Data Engineer, Senior

Entergy; New Orleans (LA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Entergy is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join its data platform team in New Orleans. You will collaborate with the solution architect and data engineers to design and deliver scalable data solutions across enterprise data sets.

The role emphasizes end-to-end data processing, data modeling, and governance, with cloud adoption and secure data delivery to internal stakeholders. A strong focus on analytics readiness and collaboration is expected.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience as a data engineer using standard data management principles.
• Experience on AWS GovCloud and AWS Commercial cloud.
• ETL experience and cloud-based computing (AWS/Azure).
• Strong SQL and NoSQL database knowledge; data modeling and governance.

Responsibilities

• Understand and design systems for multiple data sources/formats (structured, semi-structured, unstructured, and streams).
• Address governance and security challenges of solutions.
• Analyze data sources and design feasible data pipeline solutions; model and design databases.

Skills

ETL

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

Big data technologies

Data warehousing

Data Governance

Structured/Unstructured Data

SQL/NoSQL

Data Modeling

Python

Spark

Airflow

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in data-centric field

Tools

AWS GovCloud

AWS

Azure

Job description

• The referred location for position is New Orleans, The Woodlands, Texas will be considered***

Job Title:

Data Engineer, Senior

Work Place Flexibility:

Hybrid

Legal Entity:

Entergy Services, LLC

Job Summary/Purpose

The Data Engineer Senior is an integral member of the data platform team, assisting the solution architect to drive end-to-end technical design. The Data Engineer Senior interacts with the solution architect to understand the business stakeholder’s business and functional requirements and leads with the data engineers within the product team to design and deliver technical solutions, leveraging the data analytics platform where possible. The Data Engineer Senior’s key knowledge set includes system agile development life cycle, integration architectures, technology tools,database architectures, datamanagementprinciples,data modelling techniques and methodologies, communication andproblem solving. The Data Engineer Senior will assist the solution architect to design and implement large scale, enterprise-wide data processing solutions, database schemas and interfaces to relational and non-relational databases.The Data Engineer Senior will also implement and test the overall architectural solution by ingesting, cleaning, and organizing data into information used by analytics product. The goal is to provide data that is reliable, predictable, cost effective and secure to internal stakeholders within our data platform.

The Data Engineer Senior will work with other team members on the data analytics platform team to create plans and strategies for adopting new tools, technologies, and alternative solution architectures including leveraging the cloud.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Understand the complexity of data and design systems and models to handle different data sources/formats, which includes structured, semi-structured, and unstructured, as well as stream processing.
• Address governance and security challenges associated with solutions.
• Analyze data sources, design and evaluate feasible data pipeline solutions. The solutions might include database modeling and design, relational database architecture, metadata and repository creation and configuration management.
• Design and develop data pipelines or ETL processes.
• Support and adhere to the development of data management policies, standards and procedures.
• Define integrated views of data drawing together data from across the enterprise, both in real-time and as extracts.
• Package deployments and collaborate with IT to migrate code between Development, Quality Assurance (QA), and Production environments.
• Support test automation, troubleshooting ETL job functionality, validating data, as well as create test data and table structures through use of SQL.
• Must be able to work in an agile, rapid delivery environment.

Minimum Requirements

Minimum education required of the position

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in a data-centric field: Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Systems, Information Processing, Engineering, etc.

Minimum Experience Required Of The Position

6+ years of experience as a data engineer utilizing standard data management principles. The Data Engineer should have experience on AWS GovCloud, the isolated AWS environment serving U.S. federal agencies and housing export controlled data, as well as the AWS Commercial cloud.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Required Of The Position

• ETL experience
• Cloud Based Computing such as AWS or Azure
• Big data technologies
• Data warehousing, mining, analysis, self-service, or machine learning
• Data Governance
• Structured and Unstructured Data
• SQL and NoSQL database technologies
• Data Modelling
• Python, SQL, Spark
• Airflow

General Capabilities

Skills and abilities required of the position

Functional Knowledge

• Requires conceptual and practical expertise in own discipline and basic knowledge of related disciplines.
• Strong communicator at the technical levels.
• Strong, demonstrated writing and presentation skills.

Business Expertise

• Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market.

Leadership

• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience; may lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements.

Problem Solving

• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.

Impact

• Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams; works within broad guidelines and policies.

Interpersonal Skills

• Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Required Of The Position

• Proficiency in PC Windows environment (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint)

Any Certificates, Licenses, Etc. Required For The Position

None

Primary Location:

Louisiana-New Orleans Louisiana : New Orleans || Texas : Woodlands

Job Function

Engineering

FLSA Status

Professional

Union description/code

NON BARGAINING UNIT

Number of Openings

1

Req ID:

124395

Travel Percentage

Up to 25%

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets.

EEO Statement:

The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

Accessibility:

Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf. If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process, Employee Services will contact you regarding your request.

Additional Responsibilities:

As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

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The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment. Please contact [e-mail] to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Please note:

Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.