Supervisor Data Engineering

FirstEnergy • Akron, OH

2h • Hybrid

About The Position

FirstEnergy is a forward-thinking electric utility headquartered in Akron, Ohio, committed to making customers’ lives brighter, the environment better, and communities stronger. The company includes one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, over 24,000 miles of transmission lines, and a regulated generating fleet with more than 3,500 megawatts capacity. This position is within FirstEnergy Service Company, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. The Data Engineering Supervisor will lead data engineers in building and maintaining data products for analytics solutions. These solutions will generate insights from connected data within a unified data platform, advancing the enterprise's data-driven decision-making capabilities. The team frequently works with environments such as Azure (including Data Lake Storage, Databricks, and Machine Learning), Informatica PowerCenter and IDR, and legacy on-premise platforms like SingleStore, Teradata, and Oracle.

Requirements

• You have a bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline such as Computer Science or another related field with 7 years related experience. In lieu of a degree, you have 9 years of related experience.
• Expertise in data lakehouse technologies (such as Databricks or Snowflake) and streaming platforms
• Expertise in design, build, and deployment of data solutions that support AI, ML, and BI
• Proficiency in design and implementation of modern data architecture, including cloud services and modern data warehouse tools
• Experience integrating data quality practices into Data Engineering development patterns
• Experience developing and implementing operational plans, which may include budgets, processes, and road maps
• Experience in Agile/Scrum development with DevOps methodologies geared toward rapid prototyping and piloting of cloud solutions
• Knowledge of ITIL concepts with a focus on configuration management, change management, and incident management
• Strong interpersonal, communications, presentation, training & mentoring skills
• Ability to observe employees, assess performance, and provide feedback
• Ability to plan for and support employees in career development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Actively leading a high performing, empowered team that develops data engineering solutions to serve enterprise data product needs, and to enable advanced analytics (machine learning models, artificial intelligence, and/or statistical models)
• Oversight of contracted employees, ensuring project work meets contractual milestones and removing blockers as necessary
• Ensuring adherence to data engineering standards and governance, as well as IT change management and related governance processes
• Supporting numerous projects and activities simultaneously, ensuring that squad objectives are consistent with overall department objectives
• Advocating a culture of sharing, re-use, design for scale stability, and operational efficiency of data and analytical solutions (including data modelling design methodologies).
• Supporting the evaluation, implementation and deployment of emerging tools and processes for advanced analytical data engineering, as part of architecture road mapping efforts
• Participating in the overall project planning for resource balancing for data engineers
• Participating in vendor management processes including resolving support issues, product road mapping and license renewals
• Performing quarterly check-in conversations with employees and providing coaching and feedback on performance, expectations, professional development, and career growth
• Championing FirstEnergy’s Core Values & Behaviors, through coaching and by personal example
• Supporting major incidents, project activities and support concerns off hours as required

Benefits

• competitive pay plus incentive compensation
• a company-sponsored pension plan
• 401(k) savings plan with matching employer contribution
• a choice of medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, and life insurance programs
• skills development training with tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

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