
IT Data Engineer III
Woodward, Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Niles • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $95,000 - $152,000 per year
About the role
- Design and optimize end-to-end orchestration patterns, architect scalable ETL/ELT solutions, and lead complex logical and physical data modeling efforts.
- Act as the primary data translator for SAP S/4HANA and other enterprise source systems, and design robust source-to-model mappings.
- Drive complex requirements gathering with analysts, data scientists, and business owners, lead cross-functional projects delivering data products, and manage ticket prioritization for assigned work.
- Lead complex troubleshooting across Power BI, Fabric, and Business Objects, optimize tenant capacity, and help design workspace and semantic modeling standards.
- Design and improve infrastructure patterns for servers and applications, lead complex incident response and root-cause analysis, manage versions and administer servers.
- Design and enforce cross-platform access models, lead implementation of data masking, and drive compliance controls to meet ITAR/GDPR/PII requirements.
- Assist with designing metadata and lineage frameworks, automate metadata capture and quality checks.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Analytics, or related discipline is preferred.
- 5+ years in data engineering, ETL, data warehousing, or similar roles supporting enterprise analytics required.
- Advanced SQL
- Advanced Python/PySpark
- Advanced experience with ETL/ELT using Azure Synapse pipelines, Azure Data Factory, or comparable tools (AWS Glue, Google Cloud Dataflow, Apache Airflow, etc.).
- Experience with SAP Data Services preferred.
- Advanced knowledge of SAP S/4HANA data structures and common data models.
- Experience with SLT sidecar for continuous replication preferred.
- Advanced understanding of data warehouses (cloud or on-prem), relational databases and data modeling concepts.
- Advanced proficiency with connecting to, extracting and loading data from REST APIs.
- Experience with Microsoft Power BI and Fabric admin features (workspace and capacity management, security).
- Experience with SAP Business Objects and Power BI report development (including DAX and M languages) preferred.
- System design for reliability and observability, advanced CI/CD and deployment strategies, mature data governance.
- Effective stakeholder communication to technical and nontechnical audiences, technical leadership, capacity to help drive architecture decisions and trade-offs, team player, continuous learner.
Benefits
- All members included in annual cash bonus opportunity.
- 401(k) match (4.5%)
- Annual Woodward stock contribution (5%)
- Tuition reimbursement and Training/Professional Development opportunities for all members
- 12 paid holidays, including floating holidays.
- Industry leading medical, dental, and vision Insurance upon date of hire
- Vacation / Sick Time / Vacation Buy-up / Short Term Disability / Bereavement leave.
- Paid parental leave.
- Adoption Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program, including mental health benefits.
- Member Life & AD&D / Long Term Disability / Member Optional Life
- Member referral bonus
- Spouse / Child Optional Life / Optional AD&D / Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending
- Voluntary benefits, including: Home / Auto Insurance discounts Whole Life Insurance / Critical Illness Insurance / Legal Assistance / Military Leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
ETLELTSQLPythonPySparkAzure SynapseAzure Data FactorySAP S/4HANAdata modelingREST APIs
Soft skills
stakeholder communicationtechnical leadershipteam playercontinuous learner
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s Degree in Information SystemsBachelor’s Degree in Business Analytics