Senior Spark Data Engineer - Remote

Overview

As a Senior Spark Data Engineer at FirstEnergy, you will work on an Agile team that is digitally enabling the company by building data pipelines that drive analytic solutions.

In Short

• Serve as the subject matter expert in technologies used for our data strategy in the cloud.
• Design, develop, optimize, and maintain data architecture and pipelines that adhere to ETL principles and business goals.
• Solve complex data problems to deliver insights that helps the organization's business to achieve their goals.
• Create data products for analytics and data scientist team members to improve their productivity.
• Advise, consult, mentor and coach other data and analytic professionals on data standards and practices.
• Foster a culture of sharing, re-use, design for scale stability, and operational efficiency of data and analytical solutions.
• Lead the evaluation, implementation and deployment of emerging tools and process for analytic data engineering to improve the organization's productivity as a team.
• Partner with business analysts and solutions architects to develop technical architectures for strategic enterprise projects and initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline such as Computer Science, MIS or related field with 10 years of related experience.
• Strong knowledge of using Spark for fast imagery and big data processing.
• Expert knowledge in managing and tuning of Data Lake and Lakehouse storage objects with accompanying data engineering pipelines.
• Expert knowledge in Python and SQL development and troubleshooting.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum development with DevOps methodologies geared toward rapid prototyping and piloting of cloud solutions.
• Unix/Linux experience is preferred.
• Experience in creating, analyzing and documenting ER and Dimensional models.
• Understanding of data replication tools.
• Experience in designing and/or developing Analytics applications using tools such as Power BI, QlikView, SAS, RapidMiner or other comparable products.
• Willingness to travel throughout organization and service territory and work extended hours, as required.

Benefits

• Competitive pay plus incentive compensation.
• Company-sponsored pension plan.
• 401(k) savings plan with matching employer contribution.
• Choice of medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, and life insurance programs.
• Skills development training with tuition reimbursement.