Job description
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Data Platform Engineer
Location: Corporate
Department: Information Technology
Job Summary: The Senior Data Platform Engineer will help strategize and build our next generation cloud-based enterprise data platform. Wawa's Enterprise Data Platform will contain components of data ingestion, storage, and data warehousing. The platform will be the base for future analytic and insight projects to help grow Wawa's core business and give greater capabilities around descriptive predictive and prescriptive reporting and analysis. Design develop and deploy data platform tools that enable our data science and analytics teams to move faster, build better products, and deliver high-impact insights that will transform our business. . The candidate will be responsible for collaborating and working effectively across the IT and business teams at Wawa.
Principal Duties:
- Deploy, maintain, and administer analytic platforms & tools that enable state of the art, modern data capabilities for data engineers, data scientists, and analytic users and applications.
- Assist application development teams during application design and development for highly complex and critical data projects to ensure platforms are enabled for targeted use-cases.
- Contribute to the underlying platforms of all data projects including migration to new cloud-based data platforms for unstructured, streaming and high-volume data.
- Ensure platform and application availability and uptime consistent with established SLA’s and be responsive to customer support requests and system alerts.
- Leverage DevOps techniques and practices like Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Test Automation, Build Automation and Test-Driven Development to enable rapid deployment of end user capabilities
- Integrate enterprise-wide tools for automating, monitoring, and managing the current and future technology environments in a proactive manner
- Establish performance baselines in monitoring system performance and deliver tuning recommendations for peak performance.
- Apply and adhere to security standards, best practices and compliance in the design, implementation and support of new and existing technologies within Wawa.
- Creates and maintains DevOps processes, application infrastructure, and utilizes cloud services (including database systems and data models).
- Develop data solutions on cloud data centers such as AWS.
- Provide 24x7 rotating support of production systems to ensure business continuity.
- Contribute to and define environment and platform standards, processes, and best practice documentation.
Essential Functions:
- Handle multiple priorities simultaneously
- Ability to build strong trusting relationships with business partners
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, team environment
- Very strong communication skills and ability to lead initiatives
- Strong collaborator with experience wearing multiple hats on smaller teams and cross training other team members
- Basic project management skills required
Basic Qualifications:
- Experience implementing and maintaining data platform core services (data lake, data integration, data warehouse) and configuring and integrating infrastructure and PAAS (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, EMR)
- Experience with AWS development on S3, EC2, EMR/Hive, Cloud Formation Templates, IAM, Security Groups, SQS, SNS, Redshift, Athena, Lambda,
- Experience with Hadoop ecosystem (Cloudera) and Apache Spark
- Experience with streaming technologies and data structures: Kafka, Kinesis, Firehose, XML, JSON
- 3-5 years Python, Java, or Scala programming experience
- 3-5 years of experience with SQL and database basics (Structures, Data Models, Partitions, Statistics, Optimizations)
- Experience in source control tooling like Git, SVN, et
- Linux/ Bash scripting
- Open Source Toolset Configuration (Nifi, Kafka, Jupyter, Zeppelin)
- 3-5 years of DevOps and IAC Tooling experience with tools such as CodeFresh Ansible Terraform and Pulumi
- AWS Certification Preferred
- Understanding of networking and infrastructure fundamentals including firewalls, Active Directory integration, and general troubleshooting
- Prior experience with Talend Cloud a huge plus
Wawa will provide reasonable accommodation to complete an application upon request, consistent with applicable law. If you require an accommodation, please contact our Associate Service Center at
asc@wawa.com
or 1-800-444-9292.
Wawa, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Wawa maintains a work environment in which Associates are treated fairly and with respect and in which discrimination of any kind will not be tolerated. In accordance with federal, state and local laws, we recruit, hire, promote and evaluate all applicants and Associates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, familial status, marital status, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity or expression, citizenship status, disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Unlawful discrimination will not be a factor in any employment decision.
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