Contractors’ Warehouse —
Online Lead Data Engineer
Location – Atlanta, GA
Job ID – Req130162
Category – E-Commerce
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Location – Atlanta, GA
Job ID – Req130162
Category – E-Commerce
Company Overview
What’s the best place we’ve ever built? The place where we work. At Home Depot, our goal is to provide the highest level of service, the broadest selection of products, and the most competitive prices. As the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer, we operate more than 2,200 retail stores across North America. And each of our associates are focused one thing — helping our customers build and improve their homes, businesses, and ultimately their lives.
Position Purpose:
Online Data Engineer teams at The Home Depot translate business requirements and build the infrastructure needed to capture customer data. They acquire datasets that align with business needs and develop algorithms to transform data into useful, actionable information. Additionally, they build, test, and maintain database pipeline architectures. They create new data validation methods and data analysis tools. Data Engineers develop application programming interfaces (APIs) to retrieve data. Our Data Engineers develop, host, and maintain in-house enterprise solutions to improve reliability and confidence through monitoring, continually testing, and validating the products we support. These associates use big-data techniques to cleanse, organize and transform data and to maintain, defend and update data structures and integrity on an automated basis.
Key Responsibilities:
- 20% – Business Collaboration – Leverage extensive business knowledge into solution approach; Effectively develop trust and collaboration with internal customers and cross-functional teams; Partner with Other Orgs to understand potential for new tools and ways to maintain technical agility for advanced analytics.
- 25% – Project Management & Team Support – Lead and manage large and complex projects and teams; Provide direction on prioritization of work and ensure quality of work; Collaborate with managers and team in the distribution of workload and resources; Serve as a technical subject matter expert (SME) on both predictive and prescriptive analytics; Drive effective Agile project delivery protocols to assure we gather and surface reliable, actionable enterprise level analytics; Ensure the team comprehends and applies the established processes and standards and mentor team on development.
- 30% – Solution Development – Effectively communicate insights and recommendations to both technical and non-technical leaders and business customers/partners; Clearly communicate impacts of recommendations to drive alignment and appropriate implementation; Develops solutions to transform data into useful, actionable information.
- 25% – Technical Exploration & Development – Guide and direct project teams in the requirements gathering, design, and development of complex applications/programs; Provide technical education on advanced analytics to analytics community; Drive analytics teams to get matured in predictive and prescriptive analytics.
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
- This position reports to the Senior Manager or Above
- This position has 0 direct reports
Travel Requirements:
- Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
Physical Requirements:
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions, there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Working Conditions:
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be 18 years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters in a quantitative field (Analytics, Computer Science, Math, Physics, Statistics, Management, etc.) or relevant work experience
- Ability to stich and maintain data from multiple sources
- Ability to use JavaScript, Front-end development frameworks (React, Nucleus), and QA apps (Retina, KPI Shield, Alert Goose)
- Ability to produce tags for site data
- Ability to code in Python, Google BigQuery to stitch and enrich the raw data from multiple sources
- Ability to use PySpark, AirFlow, and DataProc to engineer and automate data flows pipelines
- Ability to optimize the pipelines run time and lower the cost on slots/storage consumption
- Ability to prioritize requests and manage a product roadmap
- Demonstrated expertise of how to model and mine data
- Demonstrated expertise of how to build and maintain data pipelines
- Demonstrated knowledge of the business to support future data needs and proactive data management
Minimum Education:
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Preferred Education:
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a master's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
- 5
Preferred Years of Work Experience:
- 6
Minimum Leadership Experience:
- No previous leadership experience
Preferred Leadership Experience:
- No previous leadership experience
Certifications:
- None
Competencies:
- Action Oriented
- Collaborates
- Drives Engagement
- Communicates Effectively
- Customer Focus
- Develops Talent
- Drives Results
- Manages Conflict
Paid Time Off Benefits
Salaried associates are eligible for 2 weeks of vacation in their first year; FT hourly will be eligible for 40 hours of paid vacation time after 6 months of continuous service; (for positions in Washington State, Spokane, and Tacoma only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater; (for positions in Seattle only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater.
Location – Atlanta, GA
Job ID – Req130162
Category – E-Commerce
Role Overview
Position Purpose:
Online Data Engineer teams at The Home Depot translate business requirements and build the infrastructure needed to capture customer data. They acquire datasets that align with business needs and develop algorithms to transform data into useful, actionable information. Additionally, they build, test, and maintain database pipeline architectures. They create new data validation methods and data analysis tools. Data Engineers develop application programming interfaces (APIs) to retrieve data. Our Data Engineers develop, host, and maintain in-house enterprise solutions to improve reliability and confidence through monitoring, continually testing, and validating the products we support. These associates use big-data techniques to cleanse, organize and transform data and to maintain, defend and update data structures and integrity on an automated basis.
Key Responsibilities:
- 20% – Business Collaboration – Leverage extensive business knowledge into solution approach; Effectively develop trust and collaboration with internal customers and cross-functional teams; Partner with Other Orgs to understand potential for new tools and ways to maintain technical agility for advanced analytics.
- 25% – Project Management & Team Support – Lead and manage large and complex projects and teams; Provide direction on prioritization of work and ensure quality of work; Collaborate with managers and team in the distribution of workload and resources; Serve as a technical subject matter expert (SME) on both predictive and prescriptive analytics; Drive effective Agile project delivery protocols to assure we gather and surface reliable, actionable enterprise level analytics; Ensure the team comprehends and applies the established processes and standards and mentor team on development.
- 30% – Solution Development – Effectively communicate insights and recommendations to both technical and non-technical leaders and business customers/partners; Clearly communicate impacts of recommendations to drive alignment and appropriate implementation; Develops solutions to transform data into useful, actionable information.
- 25% – Technical Exploration & Development – Guide and direct project teams in the requirements gathering, design, and development of complex applications/programs; Provide technical education on advanced analytics to analytics community; Drive analytics teams to get matured in predictive and prescriptive analytics.
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
- This position reports to the Senior Manager or Above
- This position has 0 direct reports
Travel Requirements:
- Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
Physical Requirements:
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions, there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Working Conditions:
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be 18 years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters in a quantitative field (Analytics, Computer Science, Math, Physics, Statistics, Management, etc.) or relevant work experience
- Ability to stich and maintain data from multiple sources
- Ability to use JavaScript, Front-end development frameworks (React, Nucleus), and QA apps (Retina, KPI Shield, Alert Goose)
- Ability to produce tags for site data
- Ability to code in Python, Google BigQuery to stitch and enrich the raw data from multiple sources
- Ability to use PySpark, AirFlow, and DataProc to engineer and automate data flows pipelines
- Ability to optimize the pipelines run time and lower the cost on slots/storage consumption
- Ability to prioritize requests and manage a product roadmap
- Demonstrated expertise of how to model and mine data
- Demonstrated expertise of how to build and maintain data pipelines
- Demonstrated knowledge of the business to support future data needs and proactive data management
Minimum Education:
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Preferred Education:
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a master's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
- 5
Preferred Years of Work Experience:
- 6
Minimum Leadership Experience:
- No previous leadership experience
Preferred Leadership Experience:
- No previous leadership experience
Certifications:
- None
Competencies:
- Action Oriented
- Collaborates
- Drives Engagement
- Communicates Effectively
- Customer Focus
- Develops Talent
- Drives Results
- Manages Conflict
Paid Time Off Benefits
Salaried associates are eligible for 2 weeks of vacation in their first year; FT hourly will be eligible for 40 hours of paid vacation time after 6 months of continuous service; (for positions in Washington State, Spokane, and Tacoma only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater; (for positions in Seattle only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater.
Remote/virtual – An associate in a remote/virtual role typically is not required to work from a designated Home Depot location to complete their job duties. Limited or infrequent in-office presence may be required. We also refer to this as location – independent.
Learn more about our 4 different work locations. Additional information will be provided during the application process.
As part of the application process for this role, there will be an on-line assessment. The assessment usually takes about 17 minutes to complete. You will be directed to the assessment link immediately after submitting your application. Once you click on the link, you will need to complete it within 72 hours after starting it. You may stop and restart the assessment as many times as you like within the 72-hour time frame.
During the assessment, we’ll ask you questions about your approach to work and various work-related situations. The questions are based on characteristics that are related to performing successfully in hourly roles at The Home Depot, including:
- Professional Experience
- Learning Potential
- Responsibility
- Customer Focus
If you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation related to the assessment, or you would like to obtain more information about the assessment, click here to learn more.
Store Location
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Atlanta, GA
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