Senior Data Engineer: Cloud, Real-Time Pipelines (Hybrid)

Entergy Corporation; New Orleans (LA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Entergy Corporation is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in New Orleans to partner with the solution architect on end-to-end data processing solutions in a hybrid environment.

You will design, implement, and govern data pipelines, data models, and integrations across structured and unstructured data, while ensuring security and compliance. The role emphasizes collaboration, cloud capabilities, and rapid delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a data-centric field (Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Systems, Engineering, etc.).
• 6+ years of experience as a data engineer using standard data management principles.
• Experience on AWS GovCloud, the isolated AWS environment serving U.S. federal agencies and housing export controlled data.
• Experience on the AWS Commercial cloud.
• ETL experience.
• Cloud-based computing experience such as AWS or Azure.
• Big data technologies.
• Exposure to data warehousing, mining, analysis, self-service, or machine learning.
• Data governance experience.
• Experience with structured and unstructured data.
• SQL and NoSQL database technologies.
• Data modeling experience.
• Programming and tooling: Python, SQL, Spark.
• Airflow experience.
• Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment; Entergy will not sponsor work visas for this position.
• Proficiency in PC Windows environment (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint).

Responsibilities

• Assess data complexity and design systems and models to support structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, including stream processing.
• Resolve governance and security challenges related to data solutions.
• Analyze data sources and evaluate feasible data pipeline options.
• Contribute to database modeling and design, relational database architecture, metadata and repository creation, and configuration management.
• Design and develop data pipelines or ETL processes.
• Follow and support development of data management policies, standards, and procedures.
• Create integrated views of enterprise data, delivered in real-time and via extracts.
• Package deployments and collaborate with IT to migrate code between Development, QA, and Production environments.
• Support test automation and troubleshoot ETL job functionality, including validating data.
• Create test data and table structures using SQL.
• Work effectively in an agile, rapid delivery environment.
• Collaborate with analytics platform team members to plan strategies for adopting new tools, technologies, and alternative solution architectures, including leveraging the cloud.

Skills

6+ years data engineering experience

Python

SQL

Spark

Airflow

Data governance

Education

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

Tools

AWS GovCloud

AWS Commercial cloud

Azure

ETL tooling

NoSQL databases

Relational databases

Job description

Entergy Corporation is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in New Orleans to partner with the solution architect on end-to-end data processing solutions in a hybrid environment.

You will design, implement, and govern data pipelines, data models, and integrations across structured and unstructured data, while ensuring security and compliance. The role emphasizes collaboration, cloud capabilities, and rapid delivery.