Senior Data Operations Engineer

Company Description

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too. When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team who are empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone is encouraged and empowered to be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength. Explore life at Fortune Brands here

Job Description

We are seeking a skilled lead Data Ops Engineer with expertise in Data Ops or Data Engineering, SQL, system automation, and Python to join our team.  Responsibilities include designing the proper data architecture, implementing automation, and be the mentor and leader for the Data & Analytics team. Join us to drive innovation and operational excellence as we navigate the cutting edge. 

Enjoy remote work with the option to engage at our Deerfield office. This role offers career growth and leadership opportunities.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

What you will be doing:

Data Ops and Engineering:

• Focus on Snowflake administration:
  • Tasks
  • Shares
  • Integrations
  • Ingestion
  • Actions
  • RBAC
  • Optimizations
  • FinOps
• Utilize Git for version control and collaboration on codebase.
• Help design a scalable, reliable, and secure data architecture.
• Build and integrate ELT and ETL workflows into our production environment.
• Support and maintain existing legacy pipelines (Oracle, SQLServer, others).
• Establish observability tools and practices to monitor deployment processes, data integrity, and system health.

Technical Leadership:

• Identify opportunities to modernize our systems and tech stack, improve quality, and minimize technical debt.
• Review team’s work, code, and architecture.
• Articulate and lead technical issues, constraints, and risks; involve in critical decision-making in the data & analytics domain.
• Be a role model for organizing and documenting critical information for the team.
• Document procedures, configurations, and best practices to ensure knowledge sharing and repeatability of processes.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Technical Expertise
  • 5+ years of experience in Data Ops or Data Engineering.
  • Hands-on experience in writing highly complex SQL code, preferably in a legacy system such as Oracle or SQLServer, as well as Snowflake.
  • Intermediate expertise in Git and the integration of version control in a development lifecycle process.
  • Intermediate to advanced knowledge in data pipeline development.
  • Proficient in writing clean, robust Python code using coding best practices.
  • Experience with prompt engineering, especially using GitHub Copilot to co-author SQL queries and Python code.
  • Bonus: SnowPro Certification (or more advanced)

Leadership Skills:

• Excellent communication skills for discussing complex technical issues with engineers and translating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to decompose complex technical challenges and produce pragmatic solutions.
• Ability to adapt and balance delivery, attention to detail with constraints and pragmatism.

Join us in this exciting role to shape the future of our data integration initiatives, improve processes, and drive impactful results. Your expertise will contribute to the success of our growing Data and Analytics organization.

Additional Information

Additional Information:

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $130,000 USD - $165,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan.

At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays per policy), inclusive fertility / adoption benefits, and more. We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates’ feeling of belonging at work.

Fortune Brands is a brand, innovation and channel leader focused on exciting, supercharged categories in the home products, security and commercial building markets. Our portfolio of brands includes Moen, House of Rohl, Aqualisa, SpringWell, Therma-Tru, Larson, Fiberon, Master Lock, SentrySafe and Yale residential.

Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN=

Equal Employment Opportunity:

FBIN is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. To support our efforts, we invite you to voluntarily share your gender, ethnicity, and veteran status. This information is confidential and helps us ensure an inclusive hiring process and improve our diversity initiatives.

Reasonable Accommodations:

FBIN is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please contact us at fbinleave.fbhs@fbin.com and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information. Resumes submitted to this email address will not be responded to.