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Job Description :
Title: Data Engineer
Location: Bradenton, FL
Duration: 12+ months+ contract

Description:
SUMMARY OF POSITION
Foot Locker, Inc. is seeking an innovative individual who has a proven track record of building enterprise level platform components to support product development from multiple teams and lines of business.
This role is expected to drive innovation through collaboration across our data science teams and business to help push Foot Locker, inc. to the next level.
The team is embarking on a journey of building a brand new data lake platform built using cloud native concepts and the latest tech stacks.
Some ideal technologies for this individual would be Spark, Scala/Python, Kafka, and Azure (AWS is ok too)
RESPONSIBILITIES
This role will include, but will not be limited to the following responsibilities:
Build new data sets, and products helping support Foot Locker business initiatives.
Help grow our data catalog through ingestions of a variety of third party data sources, both internal and external
Must be able to contribute to self-organizing teams with minimal supervision working within the Agile / Scrum project methodology
Build production quality ingestion pipelines with automated quality checks to help enable the business to access all of our data sets in one place
Participate in the continuous evolution of our schema / data model as we find more data sources to pull into the platform
Support our Data Scientists by helping enhance their modeling jobs to be more scalable when modeling across the entire data set
Participate in a collaborative, peer review based environment fostering new ideas via cross team guilds / specialty groups
Maintain comprehensive documentation around our processes / decision making

REQUIREMENTS
Bachelors Degree in Computer science or related field
3+ or more years of related information technology experience
2 years of experience in Spark, Scala ,Python, Hive and Data Lake
Experience in developing ETL
Processes Strong SQL

Skills
Good understanding of data warehouse design(e.g. dimensional modeling)
Demonstrated experience with agile scrum methodology
Strong desire to learn new technologies and keep up with the latest technologies in the big data space
Must possess well-developed verbal and written communication skills.