Data Specialist, Entry Level

Job_Summary:

VIA is a specialty recruiting partner focused on empowering defense-tech and cutting-edge startups with expert talent advisory. As a Data Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in translating customer domain knowledge into data infrastructure requirements, designing data ingestion processes, and ensuring the quality of data-driven solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Understand existing data ingestion and cleaning processes, and take responsibility for further refinement and implementation

• Explore raw customer data to get a better understanding of the different files, columns, and characteristics (e.g., column averages, expected ranges, trends, standard deviations, etc.)

• Understand customer needs and requirements, and make suggestions based on data

• Work with VIA’s client delivery team and the customer to validate assumptions and resolve issues with the data

• Own the ingestion of data into relational and/or non-relational databases standardized across customers, enabling data to connect to the rest of the data science pipeline

• Leverage VIA libraries to ingest raw data from customers

• Perform cleaning of raw data

• Design end-to-end data pipelines

• Coordinate with internal stakeholders and customers when information is missing or discrepancies are found

• Perform quality control, identifying errors or discrepancies in data and data products, including automated and manual testing

• Translate customer domain knowledge to create automated analyses and insights

• Document assumptions and actions made during the data cleaning and wrangling process to provide traceability

• Utilize data visualization tools to analyze data and craft compelling visual representations

• Contribute to the continual improvement of internal tools for data cleaning and data quality assessment by identifying key data-related challenges that are ideal candidates for automation

• Contribute to the delivery of data-based products to external customers, including data visualizations, data quality reports, and statistical analysis

Qualifications:

-Required:

• 2+ years of experience in a data-driven role or equivalent in data-related research projects

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in science, mathematics, engineering, or a data-driven field

• Competence in at least two of the following technologies:

• Database technologies (e.g., SQL, PostgreSQL)

• Python, R, or equivalent programming with data science libraries (e.g., NumPy, pandas)

• Data visualization tools (e.g., Plotly, seaborn, ggplot)

• Ability to break down complex problems into actionable steps

• Passionate about data quality

• A self-starter attitude and demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly

-Preferred:

• Data dashboarding tools (e.g., Streamlit, Tableau, Dash)

• Data pipelining (e.g., ETL workflows and tools)

Company:

We're a specialty recruiting partner, dedicated to empowering defense-tech, dual-use tech, and cutting-edge startups with expert talent advisory and strategic technical recruiting solutions. hatch I.T. has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.