Senior Data Engineer

NFI Industries; Camden (NJ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NFI Industries is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and manage data architectures and pipelines for enterprise data used across multiple business units and external customers.

You will lead end-to-end analytics projects, collaborating with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable data solutions and high-performance data repositories. This role emphasizes delivering timely insights and robust data governance.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree strongly preferred, will consider comparable work experience.
• 6-8 years of relevant experience is preferred.
• Understands and makes well-reasoned decisions within their area of expertise.
• Demonstrates knowledge of industry trends and seeks external expertise to accelerate learning.
• Clarifies success metrics and ties efforts toward delivering business value.
• Emerging understanding of broader organizational context and goals.

Responsibilities

• Develops strategies for data acquisition, archival, and recovery.
• Translates business needs into long-term data and architecture solutions.
• Leads enterprise data architectures and end-to-end analytics projects.
• Designs and communicates data solutions to business and technical stakeholders.
• Partners with teams to define data acquisition, transformation, and processing.
• Ensures adoption and support of data architecture priorities across teams.
• Designs data models and repositories for high performance access.
• Builds dimensional databases and data pipelines for analytics.
• Reviews and troubleshoots database structures and code.
• Creates prototypes and proofs of concept for iterative development.
• Monitors and optimizes data pipelines and repositories performance.
• Provides technical guidance to developers and data admins.
• Performs other duties as required by management.

Skills

Data architecture

ETL & data pipelines

SQL & database design

Stakeholder communication

Data governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Big data platforms

Cloud data platforms (AWS/Azure)

Job description

Overview

As a member of the Data and Development team within the Information Technology organization, the Senior Data Engineer is directly responsible for designing, creating, deploying, and managing data architectures, storage, integration, and consumption of enterprise data managed by different data entities and IT systems, as well as any applications using or processing that data. This is a key role in our mission to deliver the right information at the right time to our internal business units and external customers.

Responsibilities

• Develops strategies for data acquisition, archival, and recovery
• In consultation with stakeholders, translates business needs into long-term data and architecture solutions
• Leads the implementation of enterprise data architectures, delivering end-to-end analytics projects from data ingest through data data visualization
• Develops, documents, and clearly communicates solutions architectures to both business and technical stakeholders at all levels, building consensus with strong interpersonal and presentation skills
• Supports operational and analytics initiatives throughout NFI by partnering with various teams to define and execute data acquisition, transformation, and processing to make data accessible and actionable
• Ensures adoption and support of data architecture priorities by collaborating with data engineers, developers, and IT managers
• Designs and develops object and data models and data repositories structured for optimized management and high performance access
• Defines, designs, and builds dimensional databases and data pipelines to support analytics projects
• Reviews, tests, and troubleshoots database structures and code
• Creates prototypes and proofs of concept for iterative development
• Monitors and optimizes enterprise data pipelines and repositories performance
• Provide technical guidance and support to developers, data engineers, and data administrators
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as required by the role and determined by management.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree strongly preferred, will consider comparable work experience.
• 6-8 years of relevant experience is preferred.
• Understands and makes well-reasoned decisions and tradeoffs within their area of expertise.
• Demonstrates knowledge of industry trends and regularly seeks external expertise to accelerate their learning.
• Clarifies success metrics and ties efforts toward delivering business value.
• Emerging understanding of broader organizational context and goals.
• An understanding of impact and success metrics helps to focus their efforts, as well as those of their function.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

LA County Applicants: The Company will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.

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