Senior Data Engineer

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**This position is eligible to work a hybrid schedule within the Des Moines, Iowa Metro Area**

Essential Functions:

Develops, test, and maintains prioritized engineering (design/build/test) work as a member of a data analytics product pipeline architecture and infrastructure team:

• Ensures delivery of solutions for organization of data, such as transformation, conformation, integration, and aggregation of data
• Partners with the Data Platform Operations (DPOs), Information Security, Network, and Operations teams to design and implement new data pipelines for new business initiatives as related to data and analytics
• Serves as a technical expert for the Data Engineering team
• Ensures best practices and internal processes are followed when solutions are designed and implemented
• Ensures the delivery of solutions for acquisition of data, such as landing, staging, rapid ingestion, and historical data extraction
• Creates processes framework, design and implementation of large-scale data conversion and data ingestion on various cloud and on-premise platforms using most optimal processing and programming techniques
• Investigates and analyzes feasibility of data integration prototypes and program requirements
• Develops specifications and plans the full range of programming actions to produce data integration components
• Develops and maintains highly complex automated ETL/ELT pipeline architecture that cleans, transforms, and aggregates data from disparate sources using architecturally approved tools, programming languages, and services to deliver a data mesh approach
• Develops and maintains highly complex automated ETL/ELT monitoring and alarming solutions using architecturally approved languages and services
• Monitors, troubleshoots, and optimizes data pipelines for quality, performance, and reliability creating a single source of truth providing business customers with highly reliable and quality data
• Builds highly complex unit tests to enable test driven development and automation to drive code reliability
• Develops, maintains, tests, and deploys code with architecturally approved toolsets using Dev Ops practices, ETL/ELT pipelines, data catalogs and data queries
• Serves as a technical resource and supports team members on EMC’s data integration projects and helps them learn new technologies
• Leads evaluation of new technologies including performing POCs and presenting results to others, with a goal of providing technical recommendations
• Balances and designs data analytics product solutions based on cost and performance to meet business requirements
• Guides business customers to develop, troubleshoot, and optimize complex SQL and ETL/ELT solutions to solve reporting, metrics, and analytics problems.

Data analysis: Collaborates with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements for data analytics products and translate them into scalable and efficient data solutions:

• Leads complex projects and provides subject matter expertise, support and advice to other projects being handled by the team
• Partners with users and stakeholders to understand data needs and business requirements
• Leads the team on conceptualizing and developing new data solutions to meet the business data needs and requirements
• Researches, performs analysis, and proposes effective solutions related to system developments and enhancements through collaboration with Data Architecture
• Analyzes and reviews potential adjustments or modifications for impacts on other programs
• Drives best practices in data governance, data security, and privacy principles to support data lineage and reference data needs.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to understand business and downstream application (BI reporting, Data Science, Data Governance, other System integrations) and consumer requirements to deliver data-driven solutions that implement best practices for data management, security, and governance

Data modeling:

• Develops highly complex data objects for business analytics using data modeling techniques
• Models front-end and back-end data sources to help draw a more comprehensive picture of user flows throughout the system and to enable powerful data analysis
• Works with stakeholders to understand highly complex business needs and translates them into a conceptual data model, defining entities, attributes, and relationships
• Builds highly complex detailed logical models based on the conceptual model, specifying data types, constraints, and keys to ensure data integrity
• Implements highly complex logical models into appropriate database management system, considering database features, storage optimization, and performance considerations
• Designs highly complex data pipelines to extract data from source systems, transform it as needed based on the data model, and load it into the target database

Documentation:

• Participates in creating and maintaining documentation related to the design of applications and interfaces to enterprise and third-party systems in accordance with departmental and team standards
• Collaborates with data governance on ensuring what is being produced in data analytics products enables data governance to publish a data asset
• Collaborates with data governance to develop and maintain data analytic products, artifacts and user documentation for business customers
• Works with business customers and software development teams to gather and document requirements for data publishing and data consumption via data mesh architecture.
• Maintains systems documentation

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a computer related field or equivalent relevant experience
• Eight years of data integration development experience, or related experience

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilties:

• Excellent SQL Knowledge and experience working with relational databases
• Excellent analytics skills to work with unstructured datasets preferred
• Excellent knowledge of applicable programming languages such as Python
• Strong knowledge of cloud services such as RDS, S3, SNS, CloudWatch and Lambda
• Advanced knowledge of DBT/Informatica or other ETL/ELT tools preferred
• Excellent knowledge of Snowflake
• Excellent knowledge of data modeling
• Excellent ability to build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management
• Excellent knowledge of orchestration or scheduling tools
• Excellent ability to manipulate, process and extract value from large, disconnected datasets
• Advanced knowledge of DevOps and/or DataOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization technologies preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong attention to detail, organizational and multi-tasking skills required with the ability to adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to maintain confidentiality

The hiring salary range for this position will vary based on geographic location, falling within either of the following:

A hiring range represents a subset of the full salary range. The actual salary will depend on several factors, including relevant education, skills, and experience of an applicant, geographic location, and business needs.

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