Senior Engineer, Data Engineering & Analytics

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

At KeHE, we’re obsessed with creating solutions, unboxing potential, and serving others – and it all starts with you. As an employee-owned distributor of natural and organic, specialty, and fresh products, we’re committed to making a positive impact and scaling our success together. With a culture that fosters development and opportunity, you’ll be embarking on a career that’s moving forward. When you join KeHE, you’re becoming part of a team that is a force for good.

Responsibilities

The Senior DEA Engineer is a highly capable individual contributor who operates with a high degree of autonomy, owns complex technical problems end-to-end, and elevates the quality and effectiveness of the entire team without formal people management. 

This role represents the transition from task-based execution to system-level thinking, ownership, and leadership through influence. Senior Engineers are expected to solve ambiguous problems, mentor others, and shape how solutions are designed — not just how they are implemented. The Senior Engineer is expected to have strong proficiency in the team's primary tech stack, solid understanding of system design principle, comfort with APIs, integrations and distributed systems and strong testing, debugging and performance optimization skills. 

The Senior Engineer role is at the top of the individual contributor core track, before branching into people leadership (Lead) or deep technical leadership (Principal)As with all positions at KeHE Distributors, we expect that all actions will be consistent with KeHE's Mission, Vision, and Values. 

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:  

• 5+ years of experience with data engineering technologies (SQL, Python, Spark) and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP). 

• Deep knowledge of data architecture, modeling, governance, and integration best practices. 

• Strong experience with MLOps, analytics platforms, and BI tools (Power BI, Tableau). 

• Proven ability to set technical vision, influence architecture strategy, and mentor senior engineers. 

• Product mindset with ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes. 

• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills. 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field preferred or similar coding education alternatives to traditional four-year degrees.

 

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:  

• These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.