For more than 50 years, NISC has worked to develop technology solutions for our customers, who we call our "Members". Those Members are comprised primarily of 950+ utility and broadband companies across the country and abroad, and we strive to provide services and technology to help them operate efficiently and better serve their end users. Our Members have over 18 million end customers (residential and businesses who receive power, internet, television and/or telephone services) that our enterprise software solution enables our Members to compete effectively in the industry, while excelling in customer service.
Position Overview:
The Data Engineering team is responsible for curating and optimizing our data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for various application teams. This team supports our application experts, software developers, database architects, and data analysts on a Data Roadmap strategy and will ensure optimal data delivery architecture is consistent throughout ongoing projects. The Team Lead must be comfortable supporting not only the data needs of multiple teams, systems, and products but also supporting the needs of the Data Engineers on this team. We look for individuals who will thrive in a team environment, be committed to accomplishing a common goal and get excited by the prospect of optimizing or even re-designing our company's data architecture and have some fun along the way.
Work Schedule: - Hybrid from one of our office locations:
- Cedar Rapids, IA
- Lake Saint Louis, MO
- Mandan, ND
- Requirement: Minimum of working 3 days per week out of an office location and ability to work up to all 5 days a week from an office location.
- Virtual if not located near one of NISC's physical office locations, with the ability to travel to an office location 1-4 times a year.
Essential Functions:
- Takes ownership for development efforts and productivity of the data engineering team.
- Analyze and resolve technical issues.
- Responsible for coaching of direct reports.
- Ensure quality data standards and apply best practices for an effective SDLC.
- Supply progress reports to management.
- Effective collaboration with other departments and divisions.
- Contributing technically and coaching individuals on the team around technical projects within:
- Assembling large, complex data sets that meet functional/non-functional business requirements.
- Understanding of Data Warehouse and Data Lakehouse paradigms.
- Design and build optimal data pipelines from a wide variety of data sources using AWS technologies.
- Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
- Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing a unified data stream.
- Work with other data engineering experts to strive for greater functionality while making data more discoverable, addressable, trustworthy, and secure.
- Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
- Identify and act upon areas for growth and improvement within the team.
- Responsible for application and process improvement.
- Assess individual and team performance.
- Set individual and team goals and objectives.
- Selection and Hiring of new employees.
- Assists Department Manager with establishing action plans for key strategic projects and technical direction.
Desired Experience and Skills: - 5+ years of relevant experience in an area of discipline; preferably in data engineering, software development, software requirements, or other applicable technical areas.
- 3+ years of experience in a technical leadership or supervisory role.
- Candidate with experience in a Data Engineer role, who has attained a BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, or another quantitative field. They should also have experience using the following software/tools:
- Experience with AWS: Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, etc.
- Experience with Databricks and Delta Lake.
- Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
- Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Oracle, Postgres Cassandra, and DynamoDb.
- Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Hevo Data, Airflow, etc.
- Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, Databricks, EMR
- Experience with stream-processing systems: Apache Spark, Kafka Streams, Spring Cloud, etc.
- Experience with object-oriented languages: Java, Scala.
- Nice-to-have
- Experience with scripting languages: Python, JavaScript, Bash, etc.
- Strong delegation, prioritization, coaching, and feedback delivery skills.
- Excellent written and verbal interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to manage the day-to-day operations of a team engaged in a high volume of work.
- Strong communication skills, self-motivated and accountable.
- Commitment to NISC's Statement of Shared Values.
NISC's Shared Values & Competencies:
We're a cooperative, which means we're owned by the Members we serve. It also means that our focus is on taking care of our Members and our employees, rather than having a big bottom line. Quality service and innovative technology starts with happy and dedicated employees. Join our team and learn for yourself what sets NISC apart.
- Integrity – We are committed to doing the right thing – always.
- Relationships – We are committed to building and preserving lasting relationships.
- Innovation – We promote the spirit of creativity and champion new ideas.
- Teamwork – We exemplify the cooperative spirit by working together.
- Empowerment – We believe individuals have the power to make a difference.
- Personal Development – We believe the free exchange of knowledge and information is absolutely necessary to the success of each individual and the organization.
Benefits: - Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance.
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with $100 monthly contributions from NISC.
- Like to walk? Improve your overall wellness knowledge? Ability to earn up to $800 additional dollars into your HSA each year through our Wellness Rewards program.
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA) thru Paylocity.
- Fully covered life insurance up to x3 annual base salary.
- Fully covered short- and long-term disability.
- 401(k), traditional or Roth, with employee match up to 6% and employer 4% salary base contributions.
- PTO accrual levels dependent on years of service, 120 Life Leave Event hours, 9 paid holidays and an annual holiday week.
- $2,500 Interest-FREE technology loan program.
- $25,000 employee educational assistance program.
- Volunteer, Wellness, Family Events and other employee fun supplied by our committees.
- Employee Assistance Program; assisting employees and dependents with virtually any life event
- Benevolence Committee to support employees with financial hardships like unexpected medical bills, funerals and other unfortunate hardships.
Education Preferred:
Bachelor's or master's degree in a Data Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field and/or equivalent experience.
Minimum Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Employees must be able to see, speak, and hear, to operate computer keyboards or office equipment, and are required to stand, walk, and sit.
Disclaimer: Management may modify this job description by assigning or reassigning duties or responsibilities at any time.