Sr Data Engineer

NextEra Energy
Houston, TX, United States
21 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
7 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Airflow Amazon S3 Unit Testing Cloud Database Data Structures Data Systems Data Warehousing Database Queries Python (Programming Language) Software Engineering Data Streaming
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Systems Architecture System Testing Data Ingestion Data Analytics Database Replication Data Pipelines Amazon Redshift Databricks

Job description

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines that power analytics, reporting, and data-driven products. You will work hands-on with modern data technologies such as Amazon Redshift, Databricks, and cloud-based data processing frameworks to ensure reliable, high-quality data flows across the platform. You will apply strong software engineering principles to optimize data ingestion, transformation, and storage while collaborating closely with analytics, product, and engineering teams to enable actionable insights. You are at the edge of adopting emerging technologies and are keen to develop an AI-first coding mentality., * Codes in multiple languages in support of software products and the development of software products

  • Conducts system testing and codes unit tests and support features
  • Documents technical requirement and other technical documentation
  • Works with product team to refine product requirements
  • Collaborates on high level software design projects and software system architecture and creates effective component level architectures
  • Leads software module construction from architecture and design to implementation and may lead a small team of engineers in building the module
  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Requirements

Technical skills: Experience with DBT, Prefect (or similar orchestration tools like Airflow) data replication strategies, Python, Redshift, Databricks, and a high level of SQL proficiency. Experience with AWS tools and utilities (S3, Dynamo, etc.). Experience with modern data warehousing approaches (medallion architecture, etc.). Strong data modeling and data structure design skills., * Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience

  • Experience: 7+ years, * Bachelor’s - Engineering

About the company

At Gexa Energy, a NextEra Energy Resources company, we provide reliable low-cost energy solutions. Focused on customer satisfaction, we offer innovative electricity plans tailored to the diverse needs of Texas homes and businesses. If you’re passionate about making a difference in the energy industry and delivering exceptional customer experiences, join our team today., NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to, providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you.

NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

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