Senior Data Engineer (Remote)

Kohl's•Tallahassee, FL

1d•Remote

About The Position

As Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with design, product and engineering experts to tackle real-world challenges and deliver innovative solutions that elevate Kohl’s retail offerings.

Requirements

4+ years of experience in software development
Understanding of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database, schemas and testing strategies
In-depth knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment and test-driven development
Spark, Python, Scala and Airflow

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field
Experience with large-scale application troubleshooting and performance tuning
Exposure working with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
Familiarity and experience with XP (Extreme Programming)
MapReduce, Pig, Hive, Kafka, Sqoop, and Flume

Responsibilities

Lead the development of high-quality applications that are robust, observable and measurable using extreme programming (XP) practices and a user-centric approach
Participate in the entire application lifecycle in collaboration with designers, product managers, and other engineers on the product team
Leverage critical thinking, experimentation, data, and industry best practices to implement desired business outcomes
Facilitate group discussions and team ceremonies and develop a shared context
Give and receive feedback that’s empathetic, actionable and specific
Practice emergent architecture with sane defaults and build software that is easy to use and easy to modify
Establish and lead product engineering and software standards
Ideate a new product from a user perspective, starting with one or more problem spaces and ending with a stack-ranked list of feasible solutions to test
Research and stay up to date on tech market trends and practices
Lead technical initiatives not only on the team but also across the department
Knowledge of build management tools such as Jenkins or Maven
Demonstrated understanding of source control systems such as GIT
Database Design experience including either SQL, PL/SQL
Implementing ETL process with Big Data Technologies
Experience in designing and creating automation workflows and execution
Knowledge of Apache Airflow Developing DAG, Performance tuning of the DAGs and task implementation
Experience working with distributed caching technologies such as REDIS
Good understanding of MPP databases such as Teradata and Netezza