthy infrastructure and data flows

Required

● Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field or equivalent work experience

● Experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines

● 2 years of experience with Python, SQL, AWS (S3, EC2)

● Data visualization or reporting experience

● Good verbal and written communication skills

Preferred

Any experience with…

● Airflow or other ETL scheduling tools

● Building or improving APIs

● Collecting data from a variety of sources (APIs, Postgres, Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, etc)

● Thoughtfully storing data in databases (especially Postgres) to support data products and reporting

Any experience with or willingness to learn…

● Big data pipelines using Spark and streaming tools

● Maintaining data pipelines used in a production environment

● Working with geospatial data

● Additional coding languages, especially JVM languages or Bash

● Any of these or similar tools (Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, PostgreSQL, Tableau)

● Additional AWS tools (EFS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, Glue, Athena)

Perks

● Diverse team that works and learns together

● Great benefits, flexible time off for family and travel, pet insurance discounts

● Working to improve products that helps us understand and protect our planet

● Well lit office space with on-site cafeteria and coffee shop

● Private frisbee golf course and very nice game and quiet rooms for mental breaks

● Quarterly self-guided work time to build what you want or learn new skills and technology