Data Engineer III

McLane Company

2.7

(3)

Temple, TX

#2501856

Position summary

imizes data for further analysis and modelling. Designs, develops, optimizes, and maintains data architecture and pipelines that adhere to Data Pipeline (i.e., ELT) principles and business goals. Lead complex data engineering projects and provide strategic guidance.

Benefits you can count on:

  • Day 1 Benefits: medical, dental, and vision insurance, FSA/HSA, and company-paid life insurance

  • Paid time off begins day one.

  • 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan after 90 days.

  • Additional benefits: pet insurance, maternity/paternity leave, employee assistance programs, discount programs, tuition reimbursement program, and more!

Essential Job Functions/Principal Accountabilities:

  • Designs, develops, optimizes, and maintains data architecture and pipelines that adhere to ELT principles and business goals.

  • Solves complex data problems to delivers insights that helps business achieve its goals.

  • Architect and implement end-to-end data solutions.

  • Define data engineering best practices and standards.

  • Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

  • Creates data products for engineer, analyst, and data scientist team members to accelerate their productivity.

  • Engineer effective features for modelling in close collaboration with data scientists and businesses.

  • Leads the evaluation, implementation and deployment of emerging tools and process for analytics data engineering to improve productivity and quality.

  • Partners with machine learning engineers, BI, and solutions architects to develop technical architectures for strategic enterprise projects and initiatives.

  • Fosters a culture of sharing, re-use, design for scale stability, and operational efficiency of data and analytical solutions.

  • Advises, consults, mentors, and coach other data and analytic professionals on data standards and practices.

  • Develops and delivers communication and education plans on analytic data engineering capabilities, standards, and processes.

  • Understands machine learning, data science, computer vision, artificial intelligence, statistics, and/or applied mathematics as necessary to conduct role effectively.

  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Skills & Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, statistics, engineering, or a related field.

  • 7 plus years of experience required.

  • Deep understanding of distributed computing, data architecture, and scalability.

  • Strong critical thinking skills and ability to address big data challenges.

  • Leadership and project management abilities.

  • Proficiency in designing and maintaining data warehouses and/or data lakes with big data technologies such as Spark/Databricks, or distributed databases, like Redshift and Snowflake, and experience with housing, accessing, and transforming data in a variety of relational databases.

  • Proficiency in building data pipelines and deploying/maintaining them following modern DE best practices (e.g., DBT, Airflow, Spark, Python OSS Data Ecosystem).

  • Proficiency in Software Engineering fundamentals and software development tooling (e.g., Git, CI/CD, JIRA) and familiarity with the Linux operating system and the Bash/Z shell.

  • Proficiency with cloud database technologies (e.g., Azure) and developing solutions on cloud computing services and infrastructure in the data and analytics space.

  • Basic familiarity with BI tools (e.g., Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI, Looker).

  • Expertise in ELT and data analysis, SQL primarily.

  • Conceptual knowledge of data and analytics, such as dimensional modelling, reporting tools, data governance, and structured and unstructured data.

Working Conditions:

  • Office environment.

Candidates may be subject to a background check and drug screen, in accordance with applicable laws.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.