The Sherwin-Williams Company
Senior Data Engineer
The Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, Ohio, us, 44101
The Senior Data Engineer in the Architecture, Experience, Digital Platforms and Strategy department within Digital Technology is responsible to design, develop, test, analyze, document, implement, and support the Enterprise Data Platform processes and related infrastructure. The Senior Data Engineer is also responsible for the timely data availability and system up-time through support functions and in-depth testing. The Senior Data Engineer works with business stakeholders to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies, and information systems. Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships. Essential Functions Strategy & Planning Acquire and interpret business requirements and create functional specifications and estimates for large efforts. Submit and review process improvements - set direction across the team and share with technical leadership. Assist the team in understanding program direction. Contribute to development across the full software development lifecycle - from requirements gathering through deployment in all aspects of Data Warehousing. Includes ETL, data modeling, analytics, and reporting. Program and resolve features that are large and challenging in scope to create high-value business solutions. Execution & Deployment Design components for Data Warehouse technologies both on-prem and cloud environments included but not limited to Snowflake, Oracle, ETL, and SQL. Design and meet project requirements. Set direction for the technical aspects of a project. Mitigate risk to deployment of warehouse solutions to the environment. Understand the impact of code that is introduced into the environment and the impact that it can have on the ecosystem. Troubleshoot and support code deployment and resolve code concerns for best practices, security, and code styles. Preempt code deficiencies. Assist and lead other team members to learn to recognize, troubleshoot, and eliminate "at risk" code. Operational Management Support Agile methodologies by participating in the development of team norms, support agile methodologies, and participate within the Agile community. Share Agile best practices with the program. Lead the creation and implementation of high impact internal team process improvement initiatives. Coordinate and run meetings to understand requirements for defects, enhancements, and large size project efforts. Assist team members in understanding efforts needed to complete tasks. Provide direction on solving complex activities. Develop new technology solutions, create POC's, and be able to document and share solutions designed. Provide guidance and leadership to the team in understanding solutions. Work with others to set and provide direction for capabilities, build consensus. Participate in training and mentoring other team members. Incidental Functions Create and deliver presentations for the team. Participate in hiring activities by assisting with interviewing while keeping affirmative action and equal opportunity policy at forefront. Assess the efficiency of intricate code and evaluate the analysis and weaknesses in the design. Provide guidance to team members on implementing corrective measures to address the issues. Formal Education & Certification Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in a Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Technology field of study (e.g., Information Technology, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Computer Systems Management, Mathematics) or equivalent experience. Knowledge & Experience 4 years of IT experience. 4 years of experience with SQL, (specifically, but not limited to, PostgreSQL, T-SQL, PL/SQL, SNOWSQL). 4 years of experience with building applications, system integrations, and web services. 3 years of experience with server side scripting and programming in a Linux environment (primarily bash shell) 3 years of experience using data warehouse ETL tools (specifically IICS, Fivetran/HVR, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)) Strong understanding of common database (Oracle, Snowflake) technologies including performance, tuning, and optimization. Strong data manipulation skills and experience with data warehouse ETL tools and processes. Deep expertise of design, planning, management, maintenance, and support of Cloud Technologies such as Azure and Snowflake is required. ASW, GCP preferred but not required. Good understanding of Business Intelligence Tools (MicroStrategy, Tableau, BOBJ). Advanced knowledge on the support of various component and configuration items. Advanced knowledge in deployment of solutions. Personal Attributes Strong written and oral communications skills. Advanced analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skills. Proven ability and initiative to learn and research new concepts, ideas, and technologies quickly. Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment. Willingness and ability to assist, train and teach others. Ability to translate ideas into a completed solution. Lead and influence cross-organizationally Ability to effectively move forward on tasks even with ambiguous or changing requirements. Strong commitment to inclusion and diversity. This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H-1B visa. This position is eligible to work in the office three days a week and has the option to work remotely two days a week.