Data Engineer II

Woodward’s Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Commitment

At Woodward, no matter where you are from, your physical appearance, or how you identify, you deserve the opportunity to reach your greatest potential.  We are on a journey to achieve this as an organization and want to work closely with our members to set the right path.

We humbly acknowledge this will be an imperfect journey.  Yet, we are steadfastly committed to embracing the power of diverse people, perspectives and experiences for our current members, attracting the best talent across our communities, and creating an inclusive and rewarding workplace for all.

Woodward supports our members’ wellbeing and regularly benchmarks with other companies in our industry to offer an extensive Total Reward package for this position. Salary will be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. 

• Estimated annual base pay:  $72,800.00(minimum) - $91,000.00(midpoint) - $109,200.00(maximum)
  • All members included in annual cash bonus opportunity 
  • 401(k) match (4.5%)
  • Annual Woodward stock contribution (5%)
  • Tuition reimbursement and Training/Professional Development opportunities for all members  

• 12 paid holidays, including floating holidays 
• Industry leading medical, dental, and vision Insurance upon date of hire

• Vacation / Sick Time / Vacation Buy-up / Short Term Disability / Bereavement leave 
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption Assistance  
• Employee Assistance Program, including mental health benefits 
• Member Life & AD&D / Long Term Disability / Member Optional Life 
• Member referral bonus 

• Spouse / Child Optional Life / Optional AD&D / Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending 
• Voluntary benefits, including:  

• Home / Auto Insurance discounts 
• Whole Life Insurance / Critical Illness Insurance / Legal Assistance / Military Leave 

Are you ready to make your mark?  If you’re a Data Engineer II, we have an exciting opportunity for you.  The Data Engineer job plays a critical role in managing data workflows and ensuring that data is accessible, reliable, and ready for analysis. This intermediate level position supports and is responsible for design, construction, and maintenance of systems and architecture for collecting, storing, and analyzing large sets of data. The purpose of this role is to support modeling, machine learning and AI activities while collaborating with various stakeholders and informing.

What You Will Be Doing 

• Business & Data Understanding: Supports and informs the use-case development process using knowledge of Woodward data sources, data systems, and processes. Responsible for devising and proposing features that may serve the use-case, including the methods by which the features can be generated from the data. Responsible for maintaining the quality and completeness of use-case screening and justification documentation.
• Model Development (Data Preparation): Supports and designs the processing of enterprise and production data into a format required for data science and data analyst applications. Responsible for the generalization and abstraction of feature inputs to Data Science algorithms. Responsible for creating and maintaining data pipelines to support the data science process.
• Model Development: Observes and oversees model development efforts with Data Scientists and Senior (4-5) Data Engineers
• Model Operations: Supports, reviews and oversees data science applications in collaboration with the data scientist. Support the MLOps process life-cycle.
• Machine Learning Quality Assurance: Supports and responsible for the identification of requirements and constraints at each stage of the data science lifecycle.
• Data Curation and Maintenance: Performs ETL tasks to appropriate systems, fulfilling requirements from Data Scientists and Analysts. Develops and maintains accessible datasets.
• Data Quality Assurance and Delivery: Ensures the on time delivery of context appropriate data for data scientists and analysts. Maintains repository of code and documentation.

What We Are Looking For 

• US – Bachelor's Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Math, Computer Science, Engineering (i.e. Electrical: Signal Processing) and other STEM fields or other degrees with a statistical modeling focus (i.e. Economics) required. Experience in lieu of a degree accepted
• 2-5 years Intermediate knowledge of: Data-Ops, DB & SQL, ERP & Enterprise Systems, Services, ETL Tools and Methods, Cloud Technologies, Programming, DevOps / MLOps required
• Intermediate knowledge of Data-Ops/ETL Tools and Methods
• Strong understanding of common data technologies DB & SQL
• Intermediate knowledge of ERP & Enterprise Systems Services
• Intermediate knowledge of development technologies (Cloud Technologies
• Intermediate programming skills (Python, Matlab, R)
• Intermediate understanding of project management skills, testing/deployment of models, ticketing/debugging, version control, modeling of deployed models
• Demonstrates collaboration, communication and presentation skills
• Prioritization, organization and time management skills
• Intermediate problem solving skills; teamwork approach to developing solutions

Woodward is an independent designer, manufacturer, and service provider of control solutions for the aerospace and energy markets. Our aerospace systems and components optimize the performance of fixed wing and rotorcraft platforms in commercial, business and military aircraft, ground vehicles and other equipment. Our energy-related systems and components enhance the performance of industrial gas and steam turbines, reciprocating engines, compressors, wind turbines, electrical grids and other energy-related industrial equipment. The company’s innovative fluid energy, combustion control, electrical energy, and motion control systems help customers offer cleaner, more reliable and more efficient equipment. Our customers include leading original equipment manufacturers and end users of their products.

Application window is anticipated to close 30 days from original posting date.

This information is provided in compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act and is the company’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the compensation range and benefits offered for this position.  The compensation offered to the successful applicant may vary based on factors including experience, skills, education, location, and other job-related reasons. 

This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR).   All applicants must be U.S. Persons within the meaning of the ITAR and EAR, or eligible to obtain all required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce.   The ITAR defines a U.S. Person as a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident (i.e., 'Green Card holder'), or a protected person (e.g., asylee, or refugee).

Woodward is an Equal Opportunity Employer 

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