Data Engineer

Job Description Summary: As a Data Engineer at Green Plains, you will develop, create, and modify data engineering applications software or specialized data pipeline utility programs. With a primary focus on trading and financial risk data and processes, this high-visibility role offers an exciting opportunity to create processes that have immediate and significant impact. We are looking for people who are passionate about using their skills to develop and deploy solutions in creative, and insightful ways. This opportunity involves defining the path to discover trends, patterns and hidden insights while collaborating with innovators who are passionate about creating renewable, sustainable, high-value ingredients.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Identify, evaluate, and recommend emerging technologies and technology service providers that will improve the business. Provide data architectural direction and oversite to create a holistic view of the data strategy, data processes, and data assets.
• Develop new and maintain existing data pipelines and automations focused primarily on the needs Trade and Risk department reporting and analytics
• Serve as a data entrepreneur leading the transformation of historical data structures and business data, extract meaning out of data, and create an enterprise data model
• Develop and implement repeatable processes that drive consistent and sustainable reporting and descriptive analytics workflows and support data literacy for analytics practitioners.
• Creates and supports ad hoc reports, dashboards, visualizations and interactive applications that support data-driven decisions.
• Research and properly evaluate sources of information to determine possible limitations in reliability or usability
• Adhere to all established procedures, policies and safety rules as outlined by the Company
• Perform all other assigned tasks and requirements as needed

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or greater in a quantitative field, such as Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance/Accounting, or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years IT experience, with a preference for breadth of domains, technologies, and roles, with depth in data governance, modeling, management, and integration.
• Highly experienced in working with SQL data sources (Primarily MS SQL Server). Skilled at database design, development, and optimization.
• Proficient in Python data scripting, ETL/ELT orchestration, and data wrangling.
• Self-driven to continuously learn new skills and find creative solutions
• Ability to analyze and produce ad hoc reports and/or visualizations. ( MicroStrategy experience is ideal, but translatable skills in other technologies such as Power BI, Tableau, Sisense will be considered )
• Ability to challenge conventional technology wisdom.
• Strong background in process optimization, control, and improvement
• Strong leadership, negotiation, and consensus-building skills with business and technical groups.

Preferred:

• Experience in commodities and trading
• Data analytics programming such as in Python or R
• Experience with cloud database and storage technologies.
• Software engineering background – Python web-apps, C# are part of our environment
• Experience with DAG orchestration technologies. io preferred but not mandatory
• Experience in risk and compliance

Green Plains Inc. offers competitive pay: a generous benefit package including business casual work environment, health, dental, vision, life insurance, paid holidays, Paid Time Off (PTO) and a 401(k)-retirement plan with immediate vesting and company safe harbor matching. All potential employees of Green Plains Inc. will be required to successfully pass a pre-employment drug screening and background check prior to employment.

Equal Opportunity Employer

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Other duties may be assigned.

Company Description
Green Plains Inc. (NASDAQ:GPRE) is a leading biorefining company focused on the development and utilization of fermentation, agricultural and biological technologies in the processing of annually renewable crops into sustainable value-added ingredients. This includes the production of cleaner low carbon biofuels, renewable feedstocks for advanced biofuels and high purity alcohols for use in cleaners and disinfectants. Green Plains is an innovative producer of Ultra-High Protein and novel ingredients for animal and aquaculture diets to help satisfy a growing global appetite for sustainable protein. The Company also owns a 48.9% limited partner interest and a 2.0% general partner interest in Green Plains Partners LP.