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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.
- 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 the overall code base, and support the establishment of standard processes and frameworks
- Take an open and transparent approach to the work by sharing code and expertise, by consulting peers for problem-solving, and by being a mentor to your peers
- Participate in agile project execution and provide accurate work effort estimates
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies, open source projects, and best practices in the field
- Apply excellent communications skills, creativity and practical knowledge to benefit our customers
- Demonstrate a personal commitment to a high-performance environment.
- Fully understand Ingram Micro’s policies and procedures and act in accordance with all company policies.
- Adhere and follow Ingram Micro’s values – Innovation, Accountability, Integrity, Teamwork and Respect, Learning and Social responsibility.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or Relevant Science and Math disciplines with an IT emphasis
- 8+ years of relevant technical experience, with at least 5+ years of experience with real-time data manipulation, web services development and middleware applications
- Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
- Experience building real-time, near real-time data pipelines and optimizing end to end latency for application access, optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets.
- Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
- Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.
- A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.
- Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.
- Experience with big data tools: Spark, Kafka, etc.
- Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
- Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
- Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
- Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java etc.
- Experience with ETL; Informatica, MS SSIS, SAP Data Services, etc.
- Experience with secure cloud services platform for Data Management and Integration.
- Relevant GCP/Azure/AWS cloud experience designing, building and operating large data pipelines at scale
The ranges above reflect the potential annual base pay across the U.S. for all roles; the applicable base pay range will depend on the candidate’s primary work location, pay grade, and variable compensation plan. Individual base pay within each range depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time of hire. New hires starting base pay generally falls in the bottom half (between the minimum and midpoint) of a pay range.
At Ingram Micro certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, annual bonus or sales incentives and long-term incentives. These awards are allocated based on position level and individual performance. U.S.-based employees have access to healthcare benefits, paid time off, parental leave, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and wellbeing benefits, among others.
This is not a complete listing of the job duties. It’s a representation of the things you will be doing, and you may not perform all these duties.
Please be prepared to pass a drug test and successfully pass a pre-employment (post offer) background check.
Ingram Micro believes there is no place in our society for social injustice, discrimination, or racism. As a company we do not – and will not – tolerate these actions.
Ingram Micro Inc. is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law.
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