Senior Data Engineer

Key Skills

Azure, Data Analysis Expressions- DAX, Data Warehousing, Databricks, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google Dataflow, JavaScript, NoSQL, PowerBI, SQL, Tableau

Job Description

Additional Technology Information:

As a Sr. Data Engineer working on the Manufacturing Applications Engineering Team, you will have responsibility for helping convert from our legacy software which runs in our 32 Food Manufacturing Plants nationwide, to our new cloud-based ERP system.

Requirements:

• Familiarity with Connect Direct, Xcom and MQFTE and other forms of data transfer
• Experience with Microsoft Azure (Data Factory, ADLS, SQL Data Warehouse)
• Experience in Java/Kafka coding and design
• Experience with RDB and No SQL databases.
• SQL Scripting/Stored Procedures
• Windows Server

Tech Stack: Azure, Java, Kafka, Javascript, SQL, RDB, NoSQL

Position Summary

Accountable for developing and delivering technological responses to targeted business outcomes. Analyze, design and develop enterprise data and information architecture deliverables, focusing on data as an asset for the enterprise. Understand and follow reusable standards, design patterns, guidelines, and configurations to deliver valuable data and information across the enterprise, including direct collaboration with 84.51, where needed. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

Essential Job Functions

• Utilize enterprise standards for data domains and data solutions, focusing on simplified integration and streamlined operational and analytical uses
• Ensure there is clarity between ongoing projects, escalating when necessary, including direct collaboration with 84.51
• Leverage innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing core data assets, including SQL-based, NoSQL-based, and Cloud-based data platforms
• Define high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state
• Contribute to the development of cost/benefit analysis for leadership to shape sound architectural decisions
• Analyze technology environments to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
• Promote the reuse of data assets, including the management of the data catalog for reference
• Draft architectural diagrams, interface specifications and other design documents
• Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

Minimum Position Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field
• 4+ years experience in the data development and principles including end-to-end design patterns
• 4+ years proven track record of delivering large scale, high quality operational or analytical data systems
• 4+ years successful and applicable experience building complex data solutions that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Any experience in a minimum of two of the following technical disciplines: data warehousing, big data management, analytics development, data science, application programming interfaces (APIs), data integration, cloud, servers and storage, and database mgmt
• Excellent oral/written communication skills

Desired Previous Experience/Education

• Any experience with SSAS Tabular models, Power BI, Dataflows and DAX
• Any experience with Azure Data Platform stack: Azure Data Lake, Data Factory and Databricks
• Any experience with Python, Spark and SQL
• Any experience with streaming technologies like Kafka, IBM MQ and EventHub
• Any experience with data science solutions or platforms
• Any experience with a variety of SQL, NoSQL and Big Data Platforms
• Any experience building solutions using elastic architectures (preferably Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform)

Education Level: Bachelor's Desired

Required Certifications/Licenses: None

Position Type: Full-Time

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