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Job Description:
Job Description
We're seeking a talented Data Engineer with hands-on experience in the Google Cloud data ecosystem and a proven track record. You'll be instrumental in designing, building, and maintaining our data infrastructure and pipelines, enabling critical insights and supporting data-driven initiatives across the organization.
Responsibilities
Data Pipeline Development: Design, build, and optimize robust and scalable data pipelines to ingest, transform, and load data from various sources into our data warehouse and knowledge graphs.
Cloud Data Stack Expertise: Implement and manage data solutions using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Spanner and Dataproc and Azure Cloud Services
Knowledge Graph Engineering: Develop and maintain data models, ingest data, and create efficient queries within Neo4j and/or Stardog. Leverage your expertise to build and expand our enterprise knowledge graph.
Data Quality & Governance: Implement best practices for data quality, data validation, and data governance, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and reliability.
Performance Optimization: Continuously monitor and optimize the performance of data pipelines and database queries, identifying and resolving bottlenecks.
Collaboration: Work closely with data scientists, analysts, and other engineering teams to understand data requirements and deliver effective data solutions.
Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for data pipelines, data models, and knowledge graph schemas.
Required Qualifications
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
Experience:
5+ years of professional experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar role.
Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data services, including BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, and Composer (Apache Airflow).
Proficiency in Python for data manipulation and pipeline orchestration.
Experience with SQL and data warehousing concepts.
Familiarity with data modeling techniques relational database
Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
Application Support
Terraform or any other IaC tools
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with other GCP services
Knowledge of streaming data technologies (e.g., Kafka, Google Cloud Dataflow streaming).
Familiarity with data governance tools and principles.
Certifications in Google Cloud Platform data engineering.
Employee Type:
UPS is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.
Other facts
About UPS
Operating in more than 200 countries and territories, we’re committed to moving our world forward by delivering what matters. Beginning as a small messenger service, UPS was started by two enterprising teenagers and a $100 loan. Now, we’re almost 500,000 UPSers strong, with operations around the globe.
As a transportation and logistics leader, we are proud to offer innovative solutions to our customers—both big and small. We also support the communities we serve. Just take a look at The UPS Foundation’s social impact report!
Headquartered in Atlanta, we can be found on the web at ups.com and about.ups.com. Job seekers can visit upsjobs.com to learn more. Our active social media channels include Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok.
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Website
https://about.ups.com/
The UPS Foundation’s social impact report:
https://about.ups.com/us/en/social-impact/reporting/the-ups-foundations-social-impact-report.html
Career Site
upsjobs.com
What you'll do
- The Data Engineer will design, build, and maintain data infrastructure and pipelines to support data-driven initiatives. Responsibilities include developing data pipelines, managing cloud data solutions, and ensuring data quality and governance.
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