Senior Data Engineer

Graco manufactures and markets premium equipment to move, measure, control, dispense and spray a wide variety of fluid and powder materials. What does that mean? Well, we pump peanut butter into your jar, and the oil in your car. We glue the soles of your shoes, the glass in your windows and the screen on your phone. We spray the finish on your vehicle, coatings on your pills, the paint on your house and texture on your walls. Graco is part of your daily life.

The Senior Data Engineer will engineer and manage robust data pipelines that ensure seamless, secure, and efficient data integration and transformation across the enterprise. Reporting to the Manager of Data Platforms, the Senior Data Engineer will collaborate with operational and business partners, help to execute solutions that align with our data strategy, and propel organizational objectives.

What You Will Do at Graco

Data Management Strategy 

• Designs, develops, and maintains scalable and efficient data pipelines for collecting, processing, consuming, and storing datasets. 

• Implement data management practices to ensure data quality, including data cleansing, normalization, and validation techniques. 

• Develop and maintain data warehouses, data lakes, ensuring efficient storage and retrieval of data assets. 

• Implement data security measures, to protect sensitive information and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations. 

• Monitor and audit data access and usage to detect and prevent unauthorized access. 

• Integrates data from various sources, including databases, data warehouses, APIs, and external systems. 

• Ensures data consistency and integrity during the integration process, performing data validation and cleaning as needed. 

• Ensure the reliability and scalability of near real-time data pipelines. 

• Optimize data pipelines and data processing workflows for performance, scalability, and efficiency. 

• Monitors and tunes data systems, identifies and resolves performance bottlenecks, and implements caching and indexing strategies to enhance query performance. 

• Takes authority, responsibility, and accountability for exploiting the value of enterprise information assets and of the analytics used to render insights for decision making automated decisions and augmentation of human performance. 

• Works with Director of Data and Analytics and other leaders to establish the vision for managing data as a business capability. 

Advanced Analytics & Insights 

• Transforms raw data into a usable format by applying data cleansing, aggregation, filtering, and enrichment techniques. 

• Leverage advanced analytics to drive business insights.  

• Collaborate closely with data analysts to ensure data accuracy and integrity, and help in translating complex data into clear, actionable insights. 

Compliance and Risk Management 

• Establishes the governance of data and algorithms used for analysis, analytical applications, and automated decision making. 

• Implements data quality checks and validations within data pipelines to ensure the accuracy, consistency, and completeness of data. 

Cross-Functional Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement 

• Ability to collaborate within and across teams of different technical knowledge to support delivery and educate end users on data products. 

• Collaborates with business analysts to optimize models and algorithms for data quality, security, and governance. 

• Partner with various departments and business groups across the organization to understand their data needs and translate them into data solutions.  

• Liaise with stakeholders across the organization, including executives, product managers, software developers, data analysts, data scientists, to define data requirements, and ensure data strategies and solutions align with organizational objectives. 

What You Will Bring to Graco

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, software engineering, information systems, or related quantitative field

• 5+ years of work experience in data management disciplines, including data integration, modeling, governance, security, optimization and quality, or other areas directly relevant to data engineering responsibilities and tasks 

• Expert knowledge in technologies such as Fivetran, Kafka, Airflow, and Spark to build scalable and efficient data pipelines. 

• Ability to design, build, and deploy data solutions that capture, explore, transform, and utilize data to support AI, ML, and BI. 

• Proficient in programming and data science languages such as Java and Python, SQL, R, SAS. 

• Proficiency in the design and implementation of modern data architectures and concepts like cloud services (AWS, Azure) and modern data platforms like Snowflake. 

• Strong knowledge of data modeling, data warehousing, ETL and ELT processes. 

• Proficiency in dbt analytics code design and implementation is required.

• Strong understanding of data governance, data quality and data security best practices

Accelerators

• Global industrial manufacturing experience and knowledge.

• MBA or Master’s degree preferred

• Expert problem-solving skills, including debugging skills, allowing the determination of sources of issues in unfamiliar code or systems, and the ability to recognize and solve repetitive problems. 

• Excellent business acumen and interpersonal skills; able to work across business lines at a senior level to influence and effect change to achieve common goals. 

• Ability to describe business use cases/outcomes, data sources and management concepts, and analytical approaches/options. 

• Ability to translate among the languages used by executives, business stakeholders and IT. 

• Passion for technology innovation, continuous learning and driving business success through technological excellence. 

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At Graco, you truly make a difference. Your unique talents contribute to our organizational growth and future. Not only do you make a difference, but Graco’s culture empowers employees to create their own career path. Whether you choose to advance within your current department or explore new opportunities in different divisions, you have the ability to build your future. Our managers are here to provide support and guidance as you continue to grow within your career.

Graco has excellent opportunities available to individuals who want to be part of a fast-moving, growing company that is committed to quality, innovation and solving fluid handling problems for our customers. Graco is proud to be named a Best Place to Work by Fortune Magazine in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021 & 2022. Graco offers attractive compensation, benefits and career development opportunities. Graco’s comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, stock purchase plan, 401(k), tuition reimbursement and more.

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The base pay range for this position is listed below, exclusive of fringe benefits or other compensation.  If you are hired, your final base hourly rate will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, competencies, education, and/or experience.  In addition to those factors, we will also consider internal equity of our current employees.  Please keep in mind that the range provided is the full base salary range for the role.  Hiring at or near the maximum of the range would not be typical to allow for future and continued salary growth.