Job Description

About Us:

We are a full stack data science company and a wholly owned subsidiary of The Kroger Company. We own 10 Petabytes of data, and collect 35+ Terabytes of new data each week sourced from 62 Million households. As a member of our software engineering team you will use various cutting-edge technologies to develop applications that turn our data into actionable insights used to personalize the customer experience for shoppers at Kroger.

What you'll do:

As a Senior Data Engineer, you are part of the software development team. We develop strategies and solutions to ingest, store, and distribute our big data. Our developers use Big Data technologies including (but not limited to) Hadoop, PySpark, Hive, JSON, and SQL to develop products, tools and software features.

Minimum Skills Required:

• Bachelor's degree (typically in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, Business Analytics or another technically strong program), plus 2 years of experience

• Proven Big Data technology development experience including Hadoop, Spark (PySpark), and Hive

• Understanding of Agile Principles (Scrum)

• Experience developing with Python

• Cloud Development (Azure)

• Exposure to VCS (Git, SVN)

Position Specific Skill Preferences:

• Experience developing with SQL (Oracle, SQL Server)

• Exposure to NoSQL (Mongo, Cassandra)

• Apache NiFi

• Airflow

• Docker

Key Responsibilities

• Innovate, develop, and drive the development and communication of data strategy and roadmaps across the technology organization to support project portfolio and business strategy
• Drive the development and communication of enterprise standards for data domains and data solutions, focusing on simplified integration and streamlined operational and analytical uses
• Drive digital innovation by leveraging innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing core data assets, including SQL-based, NoSQL-based, and Cloud-based data platforms
• Define high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state, typically in sync with the budgeting or other capital planning processes Lead the analysis of the technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
• Mentor team members in data principles, patterns, processes and practices
• Promote the reuse of data assets, including the management of the data catalog for reference
• Draft and review architectural diagrams, interface specifications and other design documents
• Proactively and holistically lead activities that create deliverables to guide the direction, development, and delivery of technological responses to targeted business outcomes.
• Provide facilitation, analysis, and design tasks required for the development of an enterprise's data and information architecture, focusing on data as an asset for the enterprise.
• Develop target-state guidance (i.e., reusable standards, design patterns, guidelines, individual parts and configurations) to evolve the technical infrastructure related to data and information across the enterprise, including direct collaboration with 84.51.

Required Skills : Azure,Python
Basic Qualification :
Additional Skills :
Background Check :Yes
Drug Screen :Yes
Notes :
Selling points for candidate :
Project Verification Info :
Candidate must be your W2 Employee :Yes
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :No
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
Interview times set : :No
Type of project :Development/Engineering
Master Job Title :Other
Branch Code :Cincinnati