Senior Data Engineer

SRP is one of the largest public power and water utilities in the U.S. providing electricity to approximately one million customers in the greater metropolitan Phoenix area. Since its founding in 1903, SRP has fostered a culture of stewardship and customer service consistently ranking as an industry leader in customer service according to J.D. Power. SRP continues to adapt to its changing business environment by seeking innovative ways to reimagine utility service and the provision of critical resources essential to the life and economy of Arizona.

Job Brief

As a Senior Data Engineer in the Analytics Center of Excellence (ACE) at Salt River Project, your role is to be an expert at understanding SRP's data and then use it to create meaningful models and solutions. You will create & support data models, data pipelines, transformation SQL queries, and algorithms, solve interesting business problems for data analysts, data scientists, and business users across SRP. If you are a sharp coder, can identify problems in complex data, enjoy making information more accessible and easier to use for analytics, willing to learn and quickly adapt to new technologies, love to produce innovative solutions to solve tricky data problems, this is a great opportunity for you.
 

Job Responsibilities

• Creating and maintaining efficient data pipeline architecture
• Assembling large, complex data sets that meet functional/non-functional business requirements
• Identifying, developing, and implementing internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Building the infrastructure for efficient extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of data from a wide variety of data sources using Azure Data Factory, DBT, Snowflake and SAP
• Working with technical and non-technical stakeholders to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs
• Strive for clean and meaningful data within our consolidated data analytics platform

Education

Completion of a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution that prepares the employee for the assignment.

Experience

Promotion to Level 2 requires a minimum of two years experience at Level 1 and demonstrated capability to perform advanced and more difficult work as determined by the supervisor. Promotion to Senior Level requires a minimum of 3 years experience at Level 2, is fully competent in all aspects of functional area of assignment and as such would be recognized as a specialist in area of assignment and may have periodic or occasional lead responsibilities.

Additional Information

Knowledge & Experience

• Experience in developing and/or maintaining: Data Model, ETL/ELT, SQL Queries, and Data Science Models in a business analytics, data warehousing or business intelligence setting
• Fundamental knowledge of Snowflake, Hadoop, SQL Server, SAP, Oracle, DB2, Postgres, and other common data platforms
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Curiosity and passion about utilizing analytics and data to solve problems
• Willing to ask questions and challenge data accuracy and assumptions
• Creative in solution design to achieve impactful, highly functional, and supportable solutions
• Able to translate or transform complicated or technical information into simple and clear communications for non-technical and business audiences
• Able to translate business needs and data into models that support KPIs, visualizations, or interactive dashboards that influence behavior
• Excellent communication, and presentation skills for a variety of audiences from entry-level employees to executive staff
• Thrive in an active collaborative team environment, experience with Agile is a plus
• Sensitive to client needs and able to develop strong relationships
• Eager and able to continually learn new tools
• Familiarity with reporting and visualization tools
• Results driven and self-sufficient

Technical Skills
• Required: Snowflake, DBT, ANSI SQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure DevOps
• Preferred: Cloudera Hadoop, Azure Data Lake Storage
• Desired: Power BI, Python

 

Requisition Details

Requisition ID: 16403

 

Hybrid Workplace

SRP currently offers a hybrid workplace, which allows employees whose jobs can be performed remotely, and who have sufficient technical capability, to telework up to three days per week. Although teleworking is available, all employees must live and work in Arizona. We are taking steps to protect the health and well-being of all team members, and by following a number of health and safety protocols, to reduce the risk of the coronavirus (COVID-19).

 

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

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