NFI Industries

Principal Data Engineer

Job description

The NFI Data and Analytics group is looking for a Principal Data Engineer based in the Camden New Jersey headquarters to join our growing team to support NFI’s needs for data driven analytics. Guided by NFI’s shared values, we work in an environment where collaboration, teamwork, respect, and openness are highly valued.

The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of data architecture technologies, high throughput data processing, and big data platforms. High level responsibilities will include designing, creating, deploying and managing data architectures, storage, integration, and consumption of enterprise data managed by different data entities and IT systems, as well as any applications using or processing that data.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Translate business needs into long-term data architecture solutions

Design and develop object and data models and data repositories structured for optimized management and high performance access.

Lead the implementation of enterprise data architectures

Work closely with other Data Engineers, IT managers, and developers to ensure understanding and support of data architecture priorities

Define, design, and build dimensional databases and data pipelines to support analytics projects

Partner with various teams to define and execute data acquisition, transformation, processing and make data actionable for operational and analytics initiatives

Review, test, and troubleshoot database structures and code

Develop strategies for data acquisitions, archive, recovery, and implementation

Create prototypes and proofs of concept for iterative development

Deliver end-to-end analytics projects from data ingest through data visualization

Develop, communicate, and present solutions architectures to both business and technical stakeholders

Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize performance of enterprise data pipelines and data repositories

Provide technical guidance and support to developers, data engineers, and data administrators

Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related discipline.

10+ years of professional technical experience with 5+ years in data engineering and analytics technologies including ETL and BI

Expertise leading technical teams in the implementation of end-to-end enterprise data solutions

Good knowledge of enterprise data environments, which include database design, metadata infrastructure, and business analytics

Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing structured enterprise and analytic data engineering solutions

Advanced database development skills and experience

Knowledge of UML and object-oriented design

In-depth knowledge with enterprise data implementation methodologies, and technologies with prior experience delivering full suite implementations.

Knowledge of Agile common frameworks

Demonstrated experience and knowledge in database concepts and large-scale database design

Experience developing flexible data ingest and enrichment pipelines to easily accommodate new and existing data sources

Good knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server and/or Oracle.

Ability to communicate complex technical terminology, concepts and issues in terms understandable to technical and non-technical audiences

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Strong interpersonal skills to resolve problems in a professional manner by leading working groups to negotiate and create consensus

Self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit

Experience masking and replicating large data sets, a plus

Engineering unstructured datasets in a cloud environment, a plus

Java / R/ Python, Big data, IoT, and Data science, a plus

Distribution or Transportation Logistics experience, a plus

The health and wellbeing of our employees is of utmost importance to NFI. As a result, obtaining a full regimen of the COVID-19 vaccine is required to perform this role. If you are hired, we will require you to: 1) prove that you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19; or, 2) demonstrate that you have a valid religious or medical reason not to be vaccinated and can still perform the essential functions of your role with a reasonable accommodation.

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of NFI about this opening. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at NFI via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of NFI, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by NFI for this position and a valid agreement with NFI is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the NFI agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.

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