Data Engineer Associate

Gordon Food Service • Michigan, MI

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Welcome to Gordon Food Service! We are excited that you are thinking about opportunities with us, and we have an amazing story to share. See below for a quick glance of who we are and the impact you could have on the food service industry. There's a seat at our table for you... Position Summary Using their inquisitiveness, tenacity, and willingness to learn, this Data Engineer Associate will help develop the GFS Data Platform consisting of the data lake, analytics, enterprise data warehouse, and visualization tools. They will follow the teams technical direction by writing high quality code and following modern design principles and stay on top of industry trends in the Data & Analytics industry and introduce them into the GFS environment. They will builds data solutions in an agile and incremental manner and is an active participant in all team ceremonies. They will have the ability to understand complex architecture and engineering designs and the skill to help implement them. They will also have strong personal skills to develop relationships with peers on their team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Advanced Analytics, Statistics or related field required
• At least 1-3 years of experience in technical design, development, and delivery of data engineering technical solutions preferred
• Academic or professional experience writing complex software programs (mobile, web, backend, etc…)
• Interest in modern data movement technologies (e.g. serverless, real-time, as needed computing, low latency data movement, high volume data management, etc...)
• Academic or professional experience using data to make design decisions
• Familiarity with devops processes to deliver code quickly with a high degree of confidence and quality

Nice To Haves

• Preferred languages include but not limited to Python and Java
• Experience with one or many cloud computing providers (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure) preferred
• Knowledge of Terraform preferred

Responsibilities

• Follow the technical strategy and direction for the Data Platform environment at GFS, including tools, techniques, and processes.
• Help build technology solutions as assigned by the team
• Collaborate with others on the team to learn and implement technical architectures to deliver insightful solutions.
• Understand the business analytics problems the company faces and help build solutions that solve them
• Work on a high-performing team focused on results and relationships
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees