Senior Data Engineer — Hybrid & Scalable Pipelines

National Grid plc; City of Syracuse (NY); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

National Grid is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to join our IT & Digital team in a hybrid role based in Waltham, MA or Brooklyn, NY or Syracuse, NY. You will build end-to-end data pipelines and APIs, modernize data architectures, and ensure data quality for multiple business units.

You will lead the data engineering team, define scalable integrations, govern data usage and security, and partner with analytics to improve BI models and decision making.

Qualifications

• Lead the Data engineering Team to Develop, test, document and support scalable data pipelines.
• Build out new data integrations including APIs to support continuing increases in data volume and complexity.
• Establish and follow data governance processes and guidelines to ensure data availability, usability, consistency, integrity, and security.
• Build and implement scalable solutions that align to our data governance standards and architectural road maps for data integrations, data storage, reporting, and analytic solutions.
• Collaborate with analytics and business teams to improve data models that feed business intelligence tools, increasing data accessibility, and fostering data-driven decision making across the organization.
• Design and develop data integrations and a data quality framework. Write unit/integration/functional tests and document work.
• Design, implement, and automate deployment of our distributed system for collecting and processing streaming events from multiple sources
• Perform data analysis needed to troubleshoot data-related issues and aid in the resolution of data issues.
• Guide and mentor junior engineers on coding best practices and optimization.

Responsibilities

• Own assembling architectural plans and artifacts for projects the org is taking on - a driver of system architecture outside of the team scope.
• Deliver end-to-end data pipelines and APIs.
• Define scalable data integrations and governance.
• Collaborate with analytics to improve BI data models.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote coding best practices.

Skills

Lead data eng team

APIs for data integration

Data governance

Data integration design

BI data models

Testing & documentation

Streaming data pipelines

Mentoring juniors

Job description

National Grid is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to join our IT & Digital team in a hybrid role based in Waltham, MA or Brooklyn, NY or Syracuse, NY. You will build end-to-end data pipelines and APIs, modernize data architectures, and ensure data quality for multiple business units.

You will lead the data engineering team, define scalable integrations, govern data usage and security, and partner with analytics to improve BI models and decision making.