Hybrid Data Engineer III

at Grainger

• Job title: Data Engineer III
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $110,500 - $184,100 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Airflow, AWS, Cloud, Kafka, Kubernetes, Microservices, Python, Scala, Spark
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chicago, United States

About the role

• Senior Data Engineer on Grainger’s Pricing team creating technology that supports their pricing strategy. Responsible for building and maintaining applications and data for effective pricing decisions.

Responsibilities

• Pioneer a new way of thinking about Data Pipelines, Orchestration and Configuration at Grainger.
• Develop our next-generation micro-services to enhance and mature a data-driven culture
• Help develop the Analytics and Data Kubernetes products in AWS
• Experience building data products for Data Science use cases
• Assemble complex sets of data that meet requirements
• Identify and design internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes
• Build required tools for extraction, transformation and loading of data from data sources
• Build product features to allow self-service analytics
• Work with partners including data, design, product and executive teams and assisting them with data-related technical issues

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience required
• 3+ years hands-on experience with Modern Data Engineering projects and practices (Airflow, Kafka, Spark, and python) required
• Successful track record in developing and automating large-scale, high-performance data engineering systems (batch and streaming).
• Experience with both scripting and system programming languages (Python and Scala).
• Experience with microservices including defining and testing APIs
• Experience architecting, developing, and deploying both offline and online feature stores
• Experience leading data integration efforts of data sources
• Experience partnering with internal departments (Supply Chain, Marketing, Finance, and HR) to establish requirements.
• Develop junior team members through modern cloud-based development
• Translate requirements into technical requirements and produce required source-to-target data mappings.
• Bring complex concepts into our organization and mentor others.
• Experience with advanced analytics and machine learning.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one of employment and 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing.
• 18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees (accrual prorated based on employment start date) and 6 company holidays per year.
• 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required.
• Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and free access to financial counseling, education, and tools.
• Maternity support programs, nursing benefits, and up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents and up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents.