
Data Engineer - Associate Systems Engineer
- India
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Enhance and maintain the AutoZone information strategy.
- Ensure alignment of programs and projects with the strategic AZ Information Roadmap and related strategies
- Perform gap analysis between current data structures and target data structures.
- Enhance and maintain the Enterprise Information Model
- Work with service architects and application architects to assist with the creation of proper data access and utilization methods.
- Gather complex business requirements and translate product and project needs into data models supporting long-term solutions.
- Serve as a technical data strategy expert and lead the creation of technical requirements and design deliverables.
- Define and communicate data standards, industry best practices, technologies, and architectures.
- Check conformance to standards and resolve any conflicts by explaining and justifying architectural decisions.
- Recommend and evaluate new tools and methodologies as needed.
- Manage, communicate, and improve the data governance framework.
- Bachelor's degree in MIS, Computer Science or similar degree or experience required
- Minimum 3+ yrs experience and knowledge of database systems such as Oracle, Postgres, UDB/DB2, BigQuery, Spanner, JSON, and Couchbase
- Minimum 2 years of experience with data requirements gathering, acquisition of data from difference business systems, ingestion of data in GCP using managed services namely BigQuery, DataFlow, Composer, Pub/Sub and other ingestion technologies, curation of the data using DBT or other similar technologies and creating data marts/wide tables for analysis and reporting consumption.
- Assembling large, complex sets of data that meet non-functional and functional business requirements.
- Identifying, designing, and implementing internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes
- Building required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources using GCP and SQL technologies
- Building analytical tools to utilize the data pipeline, providing actionable insight into key business performance metrics including operational efficiency and customer acquisition.
- Working with stakeholders including data, design, product, and executive teams and assisting them with data-related technical issues
- Working with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to support their data infrastructure needs while assisting with data-related technical issues.
- Relational & NoSQL database design capability across OLTP & OLAP
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to facilitate modeling sessions and communicate appropriately with IT and business customers
- Experience with Agile software development methodologies
- Experience with large-replicated databases across distributed and cloud data centers
- A systems thinker, able to move fluidly between high-level abstract thinking and detail-oriented implementation, open minded to new ideas, approaches, and technologies
- A data and fact-driven decision maker, with an ability to make quick decisions under uncertainty when necessary; able to quickly learn new technologies, tools, and organizational structures/strategies
- Understanding of current industry standard best practices regarding integration, architecture, tools, and processes
- A self-starter that is naturally inquisitive, requiring only small pieces to the puzzle, across many technologies - new and legacy
- Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and analytical skills, including the ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts and designs to a broad range of people.