Staff Data Engineer - Hybrid, Scalable Pipelines & Quality

National Grid Plc; City of Syracuse (NY); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

National Grid is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to build end-to-end data pipelines and enable business teams with reliable, high-quality data. This hybrid role uses agile practices to deliver scalable data architecture, integrations, and streaming event processing.

As a Staff Data Engineer, you will lead hands-on development for data collection, storage, distribution, modeling, and analysis, shaping priorities and plans across technical work while mentoring engineers and advancing data governance

Qualifications

• Lead the Data Engineering team to develop, test, document, and support scalable data pipelines.
• Build new data integrations, including APIs, to support increases in data volume and complexity.
• Establish and follow data governance processes and guidelines to ensure data availability, usability, consistency, integrity, and security.
• Collaborate with analytics and business teams to improve data models that feed business intelligence tools and support data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Own the assembly of architectural plans and project artifacts, serving as a driver of system architecture beyond individual team scope.
• Execute on large organizational projects and break down work for yourself and others.
• Integrate work across the organization by identifying edge cases and exception states.
• Participate in architectural designs and provide software design expertise on and off the team.
• Seek solutions that extend beyond immediate team needs by generalizing approaches to broader organizational problems where appropriate.
• Understand and incorporate company-wide key technology frameworks, including occasional contribution to core engineering solutions.
• Proactively anticipate what is next for the team and for the organization on the technical roadmap.
• Drive the organization’s technical roadmap by participating in prioritization and planning.

Skills

Data pipelines

APIs

Data governance

Streaming analytics

Mentoring

Job description

National Grid is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to build end-to-end data pipelines and enable business teams with reliable, high-quality data. This hybrid role uses agile practices to deliver scalable data architecture, integrations, and streaming event processing.

As a Staff Data Engineer, you will lead hands-on development for data collection, storage, distribution, modeling, and analysis, shaping priorities and plans across technical work while mentoring engineers and advancing data governance