Associate Data Engineer

Welcome to Gordon Food Service! We are excited that you are thinking about opportunities with us, and we have an amazing story to share. See below for a quick glance of who we are and the impact you could have on the food service industry. There's a seat at our table for you... Position Summary The Data Engineer will use their inquisitiveness, tenacity, and willingness to learn, to help develop the GFS Data Platform consisting of the data lake, analytics, enterprise data warehouse, and visualization tools. They need to have the ability to follow the teams technical direction by writing high quality code and following modern design principles. They will build data solutions in an agile and incremental manner and is an active participant in all team ceremonies. They need to have the ability to understand complex architecture and engineering designs and have the skill to help implement them. They need to understand the business problem they are trying to solve and can appropriately apply technology to help solve it, and have strong personal skills to develop relationships with peers on their team What you will do Follow the technical strategy and direction for the Data Platform environment at GFS, including tools, techniques, and processes. Help design and build technology solutions across multiple initiatives at the same time. Collaborate with others on the team to rapidly prototype and implement technical architectures to deliver insightful solutions. Understand the business analytics problems the company faces and help build solutions that solve them. Work on a high-performing team focused on results and relationships. Performs other duties as assigned. When you will work Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm Hybrid schedule, 4 days in office in Wyoming, MI or Atlanta, GA with 1 day remote What you'll bring to the table Experience writing software at a large enterprise. Experienced in modern data movement technologies (e.g. serverless, real-time, as needed computing, low latency data movement, high volume data management, etc...). Experience working with devops processes to deliver code quickly with a high degree of confidence and quality. Experience in understanding and developing complex data models. Business Influence - Experience in empathizing with users and adjusting the technical solution to solve their problems. Experience in working with data visualization tools (Microstrategy, PowerBI, Looker, Tableau, etc...). Preferred languages include but are not limited to Python, Terraform, and Java. Experience with one or many cloud computing providers (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure) preferred. Preferred tool experience include but not limited to Apache Airflow, Kafka, Attunity, databases, queuing, Microstrategy preferred. Knowledge of data governance, expectations and leading practices preferred. Experience evaluating alternate solutions to a technical problem while considering the cost and benefit preferred. Gordon Food Service values our customers and understands that their success is largely dependent upon their workforce. To demonstrate our commitment to our partnership, we will require any candidate who works for a Gordon Food Service customer to provide a letter of support from their management if they are selected for the interview process. Equal Employment Opportunity is a matter of policy at Gordon Food Service, Inc. and we are committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability. If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, please submit your request to View email address on click.appcast.io and use the words "Accommodation Request" in your subject line. All Gordon Food Service locations are tobacco-free. Gordon Food Service is a drug-free workplace and conducts pre-employment drug tests. #J-18808-Ljbffr