Senior Business Intelligence Data Engineer

General Motors
Warren, United States of America
6 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Warren, United States of America

Tech stack

Databases
Information Engineering
Data Governance
Data Integration
Data Integrity
ETL
Data Security
Data Structures
Data Systems
Data Warehousing
Document-Oriented Databases
Fault Tolerance
Meta-Data Management
Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL
Oracle Applications
Simple Data Format
Software Engineering
Data Streaming
Talend
Teradata
Data Import/Export
Data Ingestion
Informatica Powercenter
Snowflake
Database Migration
Data Lake
PySpark
Information Technology
Data Analytics
Real Time Data
Data Pipelines
Databricks

Job description

The Senior Business Intelligence Data Engineer will own the full life cycle of understanding the business requirements data and designing the migration of our data from several systems to a cutting-edge Databricks environment, architecting, implementing, and optimizing ETL/ELT processes to ensure robust, secure, and analytics-ready data flows for our business operations.

A successful Senior Business Intelligence Data Engineer demonstrates customer focus, a drive for results, and ease with ambiguous data requests and definitions; influences change, naturally accepts ownership for project deliverables, explores opportunities to add value to job responsibilities, and continues to develop critical skills and technical expertise. Projects will span across all time horizons, from early in Vehicle development process through end of production and often require integration of data across multiple functions, including Engineering, Program Management, Planning, Forecasting, Sales, and Manufacturing.

What You'll Do

  • Collaborate with stakeholders, including data analysts, data scientists, architects, and business teams, to ensure data solutions meet organizational requirements and compliance standards.
  • Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines to transfer data from various databases to Databricks, leveraging both batch and real-time methodologies as appropriate.
  • Lead the overall ETL/ELT architecture, including extraction, transformation, and data loading strategies, ensuring scalability, performance, and data integrity. Optimize and tune ETL/ELT processes for large-scale and real-time data movement, ensuring resource efficiency. Ensure data security, quality, and compliance across the whole process.
  • Model, integrate, and optimize data structures in the Databricks platform, taking into account data lakes, data warehousing needs, and analytics workloads.
  • Automate and monitor data workflows for reliability, transparency, and fault tolerance throughout the migration and beyond. Document data flows, transformation logic, and technical specifications for all data integration processes, enabling maintainability and smooth knowledge transfer., This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Engineering, Operations Management or related field
  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles, with demonstrated expertise in database migrations and ETL/ELT process design.
  • Deep hands-on experience with databases Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Teradata, Snowflake
  • In-depth knowledge of Databricks (including PySpark, Databricks SQL, and Lakehouse architectures).
  • Expertise in ETL/ELT tools and frameworks (e.g., Informatica, Talend, Databricks Workflows, or custom pipelines).
  • Proven ability to design and implement scalable, efficient data pipelines and to optimize complex transformations in modern cloud environments.
  • Demonstrated experience in data modeling and integration for analytics and BI use cases.
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills for cross-functional collaboration and process transparency.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
  • Knowledge of data governance, metadata management, or data quality/observability
  • Familiarity with schema design and data contracts
  • Experience handling various file formats (video, audio, image)
  • Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, or similar platforms
  • Experience designing and implementing robust data ingestion frameworks for heterogeneous data sources (structured/unstructured files, external suppliers, supplier chain systems)

About the company

We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team., General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.

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