Overview
TekWissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. Our client is an American multinational company and one of the largest chocolate manufacturers in the world. It also manufactures baked products, beverages and many more that are produced globally.
Position: Sr. Data Engineer
Location: Hershey, PA 17033
Duration: 4 Months
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Remote
Job Description
- This role is responsible for completing the data visualization tasks necessary for the Salty Category Shelf Analytics in-house capability.
- This work will be completed in partnership with the existing team working on the existing Candy Mints and Gum (CMG) tool.
- This role will sit within the existing IS team working within the Agile software development lifecycle workstreams.
- This role is focused on standing up Salty in-house capabilities centered on prepping designated retailer data at the store level within the Client environment of Databricks or Snowflake, to enable it to be layered with PSA Planogram file data.
- The final step to work in partnership with a Data Analytics Engineer to allow the data to be brought to life allowing end users to mine and action against the data.
- This will include the documentation of the process. The individual will work closely with Commercial functions – Category Management and IS partners.
- This role will also partner closely with Client’s Enterprise Data team to ensure projects are aligned with Hershey data & technology strategies.
- The Enterprise Data organization drives value for Client by providing high-quality, well governed data to the Enterprise for analytics and decision-making.
- The Sr. Data Engineer will be part of an agile execution team, working with Client business partners, data scientists, technical engineers, and project managers to ensure engineering standards adhere to company best practice and help to deliver rapid impactful benefits.
- The Sr. Data Engineer will act as a trusted advisor for Client business partners by ensuring that data solutions meet expectations and requirements.
- You will work with a diverse team of business analysts, data scientists, technical engineers, data architects, and project managers to deliver outcomes aligned with our business partner’s strategy.
- In addition, you will work directly with the Sr. Manager of Data Engineering to ensure consistency and compliance of deliverables to frameworks and governance processes.
Major Duties/Responsibilities
- Time % Summary of major duties:
- 60% Data Engineering Solution Delivery: Develop and deliver high-quality data pipelines adhering to best practice, privacy, and governance principles
- 20% Data Engineering Maintenance/Optimization: Work existing data pipelines and solutions to enhance its performance, quality and/or functionality. Resolve incidents escalated by support teams or business users
- 10% Data Engineering Domain: Collaborate with IT and business partners to define, manage and deliver innovative Data solutions to drive growth and adoption of capabilities at Client
- 10% Data Engineering Advocacy: Evangelize future data solutions identified by Enterprise Data leadership, including innovations such as: metadata management; data security and governance; cloud-based systems for data storage; multi-environment integration and automation of data tasks and movement
Specific Job Responsibilities
- Executes the strategy to deliver cloud-based intelligent systems to collect, distribute, model, and analyze disparate and diverse data assets to automate insights and drive business performance
- Using best practice frameworks and governance, evaluate, design, and analyze solution engineering for agile delivery
- Create and develop robust and secure ETL pipelines across a broad range of data-focused products, services, projects, and systems
- Using best practice guidance from Enterprise Data leadership, oversee the health and evolution of agile execution team engineering technologies
- Works closely with leaders within dat engineering, data architecture, data science and domain experts, to build and maintain roadmaps against the IT strategy
- Partner to deliver a modern data engineering model that follows Dev/Ops principles and standards for continuous integration/ continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes
- Ensure reliability in data and data pipelines, enforcing governance, security, and performance
- Collaborate in developing best in class key performance indicators to measure the performance and quality of the data engineering teams and processes
- Able to articulate the holistic benefits of data engineering from a business perspective, while maintaining the relationship with business analysts, data scientists, technical engineers, and project managers
Minimum Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Required
- Experience designing, implementing large scale data pipelines for data curation, feature engineering and machine learning across multiple environments
- Working knowledge of agile frameworks
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines and produce quality results under pressure
- Demonstrated leadership and managerial skills
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Strong team player, change agent, and advocate
- Excellent customer service skills
- High energy self-starter
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Top Three Technical Skills
- Familiarity with data analytics & visualization tools (SQL, Databricks/Snowflake, PowerBI, & Azure Cloud)
- Experience with the Agile Software Development Lifecycle
- CPG experience working with IS + Business partners across various business units
Must Haves
- 5-8 years of experience
- Software Skills and Purpose (if applicable): Databricks, Snowflake, & Power BI
- Industry Experience: CPG
TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
TekWissen is an emerging global human capital, recruitment and IT services organization. Operating since 2009, we draw upon more than a decade of staffing experience to deliver critical talent acquisition solutions and IT engagements for our clients. We’re founded on a culture that is passionate about delivering tailored solutions, that create lasting partnerships.
Our global footprint covers six countries: United States, Canada, Australia, India, United Kingdom and the Philippines. This allows us to work in close partnership with organizations and manage everything from global talent needs with demanding resourcing strategies, to single sites with lower recruitment volumes.
TekWissen® is an equal opportunity employer supporting workplace diversity.