About this role
Overview
The Data Engineer II designs, develops, maintains, and improves software applications and business processes. This mid-level role works independently on many development and maintenance tasks while collaborating with engineers, DevOps, business partners, and other teams. The engineer helps keep applications reliable, explores better ways of working, and provides guidance to less experienced colleagues.
Responsibilities
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, analysis, design, documentation, development, testing, deployment, and support.
- Maintain applications through enhancements, upgrades, patches, troubleshooting, and defect resolution.
- Diagnose system problems and improve application performance, reliability, and quality.
- Work with DevOps on CI/CD practices that support stable, repeatable releases.
- Partner with users to clarify requirements and develop solutions for application and business process improvements.
- Research technologies and development practices, and contribute to proofs of concept that help determine approaches for new initiatives and existing systems.
- Create and maintain shared enterprise packages, including NuGet or npm packages as applicable, as development environments evolve.
- Contribute to application portfolio planning and work across departments to improve development capabilities.
- Mentor less experienced engineers and help Development Managers identify team training needs.
Requirements
- College degree in computer science or another technical field, or equivalent work experience.
- 2-4 years of experience analyzing requirements, developing software, and writing code.
- Knowledge of Snowflake, DBT, SQL Server, Python, ADO, Power BI, R; preferred.
- Advanced knowledge of software development and project lifecycle principles.
- Advanced knowledge of relevant programming languages, web development languages, scripting tools, or protocols.
- Ability to complete development and maintenance work independently while collaborating effectively with a team.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills.