Data Lead

About Forward

Forward is a consulting firm that works exclusively with independent consultants to help startups build their engineering organizations.

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About the Work

Keywords: spark, python, MWAA airflow, redshift, athena

Budget: $175-$200/h

Hours per week: 20

Term: 5-6 months

Location: US-based candidates only (legal requirement)

Workings hours: at least 5 hours overlap with ET

Start date: Immediate

Company stage: Series B

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Context

We’re working with a Series B healthcare startup that has three different data projects they are looking for help with, two in active production, one in development. They aren’t expecting you to work on everything all at once, but instead embed with the different teams one by one and address strategic concerns ranging from observability and reliability within MWAA to collaborating with their engineers on performance and scaling strategies for moving and processing ever increasing volumes of data. Their eng org is around 100 folks.

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About You

Roughly in order of importance:

• You have experience building distributed data pipelines
• You have experience with Airflow
• You have spark experience
• You have MWAA experience
• You have 10+ years experience

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How to Apply

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