Senior Data Engineer
- Operations & Trialing
- Durham, NC
- Syngenta Seeds
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Be a member of an innovative team working in a collaborative DataOps environment assembled from data engineers, data scientists, visualization and analytics experts drawn from IT and R&D teams. Relationship building, collaboration and influencing will be key in an environment of data complexity and difficult data integration challenges.
Accountabilities
- Support an analytical data infrastructure providing application, tool and ad-hoc access to large datasets consisting of complex data types including genomic, phenotypic, environmental, image and geospatial data.
- Lead, coach and develop more junior engineers and IT professionals.
- Engage with business stakeholders to understand strategic roadmaps and build a technical strategy to support them.
- Interface with DevOps teams to extract, load and transform data from a wide variety of data sources using big data technologies in AWS cloud including Glue, EMR, and Lambda.
- Deploy high value, high performance datasets in Snowflake.
- Creation and support of real-time data pipelines built on AWS technologies including Glue, S3, Lambda, EMR, EventBridge, Athena, Kinesis, and IoT Core.
- Embed quality and intelligent reporting capabilities into data pipelines including detection of anomalies and changes in trends with meaningful alerts and statistics.
- Continual research of the latest big data and visualization technologies to provide new capabilities and increase efficiency.
- Collaborate with data scientists and other tech teams to implement advanced analytics algorithms into our data pipelines that exploit our rich datasets for statistical analysis, prediction, clustering and machine learning.
- Help continually improve automation and simplifying data as a service.
- Degree in computer science, information science, engineering, mathematics or related technical discipline.
- 8+ years of industry experience in software development, data engineering, business intelligence, data science, or related field with a track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets.
- Strong experience with data integration (ETL/ELT) concepts.
- Experience building/operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets
- Knowledge of, and experience with data transformation technologies and tools
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL technologies
- Desire to work with Agile/DataOps practices and methodologies
- Experience with continuous integration practices
- Able to write, debug, unit test, and performance test data integration processes
- Able to clearly define data quality issues
- Strong problem solving/critical thinking skills
- Ability to lead, mentor and coach other engineers
- Ability to communicate with, and influence, senior stakeholders
Additional Knowledge, Skills, Traits & Abilities:
- Relational databases including Amazon RD.
- AWS technologies including Redshift/Spectrum, S3/parquet, Glue, EMR, Lambda
- Data streaming technologies (Kinesis, Kafka) desirable
- IoT pipelines (AWS IoT Core, Kinesis) desirable
- Geospatial data manipulation and storage desirable
- Python and Java programming
- R and statistical methods
- Business rules engines such as Drools a plus
- Data modeling and virtualization
- Machine learning
- Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts the same day you do
- 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution
- Paid Vacation, 9 Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts among others
- A culture that promotes work/life balance, celebrates diversity, and offers numerous family-oriented events throughout the year
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