KION Group
Senior / Principal Backend Engineer – Data Platform (HYBRID)
Plano, TX | $111K - $139K
Qualifications
- This role demands someone who not only possesses a profound understanding of the data engineering landscape but is also at the forefront of their game
- Design and develop observability and data governance frameworks and practices
- Stay up to date with the latest data engineering trends, technologies, and best practices
- 10+ (for senior) 15+ (for principal) of proven experience in modern cloud data engineering, data architectures, data warehousing, and software engineering
- Expertise in architecting, designing, and building end to end data platforms in the GCP environment using BigQuery and other services while adhering to best practices guidelines such as open standards, cost, performance, time to market and minimize vendor lock
- Solid experience building data platforms in GCP environment
- Solid experience designing and developing modular, distributed data platform components with a microservices architecture
- Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, APIs is needed
- Proficiency in data engineering tools and technologies - SQL, Python, Spark, DBT, Airflow, Kafka
- Solid experience implementing data lineage, data quality and data observability for big data workflows
- Strong experience with modern data modeling, data architecture, and data governance principles
- Excellent experience with DataOps principles and test automation
- Excellent experience with observability tools - Grafana and Datadog
- Experience with Data Mesh architecture
- Experience building Semantic layers for data platforms
- Experience building scalable IoT architectures
Responsibilities
- Design and develop connector frameworks and modern connectors to source data from disparate application both on-prem and cloud
- Design and optimize data storage, processing, and querying performance for large-scale datasets using industry best practices
- Design and develop data quality frameworks and processes to ensure the accuracy and reliability of data
- Drive the deployment and release cycles, ensuring a robust and scalable platform
Benefits
- Career Development
- Competitive Compensation and Benefits
- Pay Transparency
- Global Opportunities
- The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $110,500-138,500 at the time of posting
- Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills
- 10,001+ employees
- Logistics, Transportation, Retail, Manufacturing, Construction, Wholesale Trade, Logistics and Supply Chain, Engineering Services, Automotive, Logistics & Supply Chain
- Public Company
- Founded: 2006
- Frankfurt/Main, Hessen
- Company Specialties:
Industrial trucks, related services and supply chain solutions, automation, and forklift
Company information
The KION Group is among the world's leading suppliers of industrial trucks and supply chain solutions. Its portfolio encompasses industrial trucks, such as forklift trucks and warehouse trucks, as well as integrated automation technology and software solutions for the optimization of supply chains, including all related services. Across more than 100 countries worldwide, the KION Group's solutions improve the flow of material and information within factories, warehouses, and distribution centers. The Group, which is included in the MDAX, is the largest manufacturer of industrial trucks in Europe in terms of units sold in 2020. In China, it is still the leading foreign manufacturer (as measured by revenue in 2020) and number three overall. The KION Group is also one of the leading providers of warehouse automation (as measured by revenue in 2019). At the end of 2020, more than 1.6 million of the KION Group's industrial trucks and over 6,000 of its installed systems were in use by customers of various sizes and in numerous industries on six continents. The Group currently has in excess of 36,000 employees and generated revenue of €8.3 billion in 2020.
