About Innowatts

Innowatts is an energy technology company based in Houston, TX that is transforming the way
energy is bought, sold, managed and consumed. We are a leading provider of AMI-enabled predictive
analytics and AI-based solutions for utilities, energy retailers, emerging retailers, and smart energy
communities. To date, the Innowatts eUtility™ technology platform has enabled over 52 million
energy consumers and their energy providers with access to lower energy costs and a more reliable
and personalized energy experience. Innowatts is backed by Energy Impact Partners, Shell Ventures,
Iberdrola Energy Ventures, Veronorte and Energy and Environment Investment (Japan).

Summary

As a Data Engineer you will develop and maintain scalable data pipelines while collaborating with
analytical and business teams to improve data models.

Responsibilities

• Implements processes and systems to monitor data quality, ensuring production data is
  always accurate and available for key stakeholders and business processes that depend on it.
• Writes unit/integration tests, contributes to engineering wiki, and documents work.
• Performs data analysis required to troubleshoot data related issues and assist in the
  resolution of data issues.
• Works closely with a team of frontend and backend engineers, product managers, and
  analysts.
• Defines company data assets (data models), and other jobs to populate data models.
• Designs data integrations and data quality framework.
• Designs and evaluates open source and vendor tools for data lineage.
• Works closely with all business units and engineering teams to develop strategy for long
  term data platform architecture.

Minimum Qualifications

• Preferable to have a Degree in an analytical field (e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics,
  Statistics, Engineering, Operations Research, Management Science) and 4+ years of
  professional experience.
• At least 4 years of data analytics experience in a distributed computing environment
• Database maintenance
• Building and analyzing dashboards and reports
• Evaluating and defining metrics and perform exploratory analysis
• Monitoring key product metrics and understanding root causes of changes in metrics
• Empower and assist operation and product teams through building key data sets and data-
  based recommendations
• Automating analyses and authoring pipelines via SQL/python based ETL framework
• Superb SQL programming skill
• Understanding of ETL tools and database architecture
• Advanced knowledge of data warehousing.
• Strong knowledge of code and programming concepts. Experience with Python.
• Experience with Kubernetes deployments and DevOps approach
• Highly motivated self-starter who is flexible and goal oriented
• Strong Python Knowledge
  • Data Models
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Testing (Unit / Regression)
• Database Experience
  • Window Functions
  • Partitioning/Indexes
  • Relational and Non-Relational
• Big Data Experience
  • Hadoop
  • Spark
  • DataFrame API
• Performance Benchmarking
  • Cluster Configuration/Optimization
  • Spark Optimzation
• Version Control, CI/CD
  • Git
  • Jenkins, Drone
• Some Cloud Experience
  • AWS (primary), Azure, Google Cloud.
• Nice to have
  • Data Science Experience (Either direct or from working closely with a DS team)
  • Scikit-Learn, Tensorflow, Spark.Mllib, General Algebra & Algorithms
  • Airflow (Scheduling Tools)
  • Container Experience : Docker, Kubernetes
  • Streaming Experience : Kafka, Spark Streaming, Flink

Benefits and Additional Perks

• Fast paced, collaborative and fun environment
• Work with data and latest technology to transform industry
• Competitive salary and bonus
• Medical, dental, vision, 401k, life and long-term disability insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Hybrid working.