Data Engineer, New Grad & Entry Level

Sokrates Advisors is a management consulting firm that offers data-driven strategy and tools for the private equity industry. They are seeking a freelance Data Engineer to transform messy, multi-source data into clean insights for high-stakes data projects.

Responsibilities

• Acquire & integrate authoritative APIs, filings and web data (Python, SQL)
• Engineer & clean: normalize, deduplicate, containerize pipelines
• Package insights: concise visuals + bulletproof methodology docs
• Bonus: model & infer (frequentist and Bayesian techniques for metrics, density maps, capacity estimates)
• Ship prototypes quickly, then refine to production quality
• Automate data collection from imperfect sources

QualificationRequired

• Experience with Python
• Experience with SQL
• Ability to acquire & integrate authoritative APIs, filings and web data
• Ability to engineer & clean data: normalize, deduplicate, containerize pipelines
• Ability to package insights: concise visuals + bulletproof methodology docs
• Ability to ship prototypes quickly, then refine to production quality
• Ability to automate data collection from imperfect sources

Preferred

• Spark/Dask
• AI/ML toolkits (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Hugging Face)
• Prior work with global infrastructure datasets