Intermediate Data Engineer

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Using their inquisitiveness, tenacity, and willingness to learn, this person will help develop the GFS Data Platform consisting of the data lake, analytics, enterprise data warehouse, and visualization tools.   Ability to follow the teams technical direction by writing high quality code and following modern design principles.

Builds data solutions in an agile and incremental manner and is an active participant in all team ceremonies.  Has the ability to understand complex architecture and engineering designs and the skill to help implement them.  Understands the business problem they are trying to solve and can appropriately apply technology to help solve it.

Has strong personal skills to develop relationships with peers on their team and stakeholders.

Essential Functions:

• Follow the technical strategy and direction for the Data Platform environment at GFS, including tools, techniques, and processes.

• Help design and build technology solutions across multiple initiatives at the same time.

• Collaborate with others on the team to rapidly prototype and implement technical architectures to deliver insightful solutions.

• Understand the business analytics problems the company faces and help build solutions that solve them.

• Work on a high-performing team focused on results and relationships.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities:

• Experience writing software at a large enterprise.

• Experienced in modern data movement technologies (e.g. serverless, real-time, as needed computing, low latency data movement, high volume data management, etc...).

• Experience handling devops tasks to deliver code quickly with a high degree of confidence and quality.

• Experience in understanding and developing complex data models

• Business Influence - Experience in empathizing with users and adjusting the technical solution to solve their problems.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with one or many cloud computing providers (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure).

• Preferred tool experience include but not limited to BigQuery and Dataform/DBT and VertexAI.

• Knowledge of data governance, expectations and leading practices.

• Experience evaluating alternate solutions to a technical problem while considering the cost and benefit.

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