Senior Data Engineer

C.H Robinson is seeking a Senior Data Engineer role as a technical leadership role on a software development team. They work closely with engineering product managers, business stakeholders, and other leaders to define, estimate, and design complex, strategic, data solutions that delight our customers. They are responsible for driving innovation through leadership, influence and discussions. In addition, the role is also responsible for impacting and continuously improving our engineering process and mentoring other engineers across the organization.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The duties and responsibilities of this position consists of, but are not limited to, the following:

• Analyze and translate high-level customer requirements into detailed designs to solve complex business problems
• Design solutions that align to the long-term plan for a service or product based on deep expertise and customer insights
• Partner with various engineering teams to create and manage a long-term data and information architecture and execution roadmap for a product or service
• Define data solutions and develop code across multiple products or services, as well as, influence or drive architectural changes
• Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure; draw from a large base of design patterns, is an expert in available technologies, and is adept at identifying practices that work well
• Identify code across multiple code bases to optimize, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability while ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment
• Lead code reviews across the product or service, understand the root causes of issues, and find ways to resolve them
• Proactively identify performance and availability issues, troubleshoot, provide effective options, and resolve issues in production that could span multiple product areas
• Develop and maintain thorough architectural documentation for the product or service
• Design products or services by using secure programming patterns and by finding, fixing, and enhancing security in existing applications
• Ensure security best practices are part of design and implementation of new features and applications
• Estimate for projects that span multiple product areas including work, time, resources and skill needs
• Proactively identify technologies or solutions that differ from current technology stack or represent innovative uses of existing technologies
• Construct and deliver proposed solution strategies for potential new technologies and work with architecture to review and approve proposals
• Mentor and coach other engineers by participating in design and code reviews and share best practices; proactively seek mentorship from others
• Lead the effort in defining the engineering lifecycle and practices for team and associated teams in partnership with the principal data engineer
• Drive collaboration across multiple teams; find ways accomplish more by enabling others
• Anticipate business needs and present options to leadership and business stakeholders with product managers
• Other duties or responsibilities as assigned according to the team and/or country specific requirements

Required Qualifications:

•  6+ years of experience developing and implementing commercial software across several platforms while leveraging a variety of programming languages 
• Experience in owning and delivering projects and results of increasing technical complexity
• Experience working on large-scale data sets in a commercial environment
• Experience building and modeling data in relational and non-relational data storage technologies including schema design, stored procedure development and performance and optimization techniques (e.g. SQL Server, Postgres, Mongo, Cosmos, etc.)
• Experience implementing and designing data acquisition, data curation, and data analysis
• Experience with unit, integration, and acceptance testing
• Experience with version control systems (ex. GIT, GitHub, TFS, etc.)
• Experience with HTTP and REST architecture
• Experience with CI/CD continuous integration / continuous deployment practices
• Experience orchestrating data transformation through cloud native platforms (ex. Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Experience with data streaming architecture and frameworks (Kafka, ESB)
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IS, MIS, or other technology degree or minimum of 4 years of equivalent work experience and high school diploma/GED

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working on large-scale open source or inner source software development
• Experience in system integration projects or global projects
• Experience with machine learning models and data science solutions
• Experience with modern development languages (e.g. .Net CORE, C#, Java)
• Experience with thin-client development (e.g. HTML/CSS, JavaScript, JS frameworks)
• Possess solid communication skills and strong customer focus
• Effective collaborator, experienced in creating technical partnerships across teams
• Able to learn and understand the various technical domains across the enterprise and able to communicate complex technical and business concepts across the enterprise and various business stakeholders
• Experience directly or indirectly leading high performing teams with the ability to assess and grow software engineering talent
• Proven track record of effectively delivering results in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities
• Values a diverse and inclusive work environment

We will review applications for this role on an ongoing basis and encourage all interested candidates to apply at their earliest convenience.

Compensation Range

The base pay range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum base pay for the position across all U.S. locations. Your individual base pay within this range is determined by work location, which takes into account geographic cost of labor, and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base pay only and do not include additional variable compensation.

Questioning if you meet the mark? Studies have shown that some individuals may be less likely to apply unless they match the job description exactly. Here at C.H. Robinson, we’re building an inclusive workplace where all employees feel they belong. If this position excites you, we welcome you to apply whether you check all the preferred qualifications or just a few. You may just be our next great fit!

Equal Opportunity

C.H. Robinson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to a workplace and performance culture that reflects the strengths of our worldwide marketplace. We value unique experiences and diverse backgrounds of our people within our company, our business relationships, and our communities. We’re committed to providing an inclusive environment, free from harassment and discrimination, where all employees feel welcomed, valued and respected.

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Benefits

Your Health, Wealth and Self

Your total wellbeing is the foundation of our business, and our benefits support your financial, family and personal goals. We provide the top-tier benefits that matter to you most, including:

• Three medical plans which include

• • Prescription drug coverage

  • Enhanced Fertility benefits

• Flexible Spending Accounts

• Health Savings Account (including employer contribution)

• Dental and Vision

• Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance

• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

• Paid observed holidays

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

• Flexible Time Off (FTO) offered to U.S. salaried employees — no accruals and no caps. Paid Time Off (PTO) offered to all other employees in the U.S. and Canada

• Paid parental leave

• Paid time off to volunteer in your community

• Charitable Giving Match Program

• 401(k) with 6% company matching

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Plus a broad range of career development, networking, and team-building opportunities

Learn more about our benefit offerings on our BENEFITS & WELLBEING page