Flexible Work Policy: The work for the Lead Data Engineer position is completely 100% remote anywhere in the United States except Hawaii or United States Territories.  This position may have the potential to travel up to 20% dependent on business needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Review project objectives and determine best technology to apply;

• Design and build large scale datasets for a wide range of consumer needs;

• Build, test and implement highly efficient data pipelines using a variety of technologies;

• Develop best practice standards for solution design and data structures;

• Analyze new data sources to understand quality, availability and content;

• Write technical design documentation;

• Conducts peer code reviews;

• Create and executes unit tests;

• Supports QA team during testing;

• Mentor less experienced members of the development team.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education/Training:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field required;

• AWS certification preferred

Related Experience:

• 6+ years of professional IT experience;

• 4+ years of data engineering related experience.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:  

• Experience overseeing other developers;

• Proven ability to model data for reporting and analytics needs;

• Proven ability to analyze and understand existing processes and code;

• Works and communicates effectively with all levels of management;

• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills;

• Must work well within team-oriented environments. 

Familiarity with:

• Use of CI/CD tools (Chef, Jenkins, Bamboo, Git/Bitbucket);

• Supporting self-service reporting and analytics;

• Working with semi-structured data.

Proficiency in one or more of the following:

• SQL

• Oracle, MySQL, other relational databases

• Python

• AWS (ERM, Lambda, IAM, S3)

• Linux

Nice to have:

• Snowflake

• Airflow

• R or Pandas

• API development (Mulesoft)

• Machine Learning

• Tableau

• Alteryx

• Kinesis or Kafka

Universal Pay Language:

Compensation depends on relevant experience and/or education, specific skills, function, geographic location, and other factors as applicable by law.  The expected base rate for this role is between $85,000 – $140,000.

This role will also receive annual incentive plan bonus.

​Benefits for this role may include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance. To review available benefits, please click here: https://www.usfoods.com/careers/benefits.html.