Data Engineer III

What you'll do...

Position: Data Engineer III

Job Location: 702 SW 8th St, Bentonville, AR 72712

Duties: Problem Formulation: Identifies possible options to address the business problems within one's discipline through analytics, big data analytics, and automation. Applied Business Acumen: Supports the development of business cases and recommendations. Owns delivery of project activity and tasks assigned by others. Supports process updates and changes. Solves business issues. Data Governance: Supports the documentation of data governance processes. Supports the implementation of data governance practices. Data Strategy: Understands, articulates, and applies principles of the defined strategy to routine business problems that involve a single function. Data Transformation and Integration: Extracts data from identified databases. Creates data pipelines and transform data to a structure that is relevant to the problem by selecting appropriate techniques. Develops knowledge of current data science and analytics trends. Data Source Identification: Supports the understanding of the priority order of requirements and service level agreements. Helps identify the most suitable source for data that is fit for purpose. Performs initial data quality checks on extracted data. Data Modeling: Analyzes complex data elements, systems, data flows, dependencies, and relationships to contribute to conceptual, physical, and logical data models. Develops the Logical Data Model and Physical Data Models including data warehouse and data mart designs. Defines relational tables, primary and foreign keys, and stored procedures to create a data model structure. Evaluates existing data models and physical databases for variances and discrepancies. Develops efficient data flows. Analyzes data-related system integration challenges and proposes appropriate solutions. Creates training documentation and trains end-users on data modeling. Oversees the tasks of less experienced programmers and stipulates system troubleshooting supports. Code Development and Testing: Writes code to develop the required solution and application features by determining the appropriate programming language and leveraging business, technical, and data requirements. Creates test cases to review and validate the proposed solution design. Creates proofs of concept. Tests the code using the appropriate testing approach. Deploys software to production servers. Contributes code documentation, maintains playbooks, and provides timely progress updates.

Minimum education and experience required: Master’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; OR Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field plus 2 years of experience in software engineering or related experience.

Skills required: Must have experience with: Advanced SQL development skills (stored procedures and user-defined functions in SQL Server); Automated repetitive process using RPA (Robotic Process Automation) software and Python script, required Python package includes NumPy, pandas, PyAutoGUI, and selenium; Debugging and coding macros in Excel VBA; Building automated reports and dashboards with MS SQL Server BI Stack, including Power Query, Power BI, DAX and TSQL; Workforce planning processes and validating reasonableness of the forecasted labor demand; Collaborating with data scientists and data analysts to build models and workflows, and use orchestration tool (such as Apache Airflow) to schedule jobs to run machine learning models and workflows automatically; Information security framework such as ISO 27001/2, NIST, COBIT and Cloud Control Matrix, and working with information security to complete security assessment of new tools created by the data engineers; Conducting research on forecasting algorithms using online journal articles database and be able to summarize and communicate the scientific research; Agile methodology to plan deliverables for each sprint, and document project progress using Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet or other project management tools. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

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Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.