
Data Engineer – Expert
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Ramon • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $238,000 per year
About the role
- Designs, develops, modifies, configures, debugs and evaluates jobs for extracting data from various sources, implements transformation logic, and stores data in various formats fit for use by stakeholders.
- Collects metadata about jobs including data lineage and transformation logic.
- Works with teams, clients, data owners, and leadership throughout the development cycle practicing continuous improvement.
- Leads a team on moderately complex to complex data and analytics-centric problems having broad impact that require in-depth analysis and judgment to obtain results or solutions.
- Identifies, designs and implements internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes.
- Resolves application programming analysis problems of broad scope within procedural guidelines.
- Provides assistance to other programmers/analysts on unusual or especially complex problems that cross multiple functional/technology areas.
- Conceptualizes and generates infrastructure that allows big data to be accessed and analyzed with verified data quality and metadata is appropriately captured and catalogued.
- Collaborates with peers to develop departmental standards, norms, and new goals/objectives.
- Plans work to meet assigned general objectives; reviews progress regularly and solutions may provide an opportunity for creative/non-standard approaches.
- Assesses data pipeline performance and suggests/implements changes as required.
- Communicates (oral and written) recommendations.
- Mentors/provides guidance to less experienced colleagues.
Requirements
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related field of study, or equivalent experience
- 7 years of experience with data engineering/ETL ecosystems such as Palantir Foundry, Spark, Informatica, SAP BODS, OBIEE
- Experience with multiple data engineering/ETL ecosystems
- Experience with machine learning algorithm deployment
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related field, or equivalent experience (desired)
- Experience leading development teams
- Business Intelligence and data access tool expertise, including advanced SQL, data modeling, and performance optimization.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals (Git, CI/CD, unit and integration testing) with production data pipelines experience
- Proficiency in Python and SQL within Palantir Foundry, including PySpark-based transformations and data workflows
Benefits
- This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringETLmachine learningadvanced SQLdata modelingperformance optimizationPythonPySparkGitCI/CD
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationmentoringcollaborationproblem-solvingcontinuous improvementanalytical thinkingcreativityguidanceorganizational skills