Senior Data Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Minnesota.

📋 Description

• Analyze and convert high-level customer requirements into comprehensive designs for intricate business challenges.

• Create solutions that align with long-term service or product strategies and customer insights.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to develop and oversee data and information architecture roadmaps.

• Define data solutions and write code across various products or services.

• Influence or initiate architectural modifications.

• Construct and sustain test infrastructure utilizing design patterns and available technologies.

• Enhance, refactor, and reuse code across codebases to boost performance and maintainability.

• Lead code reviews and address root causes of issues.

• Identify and resolve performance and availability challenges in production across product areas.

• Create and maintain architectural documentation.

• Design secure products and services while improving security in existing applications.

• Estimate project workload, time, resources, and skill requirements across product areas.

• Identify innovative technologies and formulate proposed solution strategies.

• Mentor and guide engineers through design and code evaluations.

• Define the engineering lifecycle and practices for the team and related teams.

• Foster collaboration among multiple teams.

• Anticipate business needs and present options to leadership, stakeholders, and product managers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of experience in developing and implementing commercial software across various platforms and programming languages.

• Proven experience in owning and delivering projects with increasing technical complexity.

• Experience working with large-scale datasets in a commercial setting.

• Expertise in building and modeling data within both relational and non-relational storage technologies.

• Proficient in schema design, stored procedure development, performance, and optimization techniques.

• Experience in designing and implementing data acquisition, data curation, and data analysis processes.

• Familiarity with unit, integration, and acceptance testing.

• Experience using version control systems such as GIT, GitHub, and TFS.

• Knowledge of HTTP and REST architecture.

• Understanding of CI/CD practices.

• Experience orchestrating data transformation via cloud-native platforms like Azure, AWS, and GCP.

• Familiarity with data streaming architectures and frameworks such as Kafka and ESB.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IS, MIS, or another technology degree from an accredited college or university, or at least 4 years of equivalent work experience alongside a high school diploma/GED.

• Preferred: Experience in large-scale open-source or inner-source software development.

• Preferred: Experience in system integration or global projects.

• Preferred: Experience with machine learning models and data science solutions.

• Preferred: Expertise in modern development languages like .NET Core, C#, and Java.

• Preferred: Experience with thin-client development such as HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and JS frameworks.

• Strong communication skills with a solid customer focus.

• Effective collaboration skills and the ability to establish technical partnerships across teams.

• Capability to understand technical domains and articulate complex technical and business concepts.

• Experience in leading high-performing teams and cultivating engineering talent, either directly or indirectly.

• Proven ability to achieve results in a dynamic environment while managing multiple priorities.

• Commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive work atmosphere.

🏝️ Benefits

• Three medical plans with prescription drug coverage.

• Enhanced fertility benefits.

• Flexible Spending Accounts.

• Health Savings Account with employer contributions.

• Coverage for dental and vision.

• Basic and supplemental life insurance.

• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.

• Paid observed holidays.

• Two paid floating holidays for U.S. hourly employees.

• Flexible Time Off (FTO) for U.S. salaried employees, with no accruals and no caps.

• Paid Time Off (PTO) for all other employees in the U.S. and Canada.

• Paid parental leave.

• Paid time off for community volunteering.

• Charitable Giving Match Program.

• 401(k) plan with 6% company matching.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Opportunities for career development, networking, and team-building.