Data Engineering at TRACTIAN
The Data Engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure that handles massive datasets flowing through TRACTIAN’s systems. This department ensures the availability, scalability, and performance of data pipelines, enabling seamless access and processing of real-time and historical data. The team’s core objective is to architect robust, fault-tolerant data systems that support everything from analytics to machine learning, ensuring that the right data is in the right place, at the right time.
What you'll do
As an Analytics Engineer, you will bridge the gap between data engineering and data analysis by designing, building, and maintaining robust data pipelines and models that empower business teams with actionable insights. You will work closely with data analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to ensure data quality, optimize data workflows, and enable self-service analytics, driving data-informed decision-making across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL processes to transform raw data into usable formats.
- Design, implement, and optimize data models to support reporting and analytical needs.
- Collaborate with data analysts and data scientists to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
- Ensure data quality and consistency across various sources by implementing data validation and cleansing techniques.
- Work with cloud-based data warehouses and analytics platforms to manage and store large datasets.
- Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines to ensure reliable and timely delivery of data.
- Document data processes, workflows, and best practices to enhance team knowledge and efficiency.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 2+ years of experience in Data Science or Analytics.
- Proficiency in SQL and experience with database management systems such as PostgreSQL.
- Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts and experience with ETL tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt).
- Experience with cloud-based data platforms like AWS Redshift.
- Familiarity with programming languages such as Python.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Top Skills
What We Do
Tractian is a machine intelligence company that offers industrial monitoring systems. Tractian builds streamlined hardware-software solutions to give maintenance technicians and industrial decision-makers comprehensive oversight of their operations. It is democratizing access to sophisticated real-time monitoring and asset operations tools.
Tractian's solutions are used in environments that address a combined total of 5% of global industrial output. The company’s broad market reach is evidenced in its customer base from various industries, such as John Deere, Procter & Gamble, Caterpillar, Goodyear, Carrier, Johnson Controls, and Bimbo, the owner of the brands Little Bites and Thomas Bagels. Tractian's customers see a 6-12x ROI with savings of $6,000 per monitored machine annually on average.
In a major milestone and a first for the industry, Tractian launched the AI-Assisted Maintenance category in the industrial sector. In this new paradigm, artificial intelligence identifies machine problems and suggests preventive actions to be taken, giving invaluable insight and support to maintenance professionals. It is important to highlight that the intent of Assisted Maintenance is firmly rooted in augmenting maintenance professionals to provide more assertive diagnosis with human-in-the-loop feedback.
Tractian's mission is to elevate this category of workers in a highly impactful way. The Assisted Maintenance category will provide unimaginable support for maintenance professionals. By combining shop floor expertise with our technology, maintainers will be able to anticipate and address issues with unprecedented accuracy and speed
