Alabama Power Company · 23 hours ago
Data Engineer
Atlanta, GA, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
6+ years expAlabama Power Company, part of Southern Company, is a leading energy provider serving millions of customers. They are seeking a Data Engineer I to translate data into consumable forms and maintain data pipelines for various analytics and AI use cases.
Electrical DistributionEnergyLogisticsRetail
Responsibilities
Designing and Developing methods to process structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data using batch and real-time data processing techniques
Delivering fast, reliable, and scalable data by incrementally and efficiently processing as it arrives from files or streaming sources like Kafka, DBMS and NoSQL
Developing Release pipelines to automate recurring manual tasks like creating a build package, checking that build package into a version control repository and deploying it to a DV/UA environment
Building and Maintaining templates such as code libraries, pipeline patterns and semantic models to promote reuse and agility
Establishing gatekeeping processes that monitor and controls the promotion of successful data processes into production by understanding the business criticality
Collaborating with cross-functional teams with a combination of data, business, and technical personas, as well as a product owner/manager as necessary
Advocating data reusability by breaking down monolithic data delivery processes into modular data product delivery
Ensuring data reliability by defining data quality and integrity controls within the pipeline with defined data expectations and addressing data quality errors with predefined policies
Actively working with less experienced data engineers providing technical guidance and oversight
Understanding the usage of performance optimization clusters that parallelize jobs and minimize the data movement in Batch and stream data processing
Recommending improvements to the processes, technology, and interfaces that reduce the development time and effort and enhance the effectiveness of the team
Promptly participating in the Enterprise Social Networking sites, staying up to date on new data technologies and best practices and sharing insights with others in the organization
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in computer science (CS), MIS, CIS, Mathematics, Statistics (Theoretical/Computational), Machine Learning or a related field
Proven knowledge of data engineering, data integration and data science principles are required
6+ years of related work experience in a fast-paced, competitive organization driven by data and enabled by technology
Working experience with batch and real-time data processing frameworks
Working experience with data modelling, data access, schemas, and data storage techniques
Working experience with data quality tools
Experience in creating functional and technical designs for data engineering and analytics solutions
Experience implementing data models of different schemas and working with diverse data source types
Hands-on experience developing solutions with big data technologies such as Hadoop, HIVE and Spark
Hands-on experience developing and supporting Python based AI/ML solutions
6+ years hands on experience designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting data engineering and analytics solutions using on-premises tools such as, Microsoft's BI Stack (SSIS/SSAS/SSRS), Informatica, Oracle Golden Gate, SQL, Oracle, and SQL Server
4+ years hands on experience designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting data engineering and analytics solutions using Microsoft cloud-based tools such as Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Python, Azure Synapse, Azure Key Vault, and Power BI
Experience with Containerization methodologies – Docker, OpenShift etc
Experience with Agile as well as DevOps, CI/CD methodologies
Hands-on experience designing and developing solutions involving data sourcing, enrichment and delivery using APIs & Web Services
Experience working with Jira or similar tools
Experience working with Kafka or similar tools
Results-oriented
Innovative
Strategic thinker with an enterprise view for sustainable solutions
Committed to continuous learning and improvement
Committed to the development of others
Committed to building and maintaining constructive partnerships with business partners
Works well both independently and with others
Acts with speed and decisiveness
Committed to ethical conduct
Lives and works safely
Benefits
Competitive base salary
Annual incentive awards for eligible employees
Health, welfare and retirement benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional/social well-being
Incentive program
Company
Alabama Power Company
Alabama Power provides the valuable combination of It is a sub-organization of Southern Company.
5001-10000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Jeff Peoples
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Moses Feagin
Executive Vice President, CFO and Treasurer
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