Contract Data Engineer

As a contract data engineer, you’ll leverage CTA products, along with our data warehouse and ETL pipelines, to empower our progressive organization partners to answer critical questions with data. You’ll work alongside our software engineers to develop pipelines in our ETL platform, build production data materializations in BigQuery, and design solutions to pressing analytics and targeting problems in the progressive space.

This contract runs full time September through December, with the possibility for extension.

About us

Community Tech Alliance is a group of progressive technologists and strategists formed to provide data infrastructure building blocks to the progressive ecosystem at a low cost. CTA seeks to uplevel program impact by unlocking the potential of data, using software and data engineering, and removing the barriers to entry. We are a small team of engineers, data practitioners, product managers, and strategists looking to create infrastructure for progressive change.

Community Tech Alliance believes strongly that:

• Inclusive teams are strongest, and supportive work environments take investment, intentionality, and openness

• Empathy is the cornerstone of building smart technology solutions

• All team members should take ownership of the project and team’s development

• Iteration is key, and smart solutions require action not perfection

• Nothing great has been built without making mistakes and learning from them

As a Data Engineer, you should:

• Have experience working to build new pipelines and integrations using Google Cloud Platform

• Have experience working day-to-day using BigQuery

• Bring a security-first mindset to how we build and support products

• Act autonomously and thrive in a strong team environment, be excited to work in a fully remote role

• Be able to work with, clarify and find creative solutions for ambiguous requirements

We use things like:

• Python and SQL in Linux

• Apache Airflow, dbt, Airbyte, and other open-source data tooling

• Terraform and infrastructure management tools

• Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Identity, Google Cloud Storage, and Google Compute Engine

• Amazon Redshift

Nice-to-have experience includes:

• Experience working with digital data sources such as platform and ads data

• Experience with progressive political campaigns, organizations, vendors, or related tooling

Physical Demands

The physical demands here represent those that a contractor must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

• Ability to sit at a computer monitor for extended periods of time

Compensation
Weekly retainer in the range of $5,000-$7,000 commensurate with experience.

Community Tech Alliance provides 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.

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.