Sr. Data Engineer

Job Description: Senior Data Engineer at Conagra Brands

Company Overview: Conagra Brands is on a journey to build an Enterprise Data Platform to deliver best-in-class data solutions. Join our Enterprise Data Engineering team as a Senior Data Engineer and contribute to shaping and maintaining products responsible for our data-driven future. Leverage cutting-edge cloud-based technologies like Databricks, Snowflake, Palantir and other world-class tools to deliver solutions that empower our business.

Position Overview: As a Senior Data Engineer, reporting to the Director of Information Technology, you will be responsible for leading and owning the Enterprise Data Platform and its data products. In today's data-driven world, Enterprise Data Products are an absolute necessity, streamlining the process of accessing crucial data, ensuring data accuracy and reliability, enabling efficient decision-making, and empowering teams across the organization to collaborate effectively. You will work with cross-functional Portfolio and Business Teams, ensuring data accessibility, quality, and efficient decision-making. You will be the subject matter expert and mentor for data-related activities, driving the success of our data initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and implementation of data-related features and stories within the Enterprise Data Platform.
• Collaborate with data scientists, business analysts, and cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and priorities.
• Break down complex data tasks into manageable chunks and assign tasks to team members for delivery.
• Ensure high data quality standards and maintain the accuracy and reliability of data.
• Create and manage data models, and validate them with key business representatives, data owners, data architects, and end-users.
• Build automations to validate source-to-target data accuracy during build, testing, and support phases.
• Identify and resolve data-related issues proactively or based on input from end-users.
• Create complex and efficient SQL data transformations and views for various use cases.
• Perform SQL performance tuning, including identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks, join optimization, data model optimization, and data pre-processing.
• Oversee the creation of automated test cases to ensure data values are within expected ranges, complete, and within quality parameters.
• Develop job schedules for data flows and ensure seamless data integration.
• Mentor junior team members and offshore data engineers.
• Operate within a DevOps framework for maintaining source control and deploying database objects; create automated test cases when checking in DB objects.
• Ensure the health and quality of operational support provided by third-party services.

Position Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university preferred or 5+ years of experience in an IT data-related role.
• Ability to communicate effectively with analysts, offshore resources, and leadership; prior experience leading junior team members.
• Demonstrated knowledge of business concepts and processes related to supported data domains.
• Deep experience (5+ years) in writing and debugging complex SQL on RDBMS platforms like Snowflake, SQL Server, and Oracle.
• Proficient in Python and PySpark for data processing and transformation.
• Experience with DevOps frameworks and source control.
• Proficient in using ETL tools like Informatica IICS, Talend, Data Services, and SSIS.
• Experience with cloud-based technologies like Databricks, Snowflake and Palantir.
• Experience operating within an Agile framework to break down, estimate, assign, and complete work.
• Preference will be given to candidates who are legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring employer sponsorship now or in the future.

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Compensation: 

Pay Range:$90,900-$132,300

The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.

Our Benefits:

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:

• Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement
• Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
• Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement
• Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities

Our Company:

At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye ®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®.

Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.