Data Engineer Lead

Grainger is a leading broad line distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom. We achieve our purpose, We Keep the World Working®, by serving more than 4.5 million customers with a wide range of products that keep their operations running and their people safe. Grainger also delivers services and solutions, such as technical support and inventory management, to save customers time and money.

We're looking for passionate people who can move our company forward. As one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, we have a welcoming workplace where you can build a career for yourself while fulfilling our purpose to keep the world working. We embrace new ways of thinking and recognize everyone is an individual. Find your way with Grainger today.

Position Details:

As Lead Data Engineer, you will work with senior leaders within Customer Strategy & Marketing and across Grainger to bring data-driven transformation to life. By supporting the end-to-end realization of our goals you will help guide Grainger's growth strategies, analytical approaches, technical implementations, and standardized processes. By making relevant customer information available, we help Grainger market, sell, and deliver the best products and solutions that meet the needs of our customers. You will report to the Director, Customer Information Design & Segment Research.

• Build and deploy scalable and reliable data pipelines, tool kits, and packages to help partners to centralize high quality, large, complex data sets from multiple business application, databases, and offline sources to cloud platforms for quicker strategy formulation, hypothesis testing, and work selection
• Collaborate with technology and partners (analytics, marketing, software engineering, data engineering and others) to identify high impact opportunities to transform the way Grainger gets things done with differentiated data about customers
• Support iterative improvements to CI concepts and data structures so we can serve partners the best information we have today, persist past insights, and accommodate future enhancements
• Solve complex unstructured problems based on high-level guidance from Grainger leaders to inform data and process designs
• Keep informed of Data Engineering best practices and latest technologies to solve problems with the best solution
• Conceptualize process systems and their relationships to enable end-to-end thinking and to ensure efficient work execution at scale
• Work with partners to understand the problem space, identify opportunities, and translate said problems into technical solutions using modern data engineering frameworks and best practices
• Provide leadership implementing general IT concepts, strategies, methodologies, modern application and data engineering architectures and approaches.

• 5+ years post-undergraduate experience
• Technical and analytical proficiency using data tools (e.g. SQL, R/Python, Snowflake, Airflow, Kubernetes, or CircleCI)
• Experience proposing blueprint solutions, defining and enabling architectures for enterprise data platforms using modern data engineering solutions

With benefits starting day one, Grainger is committed to your safety, health and wellbeing. Our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet our team members' individual needs. Check out some of the rewards available to you at Grainger

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
• Paid time off (PTO) and 6 company holidays per year
• Automatic 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay period
• Employee discounts, parental leave, 3:1 match on donations and tuition reimbursement
• A comprehensive set of emotional, financial, physical and social wellbeing programs

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

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