Data Engineer III

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We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Data Engineer III

A high performing individual contributor who mentors junior engineers. applies new data engineering principles to improve existing systems, and leads complex, well-defined projects.

What you will do:

• Proactively teams up with peers across the organization to build an understanding of cross dependencies and shared problem solving.

• Participates in a community of practice to share and gain knowledge.

• Continually seeks new technical skills in an engineering area.

• Shares new skills and knowledge with team to increase effectiveness.

• Demonstrates knowledge of advanced and relevant technology.

• Exhibits comfort working with several forms of technology.

• Understands the relationship between applications, databases and technology platforms.

• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of building and operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets.

• Develops and tests complex or non-routine software applications and related programs and procedures to ensure they meet design requirements.

• Effectively applies knowledge of software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, main table, optimized, modular with good naming conventions.

• Effectively applies knowledge of databases and database design principles to solve data requirements.

• Effectively applies concepts of object oriented design, distributed computing, performance/scalability tuning, advanced data structures and algorithms to batch and real-time stream analytics and large data processing.

• Understands software frameworks and how to leverage them to write simpler code.

• Leads and clarifies code evolution in code reviews.

• Coordinates different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop solutions to issues, and contributes own suggestions.

• Thinks holistically to identify opportunities around policies/ processes to increase efficiency across organizational boundaries.

• Assists with a whole systems approach to analyzing issues by ensuring all components (structure, people, process and technology) are identified and accounted for.

• Recognizes areas of inefficiency in code or systems operation and offer suggestions for improvements.

• Recommends advancements, innovations and changes in technologies (specifically relating to data engineering, cloud data platforms, data models, enterprise information management, business intelligence and data science).

• Compiles data and reports on major operational or technical initiatives (like RCAs) to larger groups, whether via written or oral means.

Who you are:

• Experience: 5+ years for Bachelor's OR 3+ years for Master's

• Software development in at least 3 different languages.

• Built and maintained more than one data pipeline/data product in production environments (bug fixing, troubleshooting, monitoring, etc.).

• Bachelor's or Master's or equivalent experience. Technical degree preferred.

• Displays strength in a couple of programming languages relevant to data (e.g. Java, Spark, Python).

• Identifies strengths and weaknesses among languages for particular use cases.

• Applies organizational technology patterns effectively in their projects and makes recommendations on alternate options.

• Has hands-on experience working with large volumes of data including different patterns of data ingestion, processing (batch & real-time), movement, storage and access (for both internal and external to BU) and is able to make independent decisions within scope of project.

• Displays a good understanding of data structures and algorithms.

• Has hands-on experience working with at least 1 cloud technology and its offerings within the data specialization.

• Understands how projects/teams interact with other teams.

• Understands and design moderately complex systems.

• Has some familiarity with some data modeling and schema design patterns.

• Has a good understanding of organizational reference patterns and technology choices and applies them to their projects.

• Tests and monitors code at the project level.

• Understands how to test and monitor tools.

• Debugs applications.

• Tests, debugs and fixes issues within established SLAs.

• Designs software that is easily testable and observable.

• Understands how team's goals fit a business need.

• Identifies business problems at the project level and provide solutions.

• Development/language skills (Java/Python/Scala)

• Architecture

• Testing, monitoring, alerting

• Business acumen/domain knowledge

• Data access patterns

• Streaming technology

• Data validation

• Data performance

• Cost optimization

Accommodation requests

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