[Hiring] Senior Data Engineer @C.H. Robinson

Role Description

• Analyze and translate high-level customer requirements into detailed designs to solve complex business problems.
• Design solutions that align to the long-term plan for a service or product based on deep expertise and customer insights.
• Partner with various engineering teams to create and manage a long-term data and information architecture and execution roadmap for a product or service.
• Define data solutions and develop code across multiple products or services, as well as influence or drive architectural changes.
• Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure; draw from a large base of design patterns, is an expert in available technologies, and is adept at identifying practices that work well.
• Identify code across multiple code bases to optimize, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability while ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment.
• Lead code reviews across the product or service, understand the root causes of issues, and find ways to resolve them.
• Proactively identify performance and availability issues, troubleshoot, provide effective options, and resolve issues in production that could span multiple product areas.
• Develop and maintain thorough architectural documentation for the product or service.
• Design products or services by using secure programming patterns and by finding, fixing, and enhancing security in existing applications.
• Ensure security best practices are part of design and implementation of new features and applications.
• Estimate for projects that span multiple product areas including work, time, resources, and skill needs.
• Proactively identify technologies or solutions that differ from current technology stack or represent innovative uses of existing technologies.
• Construct and deliver proposed solution strategies for potential new technologies and work with architecture to review and approve proposals.
• Mentor and coach other engineers by participating in design and code reviews and share best practices; proactively seek mentorship from others.
• Lead the effort in defining the engineering lifecycle and practices for team and associated teams in partnership with the principal data engineer.
• Drive collaboration across multiple teams; find ways to accomplish more by enabling others.
• Anticipate business needs and present options to leadership and business stakeholders with product managers.
• Other duties or responsibilities as assigned according to the team and/or country specific requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IS, MIS, or other technology degree or minimum of 4 years of equivalent work experience and high school diploma/GED.
• Minimum 6 years of experience developing and implementing commercial software across several platforms while leveraging a variety of programming languages.
• Experience in owning and delivering projects and results of increasing technical complexity.
• Experience working on large-scale data sets in a commercial environment.
• Experience building and modeling data in relational and non-relational data storage technologies including schema design, stored procedure development and performance and optimization techniques (e.g. SQL Server, Postgres, Mongo, Cosmos, etc.).
• Experience implementing and designing data acquisition, data curation, and data analysis.
• Experience with unit, integration, and acceptance testing.
• Experience with version control systems (ex. GIT, GitHub, TFS, etc.).
• Experience with HTTP and REST architecture.
• Experience with CI/CD continuous integration / continuous deployment practices.
• Experience orchestrating data transformation through cloud native platforms (ex. Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Experience with data streaming architecture and frameworks (Kafka, ESB).

Requirements

• Experience working on large-scale open source or inner source software development.
• Experience in system integration projects or global projects.
• Experience with machine learning models and data science solutions.
• Experience with modern development languages (e.g. .Net CORE, C#, Java).
• Experience with thin-client development (e.g. HTML/CSS, JavaScript, JS frameworks).
• Possess solid communication skills and strong customer focus.
• Effective collaborator, experienced in creating technical partnerships across teams.
• Able to learn and understand the various technical domains across the enterprise and able to communicate complex technical and business concepts across the enterprise and various business stakeholders.
• Experience directly or indirectly leading high performing teams with the ability to assess and grow software engineering talent.
• Proven track record of effectively delivering results in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities.
• Values a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Benefits

• Three medical plans which include:
• Prescription drug coverage.
• Enhanced Fertility benefits.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Health Savings Account (including employer contribution).
• Dental and Vision.
• Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance.
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability.
• Paid observed holidays.
• 2 paid floating holidays for U.S. hourly employees.
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) offered to U.S. salaried employees — no accruals and no caps. Paid Time Off (PTO) offered to all other employees in the U.S. and Canada.
• Paid parental leave.
• Paid time off to volunteer in your community.
• Charitable Giving Match Program.
• 401(k) with 6% company matching.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Plus a broad range of career development, networking, and team-building opportunities.