Sr Data Engineer - Innovation

Your Impact:The main purpose of this role is to deliver end-to-end data solutions for simple to medium complex business problems. This role includes translating business needs to technical requirements and helps in designing the architecture and facilitating the implementation and maintenance of those solutions. This role serves as a technical expert to develop the right solution, including participating in the evaluation of the best fit platform/technology stack, and ensure correct implementation, following best practices and accounting for both functional and non-functional requirements, like reliability, scalability, performance, stability, security, and long-term maintainability.Work with a Winning Team:As part of a Fortune 50 company and retail leader, your work can change an entire industry. Our CEO is a forward-thinker when it comes to tech, and with one of Forbes' Top 50 CIOs leading the charge, you can come to work knowing you’ll have access to the data, tools, and support that few other companies can offer. We also know what it takes to create an inclusive culture that supports you. Our teams are structured around the engineer, giving you the support you need to do your best work. Since we’ve been in business for over 100 years, we’ve built an excellent track record of growth and success. There’s peace of mind knowing you have the stability and resources you need to focus on solving tough challenges. And as you solve these challenges, know you’ll be surrounded by supportive associates with curious minds who listen to you, respect you, and recognize your hard work.What you will do:

Resolves simple to medium complex problems spanning across multiple applications to deliver value; participates in planning and estimation and advises other junior engineers; executes with limited guidance.

Helps evaluate and facilitate decisions on build versus buy as well as best fit platform suitable for the business problem.

Leads development of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions to ensure specifications are flexible, scalable, and maintainable and meet architectural standards.

Uses current architectural standards and guidelines to drive efficiency when working on the design efforts of complex business and enterprise data or platform solutions.

Ensures good unit testing coverage accounting for all boundary conditions and comes up with the system integration test plan and testing framework for data engineers to leverage and implement both unit testing and functional testing and support user acceptance testing.

Works within the domain to define and design a data solution to meet business needs and product objectives and key results, service level agreements, data quality, and observability.

Works with the data governance team to establish retention, privacy, and security guidelines for different datasets.

Works with the data science team to understand mathematical models and algorithms; educates and influences data scientists on how data engineering can help scale and deploy models.

Analyzes and organizes data to evaluate the usefulness and relevance of data required for insights requested by the business.

Designs and leads the development, maintenance, and enhancements of operational, analytical (including self-serve) applications across various business domains; helps create frameworks and reusable components.

Participates in infrastructure-related projects from idea generation through implementation including needs analysis, cost-benefit analysis, selection, implementation, knowledge transfer, and support.

Analyzes and helps propose design alternatives and facilitates appropriate design decisions; assesses risk, cost, schedule, and resource tradeoffs; understands networking, like subnetting, routing, virtual private cloud/virtual network, security groups, and load balancing.

Required Qualifications:

5 years of experience in data, business intelligence or platform engineering, data warehousing/ETL, or software engineering

4 years of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (SDLC)

3 years of experience in object-oriented programming/structure programming, SQL, and scripting

3 years of experience in big data technology

3 years of experience in cloud-based big data technologies

Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, computer information systems (CIS), or related field (or equivalent work experience in lieu of degree)

Preferred Qualifications:

Master's degree in computer science, CIS, or related field

About Lowe’s:Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion, Lowe’s operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com.Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.Pay Range: $109,400.00 - $207,900.00 annually Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits.