Big Data Engineer

«out the Team It’s an exciting time in technology, and that buzz is felt throughout PetSmart! We are continuing to grow at a faster pace and we want to continue to provide best-in-class experiences for pets and pet parents. Our IT team has 4 different departments: Information Security, IT Service Delivery, Business Enabling Systems, and IT Commerce & Customer Engagement. Whether it’s online or in our stores, the work that the IT team does is instrumental in PetSmart’s success. We have a strategic and actionable plan underway and are looking for associates who are just as excited about it as we are. About the Job Big Data Engineer: The PetSmart Big Data team is looking for a highly curious and motivated Associate Big Data Engineer to help us design and build out our Big Data assets to help and unleash insights and analytics from our data. In this role, you will design and engineer PetSmart’s big data platform partnering with data science and business teams to ensure our platform caters to all parts of the corporation while helping to build out our strategic data foundation. You will work with the team to design ingestion pipelines to collect and analyze data, build tools/standards for data science, and help and define the future of PetSmart’s data landscape. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Day to Day support of existing data ingest jobs Creation, support, and scheduling of ingestions from new sources Ongoing data engineering and enhancements to data sets within the environment Qualifications Degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, or any other technology related field (or equivalent work experience) 2+ years of experience working as a big data engineer (Required) must be able to articulate use cases supported and outcomes driven. Expert knowledge of the following (expectation is to demonstrate these skills live during the interview): Spark, Python, Scala, Hive, Pig, and MapReduce Proven experience designing, building, and operating enterprise grade data streaming use cases leveraging one of the following: Kafka, Spark Streaming, Storm, and/or Flink Large scale data engineering and business intelligence delivery experience Design of large-scale enterprise level big data platforms 100’s or 1000’s of concurrent users Experience working with and performing analysis using large data sets (10-1000 TB) Proven and Demonstrated experience working with or on a mature, self-organized agile team Preferred Qualifications: SAFe certification, Scrum Certification Previous exposure to cloud data platforms: Examples include AWS S3, Azure ADLS, GCP Cloud Storage About the Culture Our home office offers outstanding amenities in a fun and rewarding workplace including: Pet friendly environment, bring your pets to work! A work-life balance and family events such as movie nights, art events and holiday festivals “Top Dog” gym with equipment, fitness classes, massage therapists and personal trainers “Sit & Stay” Café serving fresh breakfast and lunch options Starbucks cart—productivity at its finest! “Lil’ Paws” learning center and onsite daycare facility Volunteer events with PetSmart Charities Learn more about
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