Lead Data Engineer - Athlete (REMOTE)

DICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 95,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

DICK'S Sporting Goods seeks a Lead Data Engineer to support data flows and marketing functions. You will be responsible for building and maintaining complex data structures, ensuring efficient data movement, and acting as a subject matter expert. The role demands significant experience and offers a competitive salary.

Benefits

Competitive total rewards package

Generous suite of benefits

Qualifications

• Master's Degree or equivalent level preferred.
• General Experience: 6 to 10 years in own area of expertise.

Responsibilities

• Design complex data infrastructures and create performance-tuned applications.
• Drive modeling of complex data structures for analysis.
• Document and analyze datasets ensuring quality and lineage.

Skills

Data Movement

Data Architecture

Infrastructure Development

Information Security

Technical Development

Feasibility Studies

Education

Master's Degree or equivalent

Job description

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Lead Data Engineer - Athlete (REMOTE)

Apply locations Remote - US time type Full time posted on Posted 5 Days Ago job requisition id 202509072

At DICK’S Sporting Goods, we believe in how positively sports can change lives. On our team, everyone plays a critical role in creating confidence and excitement by personally equipping all athletes to achieve their dreams. We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce, reflecting the communities we serve.

If you are ready to make a difference as part of the world’s greatest sports team, apply to join our team today!

OVERVIEW:

OVERVIEW:

This team supports a wide array of data sources, inbound and outbound. They collaborate with vendors to build and maintain ingress and egress data flows. This data supports marketing functions that do not necessarily relate to others, so the ability to go deep and broad quickly is crucial to this role.

The Lead Data Engineer will act as a SME for a data domain to support the enterprise's business needs. Design patterns and coordinating solutions with moderate complexity within assigned product team.

• Data Movement: Design distribution of complex data infrastructure resources and create advanced physical modeling and design services to tune database applications for optimum performance

• Data Architecture: Drive the modeling of highly complex data structures that allow for easy consumption and analysis. Select the appropriate technology for the implementation of solutions, leveraging a clear understanding of industry best practices and trends.

• Data Set Exploration and Documentation: Drive the analysis, documentation and articulation of highly complex datasets while establishing quality and the lineage of the data.

• Functional/Technical Requirements: Support the collection functional requirements using document analysis and workflow analysis to express the requirements in terms of target user roles and goals.

• Program/Portfolio Management Support: Contribute to the management of a portfolio of programs while reporting to and in partnership with senior teammates.

• Ongoing Learning and Development: Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team. Maintain external accreditations and in- depth understanding of current and emerging external regulation and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media

• Analysis of Current vs. Future State: Document Current vs. Future state processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the future-state capability to record accurately the change required

• Infrastructure and Network Development and Maintenance : Design and select business-critical storage, data center, and client/server environments to design solutions in line with industry best practice and provide a third-line point of escalation for appropriate global infrastructure solutions.

• Information Security and Compliance: Creates and implements best practices for safely and securely moving data. Configures infrastructure utilizing department standards for access controls, firewall rules and storage.

• Technical Developments Recommendation: Discuss and recommend more complex or innovative solutions to better meet users’ and/or business, performance, quality needs

• Operational Compliance: Maintain and renew a deep knowledge and understanding of the organization's policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, and ensure own work adheres to required standards

• Enterprise Infrastructure Modernization: Drive advances in technologies and architectures to increase the value delivered by technology and digital capabilities, either through improvements to the

  efficiency of technology environment or through those that reduce the total cost of technology operations. Recommend and participate in activities related to the design, development and maintenance of the digital capabilities within the enterprise architecture.

• Horizon Scanning: Explore and develop a detailed understanding of external developments or emerging issues and evaluate their potential impact on, or usefulness to, the organization.

• Feasibility Studies: Conduct feasibility studies from a technological and organizational perspective and document findings to complete cost-benefit analysis on implementing changes to business processes, products, or business unit structure.

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QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's Degree or equivalent level preferred

• General Experience: Substantial general work experience together with comprehensive job related experience in own area of expertise to fully competent level. (Over 6 years to 10 years )

Targeted Pay Range: $95,200.00 - $158,800.00. This is part of a competitive total rewards package that could include other components such as: incentive, equity and benefits. Individual pay is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all teammate pay regularly to ensure competitive and equitable pay.DICK'S Sporting Goods complies with all state paid leave requirements. We also offer a generous suite of benefits. To learn more, visit www.benefityourliferesources.com.