Senior Data Engineer

Burlington Coat Factory Whse. Corp.; United States; On-site; USD 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) plan

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Burlington Stores, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the Enterprise Data and Analytics team. You will design, build, and scale ETL pipelines, pull data from internal and external sources, and prepare it for advanced analytics, segmentation, and AI/ML initiatives.

This role focuses on real-time data ingestion, data warehousing, and cloud platforms like Snowflake and Azure. Strong SQL, data modeling, and communication skills are essential as you mentor teammates and collaborate with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, or related areas.
• 5+ years designing and implementing large-scale data loading, processing, and analytics solutions.
• Extensive experience with SQL-based data processing and data architectures (data warehouse, lakes, marts).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement ETL/ELT pipelines from multiple sources for analytics and AI/ML use.
• Lead real-time data ingestion and scalable data pipelines.
• Collaborate with data scientists, cloud engineers, and analytics translators on data solutions.
• Mentor junior team members and advocate best practices in data management.
• Provide input to data architecture and cloud data platform enhancements.

Skills

Data wrangling

Advanced SQL

First/third party data

Agile development

Data governance

Excellent communication

AI in data workflows

Strategic thinking

Data management principles

Cloud data platforms

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering, Informatics

Tools

Snowflake

Oracle DB

Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)

GitHub / CI/CD

Job description

Position Overview

Come join our growing team of data practitioners and be on the leading edge of Burlington’s digital transformation! Burlington is seeking a self-driven and highly motivated individual to join a dynamic team with a passion for data, software, and engineering. At Burlington you will have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies in a goal-oriented environment. The Senior Data Engineer is a member of the Enterprise Data and Analytics team supporting business areas including Merchandising, Allocations, Marketing, IT and Supply Chain Analytics teams with insights gained from analyzing Burlington and external data. The successful candidate will have strong experience pulling data from various internal and external data sources and preparing it for advanced analytics, segmentation, and modeling. Must have strong interpersonal and relationship building skills as well as written and verbal communication skills.

A Day in the Life

• Design and Develop ETL to extract data from first and third-party data sources, stitch, and wrangle it for advanced analytics activities and AI/ML and GenAI uses.


• Guide and lead development of data pipelines to enable real-time, high volume, data consumption.


• Leverage data engineering best practices and tools in collaboration with analytics translators, data scientists, and cloud engineers.


• Assist with researching first and third-party data sources to enable access and ensure availability of relevant data sources for those who need it.


• Provide input to cloud engineers for the design and implementation of data management and/or architecture solutions.


• Provide ongoing operational support for ETL/ELT environments including development, test, and production.


• Design, implement, and deploy data loaders to load data into the cloud data platform.


• Assist in pulling, filtering, tagging, joining, parsing, and normalizing data sets for use.


• Mentoring junior members of the team.

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering, Informatics, or related areas.

Experience

• 5+ years of experience in designing and implementing large scale data loading, manipulation, processing, analysis, and exploration solutions.


• Extensive experience developing SQL based data processing.


• 5+ years of experience with Data Architecture, Data Warehouse, Lake Houses, Data Lake, Data Marts and Data Stores with focus on AI/ML techniques and LLMs.


• Experience with Snowflake and Oracle Databases as well as Azure and ADLS.


• Experience in development & provisioning RESTful APIs to enable real-time data consumption.


• Experience with source control tools such as GitHub and related CI/CD processes.

Skills and Abilities

• Technical expertise with pulling and massaging data


• Great understanding of first/third party data


• Agile Development methodology


• Database Normalization


• Advanced SQL skills


• Understanding of data management principles and processes


• Passion for data, analytics and pushing business innovation


• Strategic thinker who loves technology and innovation


• Excellent communication skills


• AI-based development for data workflows, data wrangling, and code-assist

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Informatica IDMC


• Experience with GenAI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) frameworks


• Experience with real-time and streaming technology (i.e. Azure Event Hubs, Azure Functions Kafka, Spark Streaming)


• Unix / Linux


• Experience with CI/CD practices


• Previous experience with DevOps


• Experience with Python / Java programming languages


• Experience with one or more enterprise scheduler


• Experience with AI-based testing, experimentation and prototyping


• Retail or CPG experience preferred

Benefits and Compensation

• Burlington’s benefits package includes medical, dental and vision coverage including life and disability insurance.


• Full-time associates are also eligible for paid time off, paid holidays and a 401(k) plan.


• We are a rapidly growing brand and provide a variety of training and development opportunities so our associates can grow with us.


• Our teams work hard and have fun together!


• Burlington associates make a difference in the lives of customers, colleagues, and the communities where we live and work every day.


• Compensation Range: $80,000.00 - $105,000.00

Burlington Stores, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity

Individual pay decisions will be based on a variety of factors, such as but not limited to, qualifications, education, job-related skills, relevant experience, and geographic location.

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