Data Engineer

ABOUT GREYSTAR

Greystar is a leading, fully integrated global real estate company offering expertise in property management, investment management, development, and construction services in institutional-quality rental housing, logistics, and life sciences sectors. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, Greystar manages and operates more than $315 billion of real estate in 250 markets globally with offices throughout North America, Europe, South America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Greystar is the largest operator of apartments in the United States, manages more than 1,000,000 units/beds globally, and has a robust institutional investment management platform comprised of more than $78 billion of assets under management, including over $36 billion of development assets. Greystar was founded by Bob Faith in 1993 to become a provider of world-class service in the rental residential real estate business. To learn more, visit www.greystar.com.

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

We are looking for a skilled Data Engineer to join our engineering team, focusing on leveraging Azure SQL, Cosmos DB & DataBricks to meet our growing data demands. As a Data Engineer, you will be part of the Scrum team, developing data capabilities powering customer-facing applications used by thousands of residents. You will play a critical role in supporting the data needs of the engineering team as you develop and optimize the backend for customer-facing real estate applications.

JOB DESCRIPTION

KEY RESPONSIBILITES:

• 100% hands-on development – Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, DataBricks: develop and unit test database code, including but not limited to T-SQL, stored procedures, functions and views.
• Own/Maintain the DataBricks data ingestion & output for our Microsoft Customer Insights CDP platform • Create and maintain database structures.
• Participate in the design of databases, using first, second or third normalized form as needed to support business requirements.
• Create, deploy, and maintain ADF pipelines, adhering to Greystar’s standards and documented best practices.
• Monitor database performance, identify bottlenecks and implement improvements to ensure scalable and reliable database operations in a production environment.
• Perform analysis of complex data and document findings.
• Prepare data for prescriptive and predictive modeling.
• Combine raw data from different external sources and build and support complex ingestions.
• Collaborate with application developers/data analysts who will be consuming the data.
• Play a direct role in the maintenance, technical support, documentation, and administration of databases.
• Ensure standards are followed by participating in code reviews
• You are a thought leader who will bring up new ideas or methods and deliver awesome code.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• 6+ years relevant and progressive data engineering experience.
• Deep Technical knowledge and experience in Microsoft Azure architecture, including Azure PaaS databases, Synapse, ADF pipelines and Synapse stored procedures.
• 3+ Years of Experience with Cosmos DB.
• 2+ Years of Experience with DataBricks.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience working with Azure Data Factory.
• Hands-on skills working with data pipelines using SQL and No-SQL databases.
• Minimum of 1 year of relevant experience working with Azure Data Lakes Gen 2.
• Experience with Power Platform / Power BI.
• Experience in engineering practices such as code refactoring, design patterns, CI/CD, and highly scalable data applications.
• Experience developing batch ETL pipelines; real-time pipelines are a plus.
• Knowledge of advanced data engineering concepts such as dimensional modeling, ETL, data governance, data warehousing, structured and unstructured data.
• Understanding / Experience with Python; additional knowledge of parallel processing frameworks like MapReduce, Spark, Scala is a plus.
• Experience / Familiarity with D365 Customer Insights platform / Dataverse is a plus.

Technical Pre-screening test and technical interview will be required for all candidates

OVERALL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, business management information systems, or equivalent experience. Advanced degree preferred.
• Azure certification is nice to have, but not required.
• Knowledge of Agile software development process.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and experience.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• "Self-starter" attitude and the ability to make decisions with minimal guidance from others.
• Innovative and passionate about your work and the work of your teammates.
• Ability to comprehend and analyze operational systems and ask appropriate questions to determine how to improve, migrate or modify the solution to meet business needs.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Occasional time outside of core hours depending on priorities and deliverables.
• Some travel (with advance notice) may be required for training, team meetings or other events.

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Additional Compensation:

• Corporate Positions: In addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible to participate in an annual bonus program based on individual and company performance.
• Onsite Property Positions: In addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible to participate in weekly, monthly, and/or quarterly bonus programs.

Robust Benefits Offered*:

• Competitive Medical, Dental, Vision, and Disability & Life insurance benefits. Low (free basic) employee Medical costs for employee-only coverage; costs discounted after 3 and 5 years of service.
• Generous Paid Time off. All new hires start with 15 days of vacation, 4 personal days, 10 sick days, and 10 paid holidays. Plus your birthday off after 1 year of service! Additional vacation accrued with tenure.
• For onsite team members, onsite housing discount at Greystar-managed communities are available subject to discount and unit availability.
• 6-Week Paid Sabbatical after 10 years of service (and every 5 years thereafter).
• 401(k) with Company Match up to 6% of pay after 6 months of service.
• Paid Parental Leave and lifetime Fertility Benefit reimbursement up to $10,000 (includes adoption or surrogacy).
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity, Pet Insurance and Legal Plans.
• Charitable giving program and benefits.

*Benefits offered for full-time employees. For Union and Prevailing Wage roles, compensation and benefits may vary from the listed information above due to Collective Bargaining Agreements and/or local governing authority.

Greystar will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.