Senior Data Engineer - ML, Geospatial & Cloud Analytics

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Oakland, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary incentive program

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is seeking a senior data solutions professional in the Bay Area to design, develop, and optimize data pipelines and predictive models for risk management. You will mentor staff and collaborate with data owners and leadership across the development cycle.

You will evaluate new technologies including Generative AI and cloud-native platforms to scale analytics and ensure data quality with robust metadata. Hybrid work in the Bay Area.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science, MIS or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7 years of experience with data engineering/ETL ecosystems such as Palantir Foundry, Spark, Informatica, SAP BODS, OBIEE.
• Experience with multiple data engineering/ETL ecosystems.
• Experience with machine learning algorithm deployment.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Leadership experience, development teams
• Cloud-native data platform experience
• Knowledge of software engineering principals such as unit testing, CI/CD, source control.
• Generative AI experience, including LLMs, RAG, and agentic workflows
• Geospatial data engineering experience, including spatial analytics and satellite imagery products

Responsibilities

• Leads a team on moderately complex to complex data and analytics-centric problems having broad impact.
• May contribute to the resolution of uniquely complex data and analytics-centric problems having significant impact.
• Identifies, designs and implements internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes.
• Resolves application programming analysis problems of broad scope within procedural guidelines.
• Evaluates emerging technologies, including Generative AI solutions, to improve data engineering, analytics, and business processes.
• Provides assistance to other programmers/analysts on unusual or especially complex problems that cross multiple functional/technology areas.
• Conceptualizes and generates infrastructure that allows big data to be accessed and analyzed with verified data quality and metadata is appropriately captured and catalogued.
• Collaborates with peers to develop departmental standards, norms, and new goals/objectives.
• Plans work to meet assigned general objectives; reviews progress regularly and solutions may provide an opportunity for creative/non-standard approaches.
• Assesses data pipeline performance and suggests/implements changes as required.
• Communicates (oral and written) recommendations.
• Mentors/provides guidance to less experienced colleagues.

Skills

Team leadership

Data modeling

Problem solving

Communication

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science, MIS or related field

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Data Science

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Spark

Informatica

SAP BODS

OBIEE

Job description

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is seeking a senior data solutions professional in the Bay Area to design, develop, and optimize data pipelines and predictive models for risk management. You will mentor staff and collaborate with data owners and leadership across the development cycle.

You will evaluate new technologies including Generative AI and cloud-native platforms to scale analytics and ensure data quality with robust metadata. Hybrid work in the Bay Area.