Principal, Data Engineer

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Come join our team where you’ll make technology happen in surprising ways. Let’s shape tomorrow - it’ll be a fun journey!

The Principal, Data Engineer will support the expansion and optimization of our real-time data and real-time data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection working in conjunction with cross functional teams. The Principal, Data Engineer will also assist with design and develop algorithms or technical solutions to deliver product requirements. The ideal candidate is an experienced real-time data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems for sub-seconds latency requirements and building them from the ground up. The Principal, Data Engineer will support a team of Engineers, Software Developers, Architects and Product Managers on data initiatives and will ensure optimal data delivery architecture is consistent. They must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems, and products. The right candidate will be excited by the prospect of optimizing or even re-designing Ingram Micro’s data architecture to support our next generation of products and data initiatives.

This role may also be responsible, jointly with others on the team, for ensuring proper documentation is made for each system change requested and that adequate change control, rigorous testing and training is done prior to moving changes into production. This position will assist with contributions to improving the ability of business teams to adopt, support and promote Ingram Micro capabilities. In addition, this position will contribute to continuous improvement initiatives in the area of data based business solutions and business self-service.

Your role:

Data flow design and implementation

• Create and maintain optimal real-time data pipeline architecture
• Gather and process large, complex, raw data sets at scale (including writing scripts, web scraping, calling APIs, write SQL queries, etc.) that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and ‘big data’ technologies.
• Work with stakeholders including the Business, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
• Create data tools for analytics and engineering team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.
• Be a data expert to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.
• Data Management On-call support will be required for implementation and support activities.

Data solutions development

• Employing your skills in designing, developing and delivering world class data algorithmic artifacts, including documentation and coding; coordinate data algorithmic development with infrastructural development.
• Work closely with our engineering and cross functional IT teams to integrate your amazing innovations and algorithms into our products.
• Research and apply advanced algorithms and methods involving data mining, statistical analysis and machine learning techniques.
• Process unstructured data into a form suitable for analysis – and then do the analysis.
• Support business decisions with ad hoc analysis as needed.
• Master third party systems and interfaces, including: data available by the parties, API to be used for obtaining the data, limitations related to these interfaces.
• Excellent subject matter expertise in designing algorithms, business logics to automate commerce process flows.
• Apply your broad-based data development expertise to create practical and innovative solutions.
• Efficiently implement clean, maintainable, and testable data solutions with high availability, blazing speed in performance and fault tolerant.
• Actively participate in code reviews, support