Data Engineer

Northern Light is a leading provider of market and competitive intelligence (M&CI) platforms and curated intelligence content.

Our solutions enable some of the world’s most recognizable organizations to anticipate market dynamics, track industry trends, and stay ahead of the competition. From the C-suite to insights and intelligence teams, Northern Light empowers our clients to achieve better business outcomes.

About our Data Engineer role:

• Manage the flow of data from source to user, working in a fast paced and collaborative environment. 
• Design and create services to collect data from wherever it is published and, in any format, and prepare data for text extraction and analysis.
• Design and create services to build, index, and serve big data collections to users in enterprise search systems.
• Develop, document, test and maintain data architectures.
• Identify ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality.
• Use large data sets to address business issues for customers.
• Deploy sophisticated analytics programs, machine learning and statistical methods.
• Prepare data for predictive and prescriptive modeling.
• Troubleshoot and solve document flow and accessibility issues and communicating findings to the Content Operations Team and Project Managers.

Minimum Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent practical experience including 3+ years of experience with one or more general purpose programming languages, including Perl and Python.

Preferred Experience and Skills

• Experience in large scale data processing using traditional and distributed systems
• Experience designing and operating data models and data warehouses as well as experience in SQL and NoSQL database management systems
• Experience with a continuous integration build system
• Experience with Linux environments
• Experience with git and docker
• Effective project management, problem solving, analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Knowledge of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Understanding of secure coding standards

Work authorization requirements:  

Must be authorized to work in the United States (unfortunately, we cannot sponsor visas). 

Benefits: 

• 401(k).  
• Flexible schedule. 
• Holidays and Paid time off. 
• Health insurance. 
• Dental insurance.  
• Vision insurance. 
• Flexible spending account. 
• Life and disability insurance. 
• Parental leave. 
• Employee assistance program. 

Location: Remote within the U.S. (Preference for Eastern Standard Time Zone).

Preferably in the New England area.

Job Type: Full-Time

Northern Light Careers: 
Working at Northern Light you will have the chance to work with cutting edge knowledge management technology applied to enterprises' market research and competitive intelligence needs, global Customers, and the greatest team of people ever assembled. The pace is fast. The environment is smart and fun. And the culture is fanatical about customer service. 

Working at Northern Light: 
Northern Light is based in Boston. Northern Light is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Northern Light is an E-Verify participant. 
 
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.