Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. C.H. Robinson is seeking a Senior Data Engineer role as a technical leadership role on a software development team. The successful candidate will work closely with engineering product managers and business stakeholders to design strategic data solutions, drive innovation, and mentor other engineers.
Responsibilities
- Analyze and translate high-level customer requirements into detailed designs to solve complex business problems
- Design solutions that align to the long-term plan for a service or product based on deep expertise and customer insights
- Partner with various engineering teams to create and manage a long-term data and information architecture and execution roadmap for a product or service
- Define data solutions and develop code across multiple products or services, as well as, influence or drive architectural changes
- Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure; draw from a large base of design patterns, is an expert in available technologies, and is adept at identifying practices that work well
- Identify code across multiple code bases to optimize, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability while ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment
- Lead code reviews across the product or service, understand the root causes of issues, and find ways to resolve them
- Proactively identify performance and availability issues, troubleshoot, provide effective options, and resolve issues in production that could span multiple product areas
- Develop and maintain thorough architectural documentation for the product or service
- Design products or services by using secure programming patterns and by finding, fixing, and enhancing security in existing applications
- Ensure security best practices are part of design and implementation of new features and applications
- Estimate for projects that span multiple product areas including work, time, resources and skill needs
- Proactively identify technologies or solutions that differ from current technology stack or represent innovative uses of existing technologies
- Construct and deliver proposed solution strategies for potential new technologies and work with architecture to review and approve proposals
- Mentor and coach other engineers by participating in design and code reviews and share best practices; proactively seek mentorship from others
- Lead the effort in defining the engineering lifecycle and practices for team and associated teams in partnership with the principal data engineer
- Drive collaboration across multiple teams; find ways accomplish more by enabling others
- Anticipate business needs and present options to leadership and business stakeholders with product managers
- Other duties or responsibilities as assigned according to the team and/or country specific requirements
Skills
- 6+ years of experience developing and implementing commercial software across several platforms while leveraging a variety of programming languages
- Experience in owning and delivering projects and results of increasing technical complexity
- Experience working on large-scale data sets in a commercial environment
- Experience building and modeling data in relational and non-relational data storage technologies including schema design, stored procedure development and performance and optimization techniques (e.g. SQL Server, Postgres, Mongo, Cosmos, etc.)
- Experience implementing and designing data acquisition, data curation, and data analysis
- Experience with unit, integration, and acceptance testing
- Experience with version control systems (ex. GIT, GitHub, TFS, etc.)
- Experience with HTTP and REST architecture
- Experience with CI/CD continuous integration / continuous deployment practices
- Experience orchestrating data transformation through cloud native platforms (ex. Azure, AWS, GCP)
- Experience with data streaming architecture and frameworks (Kafka, ESB)
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IS, MIS, or other technology degree or minimum of 4 years of equivalent work experience and high school diploma/GED
- Experience working on large-scale open source or inner source software development
- Experience in system integration projects or global projects
- Experience with machine learning models and data science solutions
- Experience with modern development languages (e.g. .Net CORE, C#, Java)
- Experience with thin-client development (e.g. HTML/CSS, JavaScript, JS frameworks)
- Possess solid communication skills and strong customer focus
- Effective collaborator, experienced in creating technical partnerships across teams
- Able to learn and understand the various technical domains across the enterprise and able to communicate complex technical and business concepts across the enterprise and various business stakeholders
- Experience directly or indirectly leading high performing teams with the ability to assess and grow software engineering talent
- Proven track record of effectively delivering results in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities
- Values a diverse and inclusive work environment
Benefits
- Three medical plans which include
- + Prescription drug coverage
- + Enhanced Fertility benefits
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Account (including employer contribution)
- Dental and Vision
- Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Paid observed holidays
- 2 paid floating holidays for U.S. hourly employees
- Flexible Time Off (FTO) offered to U.S. salaried employees — no accruals and no caps. Paid Time Off (PTO) offered to all other employees in the U.S. and Canada
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time off to volunteer in your community
- Charitable Giving Match Program
- 401(k) with 6% company matching
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Plus a broad range of career development, networking, and team-building opportunities
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