Senior/Principal Data Engineer
Austin, TX

Job Description

Job Description

We're Equinor, an international energy company with a proud history. Formerly Statoil, we are 20,000 committed colleagues developing oil, gas, wind and solar energy in more than 30 countries worldwide. We're the largest operator in Norway, among the world's largest offshore operators, and a growing force in renewables. Driven by our Nordic urge to explore beyond the horizon, and our dedication to safety, equality and sustainability, we're building a global business on our values and the energy needs of the future.

GBS is the internal provider of global business support services to the Equinor group. GBS delivers services and expertise within finance and control, IT, HR, facility management, project deliveries, safety and sustainability, communication and management system. Our value proposition is: Equinor's success is our business. Our key priorities are to make Equinor's business easier, deliver better, faster and cost efficient services, adding value through sharing and balancing the business' demand with corporate priorities. Building a sustainable GBS is our ambition.

Job Description

Integrate and deliver the data into modern such as data lakes with a focus on data ingestion/acquisition, modeling and preparation processes

Work and collaborate closely with leading advisors, data architects, data scientists, software engineers and digital projects across multiple business areas in the company

Identify new Azure components based on requirements for new solutions and work with relevant teams for implementation

Responsible for creating and maintaining the architectures platforms that secure efficient data availability and accessibility for data scientists to perform analyses and gain business insight

Construct and maintain architectures from data acquisition and integration from various resources, transformation, quality and accessibility

Recommend and implement improvements for data acquisition, reliability, efficiency and quality

Work with database systems and data lake's utilizing data APIs, ETL tools, scripting languages to perform data modeling, cleaning and manipulation

Implementation of data governance from, storage technologies, virtualization technologies, API gateways to data catalog and data models

Data profiling and data analysis using emerging data technologies

Understand trends of data engineering and participate in technology assessments

Challenge established ways of working and ensure that standards, tools, technologies and work methods are developed, qualified and implemented

Work with Azure using ETL tools like Data Factory and Databricks to clean, model, manipulate and aggregate data

Qualifications

Experience in Data engineering and data architecture

Strong in database technologies, SQL, U-SQL, PL/SQL or T-SQL or NoSQL

Hands-on with ETL tools to clean, model, manipulate and aggregate data

Experience in programming in at least one of the following languages: C, C#, C++, Python or JAVA

Microsoft Azure technology stack for data engineering and service offerings is highly desired

Exposure to Data Pipelines and Data Streams, Data Service APIs

Knowledge of at least one or more of the following: AZURE ADF, Data Lake, SQL DW, Azure SQL, Azure App Service, CosmosDB, DataBricks

Understanding of at least one of the following - Web Services, SOAP, XML, Azure API Apps

Exposure to data visualization technologies (i.e.; Power BI, Spotfire,)

History working in Scrum/Agile/DevOps teams

3 or more years as an IT professional

Relevant experience may compensate for formal qualifications

Personal Qualities

Ability to live by "I am safety" expectations

Flexible to take on new challenges and adopt new technologies

Can work independently and demonstrate initiative

Proactive, solution oriented, persistent and dependable

Ability to collaborate across formal boundaries and locations and work with global distributed teams in different regions

Share expertise and knowledge with others

Focused on customer satisfaction

Excellent communications skills

Work with others and contribute to a positive team spirit

Structured working methods, time management and prioritization

Have strong analytical skills and enjoy problem solving

Interested in new technology and its implementation

We Offer

Equinor offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefit package. Equinor is an equal opportunity employer.

General Information

Our values are to be courageous, open, collaborative and caring. We believe in these qualities, which are essential for building an even stronger Equinor. If you can identify with them, you could be the one to strengthen our team. Candidates are expected to openly offer all relevant information about themselves during the recruitment process.

All permanent and temporary hires will be screened against relevant sanctions lists to ensure compliance with sanctions law and increase security.

This position can be based in either Houston or Austin

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.