Senior Data Engineer

Dallas, TX, United States

We are Builders FirstSource, America’s largest supplier of building materials, value-added components and building services to the professional market. You’ll feel proud of the work you do here every day to transform the future of home building and help make the dream of home ownership more achievable. At BFS, we believe building a successful career is not solely defined by a degree. Your experience, skills, and passion are just as important, if not more so. As such, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that welcomes candidates from all backgrounds and experience levels.

We are looking for top-notch technology savvy specialists to help us drive our data platform to the next level. In this role, you will bring experience using Kafka and other advanced technology stack elements to harden existing platforms and implement new solutions while working alongside other technology enthusiasts to build a world-class DataOps team.

From preliminary business requirements and solution architectures, conduct feasibility analysis and utilize extensive technical knowledge, creativity, and judgment in exploring possible high-level solution designs. Produces software designs to meet complex requirements within time and cost constraints. Ensures technical documentation reflects changes to application functionality or implementation choices. Plans, conducts, and supervises assignments. Reviews progress and results and communicates with management. Leverages team skills for successful project completion

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Leads moderately complex projects (e.g., short to medium time horizon, applying existing architectures or models) from technical design through completion; deeply familiar with working in a dev ops structure/ environment.

Acts as an on-call SME resource to manage admin failure and messaging events.

Tests, and executes pre-defined ETL processes on standard data sets.

Assists the research, troubleshooting, and resolution of data issues impacting extract delivery.

Understands requirements regarding solutions, ensure data quality and match-back to core systems transaction results.

Performs data validation, unit testing and troubleshooting for data model usability.

Supports data architecture development and optimizes data pipelines to store, integrate and process high-volume data sets.

Performs code reviews for others in project.

Collaborates with Data Scientists to ensure architectural and project specification needs are being met.

Conducts necessary data transformations to populate data into a warehouse table structure that is optimized for reporting.

Isolates and defines core reusable data assets that support the long-term business strategy for development efforts.

Reviews data analysis; and data mapping logic; identifies recurring causes for defects and works proactively to resolve issues; reviews fixes with MDM/ Data Governance teams.

Identifies methods for collecting data and performs data analyses.

Communicates analytical findings, including through reports, briefings, presentations, and data visualization.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Minimum Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university.

4+ years relevant work experience.

Proficiency in Python

Experience in SQL

Strong Linux Skills

Understanding of event streams / message queues / and batch data pipelines

Understanding of distributed systems and their tradeoffs

Hands-on experience with orchestration and automation tools such as Kubernetes, Docker or Ansible

Understanding of data Modelling and data Concepts like data warehouse, marts etc.

Very good English (verbal and written)

Experience with version control system (GIT, Azure Devops, SVN)

COMPETENCIES

Evaluates Problems: Evaluates and analyzes different types of information objectively to identify appropriate solutions; writes fluently, establishing the key facts clearly and interprets numerical data effectively.

Technical Communication/ Presentation: Communicates with clarity and precision, presenting complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate.

Adjusting and Driving Change: Takes a positive approach to tackling work and embraces change; invites feedback relating to performance and deals constructively with criticism. Identifies the need for and drives change when required to achieve objectives.

Focuses on Customers: Understands and anticipates customer needs and takes action to provide high-quality products and services to exceed expectations.

Demonstrates Business Acumen: Demonstrates working knowledge of market, economic, legal, and regulatory environments and how they impact the business.

Agile Best Practices: Understands how agility is leveraged in IT ways of working. Adopts agile best practices as appropriate throughout the assigned work lifecycle. Responds to feedback quickly based on comments of internal and external customers and needs of the market.

Bias for Action: Takes initiative and identifies what needs to be done and acts without waiting to be asked. Executes work in a timely manner. Suggests improvements to current ways of working.

BFS COMPETENCIES

Business and Financial Acumen

Demonstrates depth of understanding for the P&L and financial analysis

Teaches business and financial acumen to others.

Understands KPIs and how BFS makes money.

Knows the different business segments and how they relate to one another.

Understands customer sales and engagement.

Demonstrates functional and/or technical expertise.

Understands complex issues and demonstrates problem solving skills.

Understands how to maximize business results regardless of industry cycle.

Results Driven

Holds self and others accountable.

Communicates and sets clear goals with plans to deliver.

Manages competing priorities effectively.

Demonstrates appropriate urgency.

Drives to exceed expectations in alignment with our BFS SPICE values.

Embraces and follows best practices.

Demonstrates self-starter, can-do attitude.

Strategic Thinking and Decision Making

Leverages resources and teams around them to solve problems and create mutually beneficial outcomes.

Demonstrates willingness and courage to make tough decisions in a timely manner.

Balances short-and-long term priorities

Demonstrates proactive versus reactive thinking.

Asks questions to identify root cause and analyze situations more accurately.

Servant Leadership

Demonstrates humility by putting others first.

Builds trust-based relationships.

Leads by example with kindness and respect.

Collaborates well across all areas of the business.

Advocates for others

Actively listens to understand the meaning and intent of what the other person is communicating.

Demonstrates authenticity and encourages others to do the same.

Emotional Intelligence

Demonstrates situational awareness – knows when and how to adjust leadership style in different situations.

Demonstrates self-awareness – understands strengths and weaknesses.

Demonstrates empathy – puts themselves in other’s shoes.

Assumes positive intent.

Develops and Leads Others

Drives alignment through clear communication of vision, goals, and expectations.

Invests time on a regular basis in performance feedback and developmental conversations.

Fosters a respectful and inclusive environment.

Empowers, motivates, and inspires others.

Coaches and mentor others for their development.

Guides and persuades others to deliver positive outcomes.

Growth Mindset

Demonstrates a growth mindset; takes appropriate risks, fails fast and forward, learns from mistakes.

Perseveres and champions growth, even in the face of resistance, ambiguity, or possible failure.

Thinks like an owner with an entrepreneurial spirit.

Demonstrates and encourages intellectual curiosity.

Continuous learner; seeks opportunities and knowledge for personal and professional growth.

Sees possibilities over problems – actively seeks solutions.

Innovation

Encourages out-of-the box thinking to create new ways of doing things.

Continuously seeks to improve and simplify pain points in the business.

Anticipates, embraces, and leads change.

Develops and executes breakthrough strategies.

Integrity

Does the right thing even under challenging circumstances?

Communicates with honesty.

Consistently treats others fairly and equitably.

Demonstrates reliability and does what they say they will do.

Conducts tough conversations and delivers difficult messages with kindness and respect.

WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Subject to both typical office environment and outside locations with temperature and weather variations.

Must be able to lift and carry up to 25 pounds.

Occasional travel may be required.

Successful, innovative, and fulfilling careers are built here, and your professional development is a high priority. We invest in your future through the latest training, tools, and technologies. Highly collaborative, we work together to solve problems and find better ways to continually grow our business and careers every day. You’ll be empowered to try new things, gain new experiences, and build a career with unlimited horizons. The scale and depth of resources that being the #1 building materials distributor in the nation provides a variety of opportunities for you to explore – all in a friendly, people-first environment. Join us to be more, do more, and build more, together at BFS.

In addition to the base wage listed, this position is also eligible to earn an annual bonus subject to changes in plan design and documents and in accordance with applicable law. Eligibility and the amount of the bonus varies based on overall company success, thresholds met and other terms and conditions of the Company’s active bonus policy for the respective year.

Full-Time Team Members are eligible for company benefits, including

Three Medical plan options

Dental & Vision

Critical Care

Accident & Hospital insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts for Health & Dependent Care

Health Savings Account

401(k) with company match

Vacation & Sick Time

Paid company holidays

Company Paid Life & AD&D

Supplemental Life

Short & Long Term Disability

Bereavement

Paid Parental Leave

Team Member Assistance Program

All benefits are subject to change pursuant to state and federal guidelines.

Builders FirstSource is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability.

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