Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines to handle large and complex data sets using Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka. Ensure that data pipelines are scalable, reliable, and performant, and that they adhere to data governance, data security, and data quality best practices. Help develop sustainable data solutions with current and leading next generation data technologies to transform business capabilities. Collaborate with end users to ensure data availability and accessibility. Work with cross-functional teams to identify and implement process improvements for data pipelines and data workflows. Monitor and troubleshoot data pipeline issues to ensure high availability and reliability. Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to other team members to ensure that code is high quality and adheres to best practices. Remain current with industry trends and emerging technologies in Big Data and data engineering and evaluate their potential impact on our data infrastructure and systems. Lead, mentor, and develop up and coming engineers. Engage in technology strategy and data architecture across enterprise. The position is based out of and reports to Thrivent’s HQ in Minneapolis, MN, but allows for the option to telecommute from a home office anywhere in the US.
Requirements:
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field plus 6 years of progressively responsible post baccalaureate experience as a data engineer.
- At least 6 years of Data Engineering experience with Big Data Technologies: Apache Spark and Hadoop.
- At least 5 years of experience with the following:
- Programming with Python, Java or Scala;
- Designing and architecting big data solutions using Spark and Hadoop.
- At least 4 years of experience with the following:
- Building data pipelines, CICD pipelines, and fit for purpose data stores;
- BI development and reports;
- Data Warehouse modelling with star schema; modelling data in big data eco system;
- Developing and executing test cases.
At least 3 years of experience building data pipelines using Snowflake, Databricks and Kafka.
At least 2 years of experience with the following:
- Streamsets and Bamboo;
- Working with Informatica, IICS and DB2;
- Cloud technologies: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OpenStack, Docker, Ansible, Chef, Lambdas, Microservices and Terraform.
Salary: at least $173,400/year
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in MIS, Computer Science, or related field (or foreign equivalent) plus 6 years post-baccalaureate data engineering experience
- 6+ years Data Engineering experience with Apache Spark and Hadoop
- 5+ years programming experience with Python, Java, or Scala
- 5+ years designing and architecting big data solutions using Spark and Hadoop
- 4+ years building data pipelines, CI/CD pipelines, and fit-for-purpose data stores
- 4+ years BI development and reporting experience
- 4+ years data warehouse modeling experience (star schema) and modeling in big data ecosystems
- 4+ years developing and executing test cases
- 3+ years building data pipelines using Snowflake, Databricks, and Kafka
- 2+ years experience with StreamSets and Bamboo
- 2+ years working with Informatica, IICS, and DB2
- 2+ years experience with cloud and infra technologies: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OpenStack, Docker, Ansible, Chef, Lambdas, Microservices, Terraform
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