Data Engineering Associate Consultant (Graduating Dec 2024 - Summer 2025

  • Full-time

Company Description

CapTech is an award-winning consulting firm that collaborates with clients to achieve what’s possible through the power of technology. At CapTech, we’re passionate about the work we do and the results we achieve for our clients. From the outset, our founders shared a collective passion to create a consultancy centered on strong relationships that would stand the test of time. Today we work alongside clients that include Fortune 100 companies, mid-sized enterprises, and government agencies, a list that spans across the country. Learn more at captechconsulting.com.

Job Description

Please note: we are hiring for this position in multiple locations (Atlanta, Charlotte, Reston/DC, and Richmond). You will be able to designate your location preferences upon application. 

CapTech Data Engineering Associate Consultants are technology enthusiasts with a passion for solving complex business problems and implementing cutting-edge data solutions for our clients. You will enjoy working within a collaborative team environment to help define and deliver innovative, data-driven solutions to our clients.

We attract creatively innovative, ethically insightful, driven, value conscious, caring, and passionate people who love what they do and bring that enthusiasm to projects.

Our Data Engineers focus on building and implementing advanced data systems to deliver high quality data to drive business solutions. Utilizing engineering best practices to ingest and process data quickly and efficiently, our engineers look to build advanced systems that bring data together from disparate sources for businesses to use.

Other ways you’ll contribute as an Associate Data Engineer:

  • Build data systems that bring together data from disparate sources, making it available to data scientists, analysts, and other users
  • Ingest, clean, and transform structured and unstructured datasets to solve data problems and deliver data solutions
  • Design, develop, and implement data processing pipelines at scale

At CapTech, you’ll find hands-on, on-the-job training and a jumpstart to your career through a variety of training initiatives – including an interactive, client-simulated college hire boot camp. Your 3-week boot camp session will kick off your CapTech career as an Associate Consultant in our one-year Discovery Program, a robust continuation of onboarding to support your transition from college to CapTech. In addition to plenty of social events and networking opportunities, we'll help facilitate your skill development with various workshops and cross-training in different areas of our business. Support from fellow employees such as Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), coaches, and client stakeholders provides the mentorship needed to accelerate learning and drive internal connections. 

Qualifications

General qualifications include:

  • Graduating in December 2024 - Spring/Summer 2025 with a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or similar discipline
  • Prior work, internship or classroom experience in business concepts and processes with the chance to work with specific tools
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • The ability to be productive and collaborative while working in a largely hybrid environment
  • Strong problem solving and troubleshooting ability

Technical skills needed:

  • Familiarity with data ingestion and transformation fundamentals, as well as working with messy data
  • Experience developing data solutions using relational database management systems such as: SQL Server, MySQL, Redshift, Amazon RDS, etc.
  • Fundamental proficiency in: Python, SQL or another scripting language to extract and manipulate data

Set yourself apart with prior work/internships in a related technical field and/or this experience:

  • Working with one or more data transformation tools/products: Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Google Data Fusion, Informatica, Alteryx
  • Fundamental understanding of one or more cloud providers and storage solutions such as: AWS (S3), Google Cloud Platform and Storage, Azure (Blob Storage)
  • Familiarity with entity relationship diagrams (ERD)

Note: Graduate students only considered if they went straight to grad school from undergrad and have no prior full-time work experience, otherwise please refer to our experienced hire postings at https://www.captechconsulting.com/careers/captech-experiencedhires

Additional Information

We provide challenging and impactful opportunities in our client work and internal teams, while keeping individual interests in mind. We want everyone at CapTech to be able to envision a lifelong career here, which is why we offer a variety of career paths based on your skills and passions. As a CapTecher, you will experience exciting and rewarding roles that help you grow and make a difference, while having fun along the way.  

CapTech is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a culture of equality, inclusion and fairness — each foundational to our core values.  We strive to create a diverse environment where each employee is encouraged to bring their unique ideas, backgrounds and experiences to the workplace. For more information about our diversity, Inclusion and belonging efforts, click HERE. 

At this time, CapTech cannot transfer nor sponsor a work visa for this position. Applicants must be authorized to work directly for any employer in the United States without visa sponsorship.  

CapTech is a Drug-Free work place.
CapTech has not contracted/does not contract with any outside vendors in its recruitment process. If you are interested in this position, please apply to CapTech directly.

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