Senior Software Engineer (Data Engineering)

About the Role

As Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with design, product and engineering experts to tackle real-world challenges and deliver innovative solutions that elevate Kohl’s retail offerings.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the development of high-quality applications that are robust, observable and measurable using extreme programming (XP) practices and a user-centric approach
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle in collaboration with designers, product managers, and other engineers on the product team
• Leverage critical thinking, experimentation, data, and industry best practices to implement desired business outcomes
• Facilitate group discussions and team ceremonies and develop a shared context
• Give and receive feedback that’s empathetic, actionable and specific
• Practice emergent architecture with sane defaults and build software that is easy to use and easy to modify
• Establish and lead product engineering and software standards
• Ideate a new product from a user perspective, starting with one or more problem spaces and ending with a stack-ranked list of feasible solutions to test
• Research and stay up to date on tech market trends and practices
• Lead technical initiatives not only on the team but also across the department
• Additional tasks may be assigned

SENIOR BIG DATA SOFTWARE ENGINEER

• Experience in SQL and NOSQL data modeling for cloud data lakes.
• Understanding of data as a product or data mesh topologies using cloud data lakes like Google Big Query, Amazon Redshift or Snowflake
• Experience building and performance tuning ETL pipelines using Technologies like Apache Airflow, spark, python/scala.
• Preferred experience working with GCP data stack and infrastructure, including GCS, Dataproc, Pubsub, IAM, VPC Network.
• Knowledge of real-time streaming technologies like Kafkaconnect, and Flume for messaging and streaming pipelines.
• Experience handling PCI/PII data adhering to compliance standards like GDPR, PCI DSS, SOX, CCPA
• Experience in designing and integrating GenAI tools and technologies like OpenAI, Gemini and Llama LLMs

What Skills You Have

Required

• 4+ years of experience in software development
• Understanding of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database, schemas and testing strategies
• In-depth knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment and test-driven development

Preferred

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field
• Experience with large-scale application troubleshooting and performance tuning
• Exposure working with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• Familiarity and experience with XP (Extreme Programming)

• Experience in SQL and NOSQL data modeling for cloud data lakes.
• Understanding of data as a product or data mesh topologies using cloud data lakes like Google Big Query, Amazon Redshift or Snowflake
• Experience building and performance tuning ETL pipelines using Technologies like Apache Airflow, spark, python/scala.
• Preferred experience working with GCP data stack and infrastructure, including GCS, Dataproc, Pubsub, IAM, VPC Network.
• Knowledge of real-time streaming technologies like Kafkaconnect, and Flume for messaging and streaming pipelines.
• Experience handling PCI/PII data adhering to compliance standards like GDPR, PCI DSS, SOX, CCPA
• Experience in designing and integrating GenAI tools and technologies like OpenAI, Gemini and Llama LLMs

What Skills You Have

Required

• 4+ years of experience in software development
• Understanding of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database, schemas and testing strategies
• In-depth knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment and test-driven development

Preferred

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field
• Experience with large-scale application troubleshooting and performance tuning
• Exposure working with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• Familiarity and experience with XP (Extreme Programming)