Sr. Data Engineer from Widenet Consulting
Tuckwila, WA
About the Job
This position has in-office “core days” of Tuesdays and Wednesdays where all corporate employees are expected to be onsite. Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays are flexible remote days to allow for work/life balance.
Job Description/Skills:
Our client is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the architecture and development of their enterprise data strategy. Reporting to the Director of Enterprise Applications and Data Management, this role will play a key role in design, delivery, and management of our enterprise data strategy and solution(s). As a key contributor to our digital transformation, this role will take the lead in designing data structure, design, and ingestion, reporting processes and standards for the organization working across both the IT development, infrastructure, and analyst teams.
As a senior member of the IT team, this role will be instrumental in promoting agility, scalability, and operational excellence. This role will also be a key contributor in our business transformation, working closely with our IT Business Analysts to understand the challenges facing our business partners and developing scalable and repeatable data solutions to meet their needs. This role will be a trusted partner to your peers within the IT team, demonstrating the ability to provide both conceptual and technical mentorship.
Essential Functions: Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time.
- Maintain and build on our data warehouse and analytics environment.
- Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain stable, secure, and scalable data engineering solutions and pipelines.
- Build reports and data visualizations, using data from the data warehouse and other sources.
- Produce scalable, replicable code and engineering solutions that help automate repetitive data management tasks.
- Implement and monitor best in class security measures in our data warehouse and analytics environment.
- Provide direct input on the IT technology roadmap, helping ensure we make appropriate investments in build vs. buy decisions.
- Define and document best practices and strategies.
- Keep apprised of trends, identifies best-in class capabilities, opportunities and technology that may benefit our client.
- Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to development and infrastructure teams to build EDW and development competencies.
Position Requirements
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals qualified with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Proven success in developing technical solutions with a ‘cloud first’ mindset.
- Deep understanding of cloud data warehousing and ETL best practices, including system reliability and scalability.
- Ensuring data quality and consistency across various sources.
- Ability to function effectively as a change agent and problem solver within your team and across IT and the business.
- Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills with the ability to think critically, problem solve, and articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
Education and/or Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, mathematics, or progressive relevant work experience.
- 8+ years of development experience required.
- 5+ years’ experience working with public cloud providers (Azure, Oracle Cloud, etc.).
- 5+ years’ experience in data pipeline development, including languages such as Python and R, and tools such as Airflow and SSIS.
- 5+ years Data Warehousing and ETL experience, preferably with large transactional datasets.
- Familiarity working in both Windows and Linux environments.
- Direct experience working with both traditional and agile methodologies required.
- Experience within the manufacturing industry, including knowledge in supply chain, procurement, and logistics is preferred but not required.
Benefits: Our client is proud to offer generous benefits including comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance (starting at $50/month for employee only coverage on the PPO Plan or starting at $25/month for employee only coverage on the HDHP), 401(K) matching, 3 weeks of paid vacation, 10 paid holidays, company provided life insurance and disability insurance, flexible spending account, healthcare saving account, voluntary accident insurance, voluntary critical illness insurance, and tuition reimbursement.
Salary Information: An employee in this position can expect a salary range between $126,101 and $208,055. We typically pay out between $142,000 and $180,000. The actual salary offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including internal equity, experience, education, certification, training, and location. All positions are eligible for additional incentives based on business performance.