Data Engineer III

What you'll do...

Position: Data Engineer III

Job Location: 603 Munger Ave Dallas, TX, 75202

Duties: Problem Formulation: Identifies possible options to address the business problems within one's discipline through analytics, big data analytics, and automation. Applied Business Acumen: Supports the development of business cases and recommendations. Owns delivery of project activity and tasks assigned by others. Supports process updates and changes. Solves business issues. Data Governance: Supports the documentation of data governance processes. Supports the implementation of data governance practices. Data Strategy: Understands, articulates, and applies principles of the defined strategy to routine business problems that involve a single function. Data Transformation and Integration: Extracts data from identified databases. Creates data pipelines and transform data to a structure that is relevant to the problem by selecting appropriate techniques. Develops knowledge of current data science and analytics trends. Data Source Identification: Supports the understanding of the priority order of requirements and service level agreements. Helps identify the most suitable source for data that is fit for purpose. Performs initial data quality checks on extracted data. Data Modeling: Analyzes complex data elements, systems, data flows, dependencies, and relationships to contribute to conceptual, physical, and logical data models. Develops the Logical Data Model and Physical Data Models including data warehouse and data mart designs. Defines relational tables, primary and foreign keys, and stored procedures to create a data model structure. Evaluates existing data models and physical databases for variances and discrepancies. Develops efficient data flows. Analyzes data-related system integration challenges and proposes appropriate solutions. Creates training documentation and trains end-users on data modeling. Oversees the tasks of less experienced programmers and stipulates system troubleshooting supports. Code Development and Testing: Writes code to develop the required solution and application features by determining the appropriate programming language and leveraging business, technical, and data requirements. Creates test cases to review and validate the proposed solution design. Creates proofs of concept. Tests the code using the appropriate testing approach. Deploys software to production servers. Contributes code documentation, maintains playbooks, and provides timely progress updates.

Minimum education and experience required: Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field plus 2 years of experience in software engineering or related experience; OR Master’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

Skills Required: Must have experience with: coding in an object-oriented programming language Scala; data ingestion in cloud data lake (Google) using Spark and cloud technology; utilizing agile methodology for sprint planning; implementing metadata, data completeness, and data quality checks using SQL queries; developing process and business logic flows using microsoft visio/lucid charts; job creation, automation and monitoring using Airflow/Databricks; performing data migration tests from old source file systems to new data sources; performing end-to-end ETL flow testing for business models; source data collection and validation using Excel; engaging with engineering teams to support production loads; and performing production data load aggregations & validations for models using views generated for product owners in SQL. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

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Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.