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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