Senior Data Engineer

Kohl's • Tallahassee, FL

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About The Position

As Senior Data Engineer, you will lead the development and ownership of domain data products, including batch, streaming and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) feature pipelines. You will drive design decisions that improve data reliability, performance and governance maturity while standardizing patterns that scale across teams. You will partner cross-functionally to enable analytics, ML and GenAI use cases with trusted data.

Requirements

• 4+ years designing, building and optimizing data pipelines and models in production, ideally within large-scale cloud environments
• Proficiency in SQL and Python (or Scala) for data development, testing and automation

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering or a related field
• Experience with Apache Spark (or equivalent) for large-scale data processing and performance optimization
• Experience using Airflow/Cloud Composer/Dagster for orchestration, transformation and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with cloud warehouses/lakes (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake) and object storage
• Experience designing and optimizing streaming pipelines using Kafka, Pub/Sub, spark
• Strong understanding of dimensional modeling, normalization and schema design for analytics and GenAI integration into data products
• Experience with data testing, lineage, monitoring and observability frameworks to ensure data integrity and reliability

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain batch, streaming and real-time Artificial Intelligence (AI) feature pipelines to extract data from diverse source systems and producers (Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), events, databases, files) ensuring efficient ingestion, transformation and publishing
• Design, refine and implement scalable data models, semantic layers and data contracts to promote consistency, reuse and accessibility
• Owns the end-to-end data product lifecycle for the domain. Define and maintain data contracts, including service level agreements (SLAs), schema expectations, quality metrics and consumer ownership, to ensure a reliable and trustworthy experience
• Partner with cross functional teams to co-design scalable data solutions that meet business needs and clearly define the boundaries between data pipeline responsibilities and model-building activities
• Develop automated workflows and Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using tools such as Airflow, Apache Spark and Python to drive reliability and faster delivery
• Implement validation, observability and evaluation frameworks that ensure accuracy, lineage and timeliness across data pipelines and large language model (LLM) outputs
• Apply and enforce governance, privacy and compliance standards (GDPR, PCI DSS, CCPA), ensuring data security and traceability
• Partner with cross functional teams to translate business needs into technical data solutions that scale across domains
• Drive performance tuning, automation and adoption of AI-powered data tools to enhance data platform efficiency
• Mentor data engineers and champion best practices for maintainable, governed and reusable data assets
• Own cost and performance tradeoffs for domain data products and monitor compute usage, storage growth and unit cost to implement optimizations that reduce spend while meeting SLAs

Benefits

• Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance as set by the company
• Ability to work at least 8 hours per day, occasionally longer when necessary to meet business needs, 5 days per week
• Ability to comply with dress code requirements
• Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines
• Ability to give direction and receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel
• Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others
• Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes
• Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs
• Perform work in accordance with the Physical/Cognitive Requirements section
• Ability to use a personal computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc.
• Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units
• Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner
• Ability to comply with health and safety standards

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree