Data Engineer

Job Summary

The primary purpose of this role is to translate business requirements and functional specifications into logical program designs and to deliver modules, stable application systems, and Data or Platform solutions. This includes developing, configuring, or modifying integrated business and/or enterprise infrastructure or application solutions within various computing environments. This role facilitates the implementation and maintenance of business and enterprise Data or Platform solutions to ensure successful deployment of released applications.

What You Will Do

• Helps develop integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions to ensure specifications are flexible, scalable, and maintainable, and meet architectural standards
• Ensures good unit testing and functional testing coverage accounting for all boundary conditions according to the System Integration Test plan
• Supports User Acceptance Testing, helps the team in cross-functional application initiatives by providing insight to business teams in order to ensure appropriate depth of the test coverage on non-functional requirements
• Participates in all software development lifecycle phases by applying company and industry methodologies (Agile and Kanban), policies, standards, and controls
• Follows best source control and continuous integration and continuous deployment (CICD) practices for efficient testing and deployment of code to different environments
• Displays understanding of Data or Platform solutions; assists in resolution of production incidents along with Root Cause Analysis
• Understands and uses standardized engineering patterns across the organization
• Data Engineering Responsibilities:
• Works in a team to define and design a data lake / data solution to meet business needs.
• Establishes data pipelines to move data between different operational systems, transactional systems, streaming systems, and big data systems (on-prem or cloud)
• Uses deep understanding of SQL to implement defined business metrics in partnership with technical leads, data analysts and product owners
• Implements transformation logic to aggregate, filter and combine multiple datasets to provide essential business consumable datasets and metrics.
• Helps meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for analytical datasets and business metrics
• Data Analytics Responsibilities:
• Helps in getting the data sets and metrics required to drive insights sought by business; analyzes and organizes data
• Helps develop, design, maintain, and enhance operational, analytical (including self-serve) applications across various business domains; deliver reports on-prem and cloud infrastructure; uses frameworks and reusable components whenever possible
• Demonstrates database skills by writing views for business requirements; uses freeform SQLs and pass-through functions; analyzes and finds errors from SQL generation; creates RSD and dashboard
• Contributes to the ad-hoc analytics performance and meet SLAs
• Reviews queries and output for Data Analytics for its correctness and completeness
• Helps in getting the data sets, metrics required to drive insights sought by business; analyzes and organizes data
• Platform Engineering Responsibilities:
• Troubleshoots system issues, helps in root cause analysis, and drafts reports that provide insight into system support activities; ensures conformance of the technology solutions with IT Governance and regulatory frameworks
• Helps implementing infrastructure-related projects for the organization
• Understands networking (subnetting, routing, VPC/VNet, security groups, load balancing, etc.)
• Moves jobs/applications across platforms like on-prem to public cloud or other way; supports on prem and cloud integration activities; provides 3rd level server, storage, IaaS, PaaS, and other infrastructure related support
• Participates in innovation in big data capabilities through research and hands-on practice
  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, CIS, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field)
• 2 years of experience in Data, BI or Platform Engineering, Data Warehousing/ETL, or Software Engineering
• 1 year of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (SDLC)
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field
• 2 years of IT experience developing and implementing business systems within an organization
• 4 years of experience working with defect or incident tracking software
• 4 years of experience with technical documentation in a software development environment
• 2 years of experience working with an IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework
• 2 years of experience leading teams, with or without direct reports
• Experience with application and integration middleware
• Experience with database technologies
  
  

Data Engineering

• 2 years of experience in Hadoop or any Cloud Bigdata components (specific to the Data Engineering role)
• Expertise in Java/Scala/Python, SQL, Scripting, Teradata, Hadoop (Sqoop, Hive, Pig, Map Reduce), Spark (Spark Streaming, MLib), Kafka or equivalent Cloud Bigdata components (specific to the Data Engineering role)
  
  

BI Engineering

• Expertise in MicroStrategy/Power BI/SQL, Scripting, Teradata or equivalent RDBMS, Hadoop (OLAP on Hadoop), Dashboard development, Mobile development (specific to the BI Engineering role)
  
  

Platform Engineering

• 2 years of experience in Hadoop, NO-SQL, RDBMS or any Cloud Bigdata components, Teradata, MicroStrategy (specific to the Platform Engineering role)
• Expertise in Python, SQL, Scripting, Teradata, Hadoop utilities like Sqoop, Hive, Pig, Map Reduce, Spark, Ambari, Ranger, Kafka or equivalent Cloud Bigdata components (specific to the Platform Engineering role)
  
  

About Lowe’s

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2023 sales of more than $86 billion, Lowe’s operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.

Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.

Pay Range: $75,300.00 - $143,100.00 annually Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits.