We’re excited to announce that the Insight Data Engineering Fellows Program is expanding to Boston, starting April 2018. This fully-sponsored fellowship is a continuation of the Data Engineering programs currently ongoing in New York and Silicon Valley, which have successfully helped software engineers and academic programmers make the transition to a career in data engineering.

Boston is home to world-class academic institutions and top-tier data teams

We have witnessed the growing need in a front-row seat through building the Insight data community in Boston since 2015. We are particularly excited about the expansion to Boston, a city with an unique blend of academia and industry to make innovations in technology. This year, Boston ranked as the #1 biotech hub, with $2.9 billion venture funding in the past year, giving professional engineers immense opportunities to make a positive impact through technology. Many top-tier data teams are drawn to Boston thanks to the burgeoning supply of talented students.

Still, the demand for hiring data engineers has increased dramatically due to a rapid growth of data in volume and complexity. Companies are looking for experienced software engineers to build scalable, distributed data architecture to process massive real-world data. However, there is an increasing number of specialized open-source technologies in the data engineering ecosystem. It is extremely challenging to find candidates with hands-on experience in big data engines (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, and Cassandra) as well as an ability to collaborate with other team members such as data scientists or product managers. That’s where Insight comes in.

Insight Fellows developing data engineering projects together

The Insight Data Engineering Fellows Program is a 7 week, full-time, professional training program. It enables experienced engineers and programmers to apply their existing software development skills by building efficient and scalable data platforms with distributed systems. Throughout the fellowship, Fellows receive mentorship from practicing data engineers at companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, Tamr, Wayfair, Boston Consulting Group, Boston Health Economics, MassMutual, Kayak, iRobot, TempAlert, among others. Several of these companies will be looking to hire Fellows for positions in Boston.

A sample of partnering companies of the Data Engineering program in Boston

In addition to learning data engineering tools and building projects under the mentorship of Boston-based engineers, Data Engineering Fellows will have opportunities to gain practical machine learning experience through collaboration with our data science Fellows. Moreover, they will join an active network of over 1,000 Insight alumni now working as data scientists and engineers at over 350 companies across the US.

Emmanuel Awa, an Insight Data Engineering alum and software engineer on Microsoft’s Azure team in Boston, presenting fundamentals to Insight Health Data Science Fellows

We are looking forward to helping engineers and programmers transition into data engineering in the Greater Boston Area. Applications for the April 2018 Boston session are now open, as well as for upcoming sessions in Silicon Valley and New York City — Learn more and apply at the Insight Data Engineering website.