Senior Data Engineer
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Job Description

The Senior Data Engineer will be part of a key team of Nordstrom Technology professionals that applies scientific, mathematical and social principles to design, build, and maintain technology products, devices, systems and solutions. These technology products and solutions provide amazing customer experiences while meeting the needs of the business. The Data Engineer will focus on leading the design and development of business intelligence, ETL and database solutions. The ideal candidate is creative, customer-driven and has a passion for supporting supply chain BI solutions.

A day in the life...

* Responsible for building real time data streams, Ingest data from heterogeneous data sources and publish them as enterprise business events in a distributed message stream such as Kafka.
* Building optimized Caching layers to be able to support the SLA requirements for Tier 1 consumers supporting the Nordstrom website operations.
* Building, deploying and supporting comprehensive data audit frameworks, Telemtery [Alerts & Metrics] dashboards showing the health of the service.
* Mentor Junior engineers and drive end to end design, implementation and delivery of engineering components.
* Experience in Deploying, maintaining and building apps on distributed stream processing engines such as Storm, Nifi, Spark etc.
* Experience working with container management technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes.
* Strive for continuous improvement of code quality and development practices
* Willingness to adapt to and self learn new technologies and deliver on them.
* Building and maintaining solutions on highly available environments.
* Working knowledge of CI/CD.
* Working knowledge of building telemetry and data integrity checks as part of delivery of applications.
* Technical expertise to build code that is performant as well as secure.
* Technical depth and vision to perform POC's and evaluate different technologies.
* Understand, leverage and applies best practices effectively. Also leads by example and comes up with coding standards and best practices for technology.
* Translate business issues to technical terms.
* Experience building data transformation layers, ETL frameworks using big data technologies such as Hive, Spark, Presto etc.

You own this if you…

* 5-7 years of professional experience in practice area.
* Proven high level of expertise in Java and related technology stacks.
* Cloud Computing Experience (e.g AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
* Proven proficiency in API development (REST).
* Good Working knowledge of Apache Kafka.
* Good working knowledge of containerized technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes.
* Working knowledge of big data technologies such as Apache Strom, Hive, Nifi, Spark and other relational data stores.
* BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
* Agile software development experience.
* Experience working in a metrics driven environment.
* Prior experience with machine learning algorithm implementation is a plus.

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We've got you covered…

Our employees are our most important asset and that's reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:

* Health
* Retirement
* Time Off
* Merchandise Discount
* Lifework / EAP resources

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