Associate Data Engineer - Direct College Hire

Southwest Airlines•Dallas, TX

2d•$89,450 - $99,400•Remote

About The Position

Our Technology Direct College Hire Program is a pathway for recent college graduates and individuals who are early in their technology careers to begin their professional growth journey. Through this program, we aim to help you develop lasting relationships while creating a meaningful career through on-the-job mentorship, professional development, and networking opportunities. Candidates will be selected to join one of the following Teams: Artificial Intelligence: As an Associate Data Engineer supporting the Artificial Intelligence Team at Southwest Airlines, you’ll build and transform data to power AI models that deliver predictive insights and automation for ground operations. This role focuses on preparing streaming and structured data for AI, leveraging cloud technologies, and collaborating with business partners to create impactful solutions. Preferred: Proficient in cloud technologies, including AWS (Lambda, S3, EMR, SageMaker) and Microsoft Azure, and SQL for data management and analysis. Data & Architecture: As an Associate Data Engineer on the Data & Architecture Team at Southwest Airlines, you’ll create reliable, secure and performant data pipelines that ingest, store and provide data in a variety of ways to business and technology Customers across the enterprise. In this role, you can expect to work on back-end development to ensure vital data can be retrieved and delivered to enterprise Customers. Preferred: Experience with ETL development and tools, including Ab Initio and AWS Glue. Preferred: Knowledge of AWS services such as S3, Glue, Lambda, VPC, API Gateway, EC2, EMR, CloudWatch, and AWS Q Developer. Preferred: Proficiency in Java, Python, and SQL, with experience using GitLab for version control. Preferred: Familiarity with Terraform for infrastructure automation and deployment. Additional Details This Dallas-based role is offered as a remote workplace position, which may require onsite presence/travel for training, meetings, conferences, etc. Outside of those required visits, the majority of your working time may be spent in an approved remote location within the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Applicants must reside in the Dallas-Fort Worth area by their first day of employment. Relocation assistance is not provided for this position. U.S. citizenship or current authorization to work in the U.S. required and no current or future work authorization sponsorship available. We’re committed to fair hiring practices and to making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristics.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED
Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field; or equivalent formal training
Entry level experience, developing skills and knowledge in: Cloud infrastructure, DataLake, AbInitio
ETL experience ensuring source to target data integrity.
Various file types (Delimited Text, Fixed Width, XML, JSON, Parque)
Unit Testing, Code Quality tools, CI/CD Technologies, Security and Container Technologies
Agile development experience and Agile ceremonies and practices
Must maintain a well-groomed appearance per Company appearance standards as described in established guidelines
Must be a U.S. citizen or have authorization to work in the United States as defined by the Immigration Reform Act of 1986
Must be at least 18 years of age
Must be able to comply with Company attendance standards as described in established guidelines

Nice To Haves

Proficient in cloud technologies, including AWS (Lambda, S3, EMR, SageMaker) and Microsoft Azure, and SQL for data management and analysis.
Experience with ETL development and tools, including Ab Initio and AWS Glue.
Knowledge of AWS services such as S3, Glue, Lambda, VPC, API Gateway, EC2, EMR, CloudWatch, and AWS Q Developer.
Proficiency in Java, Python, and SQL, with experience using GitLab for version control.
Familiarity with Terraform for infrastructure automation and deployment.

Responsibilities

Monitor and maintain the components of our data engineering pipeline, and various container-based services configured through UIs, SQL, PL/SQL, Python, and Shell, with code managed in GitHub, deployed through Jenkins
Work as a part of our production support team to ensure the highest standards of product configuration that meet client requirements
Test and troubleshoot data pipeline using sample and live client data, utilizing Jenkins, Python, and Java to automate these tests. Must be able to parse logs to determine next actions
Utilize dashboards for Kubernetes/OpenShift to diagnose high level issues and ensure services are healthy
Support Implementation immediately after go live and work with implementation team to transition support
Work with data providers to clarify requirements and remove roadblocks
Drive automation into everyday activities
May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders

Benefits

Fly for free, as a privilege, on any open seat on all Southwest flights (your eligible dependents too)
Southwest will help fund your 401(k) retirement savings with Company contributions up to 9.3% of your eligible earnings
Potential for annual ProfitSharing contribution in the Southwest Retirement Savings Plan- when Southwest profits, you profit
Competitive health insurance for you and your eligible dependents (including pets)
Southwest offers health plan coverage options that start from the very first day of employment. You will have 30 days to select and enroll in your health plan with coverage retroactively available to your first day of employment.

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