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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Engineer - **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc. - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $139,300.0 - $203,600.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Artificial Intelligence, Unit Testing, Big Data, Code Review, Computer Programming, Databases, Data Architecture, Data Validation, Data Cleansing, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Structures, Relational Databases, Machine Learning, Oracle (Applications), Cloud Services, DataOps, Software Engineering, Unstructured Data, Scripting, Feature Engineering, Snowflake, Data Lakes, Data Pipelines, Cisco - **Published:** August 1, 2026 - **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/main/sendform/8/8/28176/1/17766977?backUrl=%2Fcareer%2F17766977%2FData-Engineer-North-Carolina-Research-Triangle-Park ## About the Role * Bachelor of Science degree with + 7 years of related experience in data engineer and service supply chain supply mgmt. * Possess experience in Data quality management. * Possess experience in Oracle and proficient in Snowflake Procedure development. Preferred Qualifications: * Experience in developing ETL data pipelines. * Experience in developing complex data models. Why Cisco? ## Description Designs, builds, and oversees the deployment and operation of technology architecture, solutions, and software to capture, manage, store, and utilize structured and unstructured data from internal and external sources. Establishes and builds processes and structures based on business and technical requirements to channel data from multiple inputs, route appropriately, and store using any combination of distributed (cloud) structures, local databases, and other applicable storage forms as required. Develops technical tools and programming that leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big-data techniques to cleanse,organize, and transform data and to maintain, defend, and update data structures and integrity on an automated basis. Creates and establishes design standards and assurance processes for software, systems,and applications development to ensure compatibility and operability of data connections, flows, and storage requirements. Reviews internal and external business and product requirements for data operations and activity and suggests changes and upgrades to systems and storage to accommodate ongoing needs. What You'll Do: * May lead moderately complex projects from end to end * Drives analyses from technical design through completion * Understands and guides others ondatabase/data lake sources and security requirements * Ensures data is clean and in a useable and scalable format and helps others with data scrubbing and correlation methodologies * Manages data validation and imputation techniques * Analyzes complex datasets, unlocks patterns, and determines appropriate approaches to problem solving, reporting, and visualization * Manages the development and scaling of data pipelines from multiple sources * Develops and implements data architecture to store, process, analyze, and visualize large, highvolume data sets * Improves feature engineering to build innovative models to address a range of business problems * Writes functional clean code and unit tests with no guidance * Maintains and enhances solutionsby fixing complicated errors, raising risks, and escalating issues where necessary * Identifies immediate and larger scope problems through thorough code reviews * Tests and reviews code to optimize scale, velocity, and reliability of deliverables * Contributes to threat modeling ofa feature * Applies depth of knowledge of databases, relational databases, cloud services, and scripting languages * Ensures data quality and creates and maintains an optimal data pipeline * Assesses data compliance, fixes complex issues, and escalates multidimensional flags * Monitors, tests, and improves metrics to optimize data pipeline quality and performance * Partners with data scientist(s) and the business to understand, articulate, and resolve business problems and related security and privacy concerns * Recommends optimal data sources, methodologies, analytics, and tools * Designs and creates reporting and visualization for communicating data insights and links data to business outcomes ## Related Videos - [How Cisco embraced a DevOps culture within its network engineering team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/99-how-cisco-embraced-a-devops-culture-within-its-network-engineering-team) - [Alibaba Big Data and Machine Learning Technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/37-alibaba-big-data-and-machine-learning-technology) - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [Computer Vision from the Edge to the Cloud done easy](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/263-computer-vision-from-the-edge-to-the-cloud-done-easy) - [PySpark - Combining Machine Learning & Big Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/44-pyspark-combining-machine-learning-big-data) - [Modern Data Architectures need Software Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1030-modern-data-architectures-need-software-engineering) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Making Data Warehouses Fast: A Developer’s Story](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/107-making-data-warehouses-fast-a-developer-s-story) - [Top Big Data Technologies That You Need to Know](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/108-top-big-data-technologies-that-you-need-to-know) - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production) - [Best Countries for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/267-best-countries-for-software-engineers)