Data Specialist, Entry Level
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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.
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