Data Engineer II - Will be responsible for Ingestion pipelines, Data management, working closely with Product owner to understand the requirements, prioritize, working with suppliers & consumers of data, impact analysis of existing change requests etc.
Key Responsibilities
Data Pipelines process data structured and unstructured data

• Gathers and processes raw, structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data using batch and real-time data processing frameworks.
• Developing, scheduling, and monitoring batch-oriented workflows (Airflow Apache)
• Understands and enforces appropriate data master management techniques.

Data Validation and Quality

• Ensures data quality and implements tools and frameworks for automating the identification of data quality issues.
• Work with internal and external data providers on data validation providing feedback and making customized changes to data feeds and data mappings.

Agile Planning

• Understands the challenges that the data platform organization faces in their day-to-day work and partner with them to design viable data solutions.
• Working closely with Product owner and Engineering Manager on understanding features, capacity planning, prioritization and dependencies.
• Recommends improvements to processes, technology, and interfaces that improve the effectiveness of the team and reduce technical debt.

Application Support
Provides ongoing on-call support, monitoring, and maintenance of deployed data pipelines / data products, working with offshore shore developers/team
Emerging Technology Monitoring
Actively participates in the engineering community, staying up to date on new data technologies and best practices and shares insights with others in the organization.
Essential:

• Working experience in design, development, and implementation of highly scalable data ingestion pipelines
• Working experience with batch and real-time data processing frameworks
• Working experience with data modelling, data access, and data storage techniques
• Working experience working with relational and NoSQL databases
• Working experience with data quality tools
• Working experience with application lifecycle methodologies (e.g., agile, iterative)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field plus 2 years working experience or 6 years working experience with no degree or equivalent combination of industry related professional experience and education.
• Scrum Developer Certification or equivalent
• Technical Expertise: SQL, snowflake, data warehousing, ETL/ELT process

Must have skills: Python (API calls, functions/API snowflake, airflow) SQL, AWS Cloud (security, IAM, role & permissions, S3, SQS, SNS, EMR, CloudWatch), performance tuning (pipelines/SQL).
Nice to have: Core Java, Spring boot, Scala & Spark, BigData, Data Lake,
To be employed in this role, you'll need to clear a pre-employment background check and drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently consider a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and/or in company vehicles is prohibited.
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