Senior Data Engineer

C.H. Robinson is seeking a Senior Data Engineer role as a technical leadership role on a software development team. The successful candidate will work closely with engineering product managers and business stakeholders to design strategic data solutions, drive innovation, and mentor other engineers.

Responsibilities:

• 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 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

Requirements:

• 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)
• 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
• 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