Senior Data Engineer

SRS Distribution, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Home Depot, currently operates under a family of distinct local brands encompassing more than 760 locations across 47 states. For more information, visit www.srsdistribution.com.  ​

Where you'll work:

• This is an onsite position. Our corporate office is located 7440 S. Hwy 121 McKinney, TX 75070 

What You'll do:

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer with the unique combination of business acumen, technical skills, and vision to translate innovative ideas into world-class technical solutions using modern technologies.

In this role, you will have an opportunity to be part of one of the fastest-growing organizations and take part in shaping industry-leading initiatives.

The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for building enterprise data engineering solutions using our cloud-based data platform (Snowflake). This is a hands-on role and will entail day-to-day technical deliverables and participation in design, delivery, and support for data engineering workloads in a fast-paced enterprise environment.

Business Engagement:

• This position requires a combination of business acumen to interface directly with key stakeholders to understand the problem and the skills to deliver data to support their needs.
• Works closely with business teams daily to meet ad hoc data requests.
• Develop a solid understanding of various business domains and develop /enhance existing data solutions that meet business needs.

Data Pipelines Development:

• Create automated pipelines to ingest and process structured and unstructured data from source systems into analytical platforms using batch and streaming mechanisms leveraging cloud-native toolsets.
• Experience leading data modeling conversations and developing logical data models for an ecosystem of large datasets of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data formats.
• This role will require extensive experience in all SDLC phases and the ability to lead solution discussions with cross-functional teams for complex data projects.
• Expertise in the delivery, management, and business adoption of large datasets across a variety of data platforms, sources, and formats
• Develop, enhance, and provide recommendations for end-to-end monitoring capabilities of cloud data platforms.
• Automate the deployment of services and integrate new patterns that will allow us to scale as we ingest new data sets and deploy new capabilities.
• Lead business requirement gathering discussions and create technical specifications.
• Build in-depth knowledge across subject areas and capture documentation for end-to-end data flows/lineage.
• Serve as a key resource and technical SME for guiding the maintenance and future progression of the data warehouse and its architectural integrity.

Ways of Working and Collaboration:

• Self-starter mindset. Ability to take an idea and then build a use case for creating data integrations.
• Strong communication and management skills to interface with business and technology teams
• Participate in educating and cross-training other team members.
• Participate in daily stand-up calls and provide clear visibility to work products
• Support our analyst & data science community by curating & joining data sets, flattening hierarchies, and general data wrangling to assist in delivering analytic use cases.
• Create documentation to support the transition to production engineering delivery once the use cases are proven.
• On-Call support for Production applications
• Staying informed on the latest product features and modern / emerging data technologies and methodologies

What we look for:

• BS in Computer Science or a related field

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering and analytics.
• 3+ years of experience working on Data Processing Frameworks and Tools. Exposure to software engineering such as parallel data processing, data flows, REST APIs, JSON, XML, and microservice architectures
• 1+ year of experience working on Big Data Processing Frameworks and Tools

• Proven experience in Snowflake (Certification – SNOW Pro Certification - Preferred)

• Experience using Matillion and ELT methodology.
• Prior experience in SQL Server (SSIS / SSMS) would be Plus.
• Experience in at least one cloud platform and specifically leveraging Cloud native Data services (AWS, Azure, Google)
• Hands-on experience working with code repositories, CI/CD tools, and Agile methodology.
• Experience supporting Production applications or workloads in a cloud-based environment.

Nice to Haves:

• Good understanding and experience in any Messaging platforms (Kafka, Kinesis, Azure Event Hub, Streaming platforms using Pub Sub, etc.)
• Prior working experience on data science workbench Knowledge of machine learning pipelines (e.g., train/test splitting, scoring process, etc.)
• Background in Accounting or Pricing would be a plus.

      

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Job Location: SRS Distribution - McKinney

      

7440 State Highway 121 McKinney, TX 75070-3104

Equal Opportunity Employer.

Veteran Friendly Employer. SRS Distribution believes in hiring military veterans at any level for any position.  We know your service trained you in many of the areas we value, such as; leadership, teamwork, performance, integrity, and safety. If your experience matches our requirements, we want you to apply today.