Data Engineer I-SR

Job Title: Data Engineer I-SR

PS Job Title: Data Engineer II

Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC

Position Overview

We are seeking a skilled Data Engineer to oversee the design, construction and maintenance of data infrastructure and pipelines to further enable data-driven decision-making across the organization. The successful candidate will collaborate with IT, Analytics Teams, and the AI team to collect, process, and optimize data at scale, ensuring reliability, quality, performance and accessibility.

Key Responsibilities

· Data Pipeline Development: Design and implement robust, scalable ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest, transform, and load data from multiple sources to enable a single source of truth for decision support and process optimization.

· Data Snapshots: Design and implement data snapshot capturing and management.

· Database Design & Optimization: Architect queries in data lakes, and relational databases; optimize queries and indexing for performance. Synthesize complex datasets into user-friendly datasets.

· Data Integration: Build connectors and integration workflows to consolidate data across disparate systems and APIs. Seek to enable usage of dark data and derive increased value from all data.

· Data Processing: Design and Implement Data processing modules to improve data quality, link disparate data sources and/or otherwise add value to data

· Application Development: Design, construction and maintenance of applications to enable data correction, manipulation, processing. Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.

· Automation: Design, Construction and maintenance of automations, such as condition/routine emails and job scheduling

· Data Quality & Governance: Establish data quality standards, validation rules, and documentation. Implement best practices in data governance, quality, storage, and manipulation to unlock the full potential of company data. Regularly evaluate data sources and methodologies to ensure utmost data integrity and discover significant patterns or insights. Ensure that data is secure and compliant with all Federal, state, local requirements and Entergy policies.

· Server Management: Administrate [business] team virtual servers as well as schema within the data lakes

· Collaboration: Partner with AI Developers, data analysts, scientists, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions. Contribute to the analytics roadmap, transforming data usage for decision support and process optimization.

· Analysis: Provide actionable insights into operational efficiency, reliability, and other key business performance metrics.

· Documentation & Testing: Create comprehensive documentation and unit/integration tests for data pipelines and systems through to the end user views

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
• 3+ years of professional experience as a Data Engineer or in a closely related role
• 3+ years experience in developing ETL pipelines using Apache Airflow, Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services, Python, and familiarity with big data/cloud databases like Google BigQuery and Snowflake.
• Strong proficiency in Apache Airflow, Python, SQL and PowerBI
• Solid understanding of relational and SQL databases; specifically, MS SQL Server
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and associated data services
• Familiarity with data warehouse technologies (Snowflake/Redshift)
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Able to create and sustain a safe working environment (identify and mitigate safety hazards)
• Able to develop and maintain process and technical documentation.
• Foundational knowledge in change management and continuous improvement frameworks.

Preferred Qualifications

• At least 4 years in developing and utilizing tools that prepare, extract and manipulate (big) data to create connected datasets (data lake) that can be utilized for analytics purposes
• Proficiency with data orchestration and workflow tools
• Experience with Alation, Jira
• Experience with real-time data processing
• Familiarity with Entergy Work Practices and Processes
• Deep expertise to advise on the application of project management principles to ensure systematic, thorough completion of assignments, identifying critical pathways and risks to delivery.

· Deep expertise leading the development of data/information analyses to assist the business in decision making; provide business insights and data trends through detailed reports.

Working Conditions

• Full-time position
• Hybrid
• Occasional travel may be required

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to view the EEO page, or see statements below.

EEO Statement: The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

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Additional Responsibilities: As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

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WORKING CONDITIONS:
As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.