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Data Engineer
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Job Description
Job purpose/summary
This role will provide you with the opportunity to play an integral part in providing enterprise-wide insights that are both operational and strategic and impact across all levels of the business. This role offers challenges across a wide variety of projects and responsibilities, including the opportunity to influence the future direction of the department and systems used across the business. This role is responsible for the use and development of data sources, and proof of concept business solutions to support business user needs.
Duties and responsibilities
The ideal candidate will be responsible for:
- Building a big data strategy for various platforms and supporting data management functions for business needs
- Providing technical assistance in identifying and integrating appropriate technology solutions for data and knowledge management
- Developing strong working relationships with functions across the organization to identify and vet database engineering priorities based on key business requirements
- Identifying new ways of improving data infrastructure and big data technology to solve business problems along the way
- Identifying areas that could benefit from business process improvements, proposing enhancements, and working with colleagues within and outside of the teams to implement them
- Developing innovative data solutions utilizing a variety of database tools, which provide analysis, reporting, and integration solutions
- Performing data collection, analysis, and interpretation to identify process or system gaps for system automation
- Developing data management processes
- Developing resilient, scalable, and future proof data services to meet user needs
Competencies
The ideal candidate will demonstrate competencies in the following areas:
- Creating technical documentation supporting sharing of understanding and flow of data quality management process
- Building data expertise and owning data quality
- Assessing design and technical requirements for specific business and operational applications and developing coding standards, source code, and software designs that meet and exceed the requirements of the application
- Requiring technical expertise regarding data models, master data management, data warehousing, marketing attribution, and data quality improvement
- Providing subject matter expertise in data and software engineering
- Defining required data integration requirements between various systems and work with extended team to get them created
- Playing an active role in improving the end-to-end data
- Understanding the intricacies of business processes
- Business Process Integration
- Process Management
- IT Management
- IT Service Management
- Quality Management System
- Data Development
- Data Management
- IT Asset Management
- Business Performance Management
- Business Process Improvement
- Technology Management
- Master Data Management
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library
- Time Management
- Change Management
Tools and Technologies
- Web-based software
- Embedded services
- Microsoft SQL Server
- SQL Server Management Studio
- SQL Server Integration Services
- SQL Server Analysis Services
- Microsoft Windows Server
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Technologies
- Microsoft Operating Systems
- Microsoft Active Directory
- Microsoft Project
- Oracle Database
- Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft Excel
- Core Java
- Oracle Data Guard
Reporting relationship
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Direct reports (if appropriate)
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Qualifications
Education
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Certifications
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Other relevant qualifications
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Key Attributes
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Experience
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Working conditions (if required)
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Physical requirements (if appropriate)
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