Sr Data Engineer

About PHOENIX 

PHOENIX Retail, LLC is a Direct-to-Consumer platform operating EXPRESS and BONOBOS in the United States. Grounded in a belief that style, quality and value should all be found in one place, Express is a brand with a purpose - We Create Confidence. We Inspire Self-Expression. - powered by a styling community. Bonobos is a menswear brand known for being pioneers of exceptional fit and a personalized, innovative retail model. Customers can experience our brands in over 400 Express retail and Express Factory Outlet stores, 50 Bonobos Guideshops, and online at www.express.com and www.bonobos.com.

Express has an exciting opportunity for a curious, motivated, forward thinking, analytical software senior data engineer to join and shape the future of the Enterprise Data team for the Enterprise Data department. The Sr. Data Engineer will work on developing exciting solutions on a day-to-day basis. Through developing these solutions, you will help drive foundational transformation in the Enterprise Data organization.     

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Learning agility – growth mindset and eager to explore the unknown and learn new concepts
• Develops, tests, debugs and implements new/existing data solutions, which includes technologies such as Python, Scala, Spark and other technologies 
• Immediate response to critical batch interruptions and production incidents to quickly identify and mitigate issues, with follow up to automate with self-healing code
• Participation in an on-call rotation to deliver 24/7 system uptime and immediate issue mitigation as the first line of defense against system interruptions, including escalation to second line support as appropriate
• Passionate about problem solving – relentless, enthusiastic pursuit of solutions to challenges ranging from basic day to day incidents to complex, multi-system, integrated puzzles involving code and data components
• Spreading a culture of collaboration, modern automation thinking, and a solution-oriented mindset
• Partnering with data and application development teams to identify opportunities for process refinement and standards improvement
• Building data solutions with Scala, SQL, BASH, and other technologies
• Monitors, analyzes, reports and troubleshoots the existing big data platform
• Work with your supervisor and business partners on identifying priority, dependencies, and conflict resolution
• First-tier support for enterprise data and marketing technology including production job monitoring and troubleshooting
• Triage of production issues including mitigation of incidents, data collisions, and job failures
• Creation and execution of runbooks to resolve issues
• Escalation to second-tier support for complex issues as needed
• Identification of candidate processes to automate and improve
• Cross-team collaboration including technical data and applications teams
• Championing Data Integrity as a culture and educating developers on processes to build support within the department
• Identification of and advocacy for resolution of accumulated technical debt
• Document ETL processes and flows.
• Participation in agile ceremonies including backlog prioritization, sprint planning, and retros to drive continuous improvement

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree in IT or an equivalent combination of course work and experience
• 3-5 years of experience working in/with software development
• 3-5 years of experience with Hive, BigQuery, Scala, Spark, Python, Java, Enterprise Scheduling tools
• 3-5 years of experience with Cloud Computing
• 3-5 years of experience with *nix environments including scripting and system administration
• 3-5 years of experience working SQL or NoSQL databases including writing and debugging complex queries
• Outstanding analytical skills and passionate about problem solving with a positive attitude
• Familiarity with data needs, integration and governance across a global organization at a meta-data level
• Familiarity with the areas and concepts in Master Data Management, Data Warehousing, Analytics, ERP, and CRM
• Embraces both change and challenge as opportunity – views complexity as puzzle games and enjoys troubleshooting multi-variate problems
• Dependable and reliable for production support rotations including on-call duties and 24-7 support of critical enterprise jobs and data flows
• Experience with enterprise workload automation and job scheduling tools such as Control-M, JAMS, CA Workload Automation, Tidal Enterprise Scheduler, or similar
• Excels in a fast-paced environment, comfortable navigating through ambiguity, thrives under pressure
• Ability to multitask and manage multiple priorities effectively
• Retail industry experience preferred but not required
• Hands-on experience with cloud computing, preferably Google Cloud Platform
• Familiarity with repository/build/deployment tools

CRITICAL SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES

• Excels in a fast-paced environment, comfortable navigating through ambiguity, thrives under pressure
• Ability to multitask and manage multiple priorities effectively
• Outstanding analytical skills and passionate about problem solving with a positive attitude
• Embraces both change and challenge as opportunity – views complexity as puzzle games and enjoys troubleshooting multi-variate problems
• Dependable and reliable for production support rotations including on-call duties and 24-7 support of critical enterprise jobs and data flows

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