Analyst / Junior Developer

Role description

Analyst / Junior Developer

Developer I - Software Engineering

Who We Are:

Born digital, UST transforms lives through the power of technology. We walk alongside our clients and partners, embedding innovation and agility into everything they do. We help them create transformative experiences and human-centered solutions for a better world.

UST is a mission-driven group of 29,000+ practical problem solvers and creative thinkers in more than 30 countries. Our entrepreneurial teams are empowered to innovate, act nimbly, and create a lasting and sustainable impact for our clients, their customers, and the communities in which we live.

With us, you’ll create a boundless impact that transforms your career - and the lives of people across the world.

Visit us at UST.com.

You Are:

The Sr Engineer, Data designs and delivers scalable data architectures and advanced data engineering solutions across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid platforms to support enterprise analytics and customer intelligence use cases.

The opportunity:

Design and develop advanced data engineering solutions that enable data pipelines, visualization, and analytical tools

Architect and implement scalable data platforms across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments

Build, optimize, and operate complex batch and real-time and near real-time streaming data pipelines

Build, optimize, and operate low-latency, sub-second APIs on highly scalable, fault-tolerant architectures.

Design and maintain high-throughput data pipelines to support agentic AI workloads and real-time multi-agent MCP orchestration.

Build and maintain enterprise-scale Graph Databases that power organizational knowledge graphs and connected data experiences.

Perform data wrangling, exploration, and discovery across heterogeneous data sources to generate insights

This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.

What you need:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

8+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and supporting data engineering solutions

Strong experience developing and migrating data solutions across cloud platforms

Demonstrated technical leadership and mentoring experience

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills applied to complex data challenges

Ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives with strong organizational and prioritization skills

Passion for learning and applying new data and platform technologies

Must Have Skills:

Core Data Engineering & Platforms

Advanced experience designing and building complex data pipelines using Python and SQL

Strong experience with cloud platforms and services, including:

Azure (Data Factory, Data Lake, Event Hub, Functions, Web Apps, Cosmos DB)

Databricks with PySpark, Spark SQL, and Scala Spark, including cluster configuration, autoscaling, and performance optimization (e.g., Photon)

Snowflake data warehousing, including schema design (star/snowflake), query optimization, and cost/performance tuning

Expertise in SQL, NoSQL, and relational database design and development

APIs, Streaming & Integration

Proficiency designing and consuming RESTful APIs with secure authentication and authorization (OAuth 2.0, JWT, API keys)

Experience using Postman and Swagger/OpenAPI for API testing, documentation, and validation

Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable big-data data stores

Engineering Practices

Advanced knowledge of data pipeline development using Python and experience with languages such as SQL, DAX, Java, Scala, and/or Go

Experience performing root-cause analysis and using technology to solve complex business problems

Experience adopting AI-assisted development tools and building AI-powered agents or agentic workflows to automate engineering tasks, accelerate delivery, and enhance data platform capabilities

Experience with NL-to-SQL query generation using Databricks Genie and Snowflake Cortex to enable natural language access to data assets

Hands-on experience with Unity Catalog for data governance, fine-grained access control, and end-to-end data lineage

Experience developing AI-assisted dbt models, including AI-generated transformation logic, automated documentation, and intelligent testing

Familiarity with AI-powered data quality tools for automated profiling, anomaly detection, and pipeline observability

Nice to Have:

Experience with Iceberg table design and optimization

Experience with Unity Catalog governance and security

Cloud platform certifications such as Azure Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Cloud Practitioner, or MCSA

Experience contributing to enterprise data governance, security, or compliance initiatives

Experience with ML feature platforms (e.g., Feast, Tecton, or Databricks Feature Store) and vector database engineering (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector)

Experience designing and operating streaming AI pipelines and applying MLOps practices to data engineering workflows

Exposure to end-to-end ML pipeline ownership and real-time AI inference plumbing in production environments

Compensation can differ depending on factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, education, and level of experience. UST provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in various U.S. markets as set forth below.

Role Location: Georgia

Compensation Range: $56,000-$84,000

Benefits

Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year, receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year), 10 paid holidays, and are eligible for paid bereavement leave and jury duty. They are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching. They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as the following Company-paid Employee Only benefits: basic life insurance, accidental death and disability insurance, and short- and long-term disability benefits. Regular employees may purchase additional voluntary short-term disability benefits, and participate in a Health Savings Account (HSA) as well as a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for healthcare, dependent child care, and/or commuting expenses as allowable under IRS guidelines. Benefits offerings vary in Puerto Rico.

Part-time employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year) and are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching.

Full-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year) and are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) program with employer matching. They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance.

Part-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year).

All US employees who work in a state or locality with more generous paid sick leave benefits than specified here will receive the benefit of those sick leave laws.

What we believe:

We proudly embrace the values that have shaped UST since day one. We build our culture of Humility, Humanity, and Integrity. These values inspire us to nurture a people-first, human centric culture that fosters diversity, prioritizes sustainable solutions, and keeps our people and clients at the forefront of all decisions.

Humility:

We will listen, learn, be empathetic and help selflessly in our interactions with everyone.

Humanity:

Through business, we will better the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves.

Integrity:

We honor our commitments and act with responsibility in all our relationships.

UST reserves the right to periodically redefine your roles and responsibilities based on the requirements of the organization and/or your performance.

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Skills

python,relational database design,artificial intelligence,vector database,

Benefits

Compensation range: $56,000.00 to $84,000.00 per year

About UST

UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients’ organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact - touching billions of lives in the process.