Staff Data Engineer

Job description

3185002
Additional Cities

Schenectady
Career Level

Experienced
Relocation Assistance

Yes
Business

GE Renewable Energy
Business Segment

Renewable Energy Digital Services
Function

Digital Technology
Country/Territory

United States
Additional States/Provinces

New York
Postal Code

12345-6000
Role Summary/Purpose

The Staff Data Engineer will play a critical role in GE’s Digital Wind Farm initiative that will transform the Wind Industry and create a mechanism to unite machines, data and people. In this role, you will perform a variety of in-depth data analysis, data modeling, and data design tasks on complicated datasets with potentially complex data integration scenarios.
Essential Responsibilities

Provide Operational support for the data warehousing applications, including quarantine maintenance, troubleshooting, monitoring and resolving bugs and production issues in a timely manner. Proficient in SQL and ETL processes, ETL and DB performance tuning, table partitioning, shell scripting. Works with Product Owners, and Business SME to identify requirements and drive ingestions standards consistent with business processes. This role will work with cross functional teams from Engineering, Services, and Digital to develop, test, and validate software tools in an Agile development environment. Your focus will be to rapidly prototype solutions that delivers valuable and actionable insights based on Wind turbine operational performance data.

Essential Responsibilities:
In this role, you will:

·  Develop scripting / programming in Java, Python, Matlab, and / or R

·  Develop and compute critical wind turbine performance metrics that drive action across all organizations in the business

·  Be responsible for the analysis, management, and reporting of data generated by GE’s global fleet of wind turbines.

·  Work closely with IT teams to ensure high quality data is available in the Global Repository (central data warehouse).

·  Build software and create data structures to rapidly make important information available to both internal and external customers.

·  Develop SQL queries against a Greenplum (Postgresql) data warehouse.

·  Rapidly deliver customized datasets and analysis to support teams in resolving high visibility issues.

·  Build tools and utilities to automate workflows, reporting tasks, and batch process data.

·  Administer local database and application server instances that host team utility apps.

·  Guide infrastructure and database improvement development.
Qualifications/Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

·  Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science from an accredited college or university or equivalent experience

·  Minimum of 5 years of experience working in data visualization and analysis.

·  Minimum of 2 years of experience with relational database (Oracle, Greenplum, or MS SQL Server) design and development.

·  3+ years’ experience creating the specification and detailed design of software development projects.

Eligibility Requirements:

·  Legal authorization to work in the US is required. GE may agree to sponsor an individual for an employment visa now or in the future if there is a shortage of individuals with particular skills.
Desired Characteristics

·  Database design and configuration

·  Previous experience with wind turbine software and firmware packages including: WindSCADA, VisuPro, ControlST (ToolboxST, WorkstationST), Bachmann PLC software and tools, Mark VIecontrol systems

·  Familiar with GE Proficy Historian

·  Strong focus on data integrity and traceability working in big data environments.

·  Previous experience working with large data sets using big data technologies including Greenplum or other MPP database systems

·  Cloud based application development and deployment (such as experience with developing on AWS, Heroku, Cloud Foundry or Predix)

·  Server side Java development (or server side Python or Node.js)

·  UI/UX designer – using technologies like Angular JS and Polymer

·  Database/data modeling (RDBMS and/or NoSQL)

·  Capable of implementing RESTful API

·  Unit testing and documentation

·  Capable of implementing security on https based application (OAuth2 experience)

·  Previous experience with advanced SQL programming including DML and DDL

·  Familiarity with scripting / programming in Java, Python, Matlab, and/or R

·  Strong knowledge of SQL and retrieving data from relational database systems

·  Ability to work effectively in a matrix environment

·  Superior analytical skills, with strong desire to improve processes and performance

·  Ability to work effectively within all levels of the organization and customers

·  Strong presentation skills

·  Distinctive ability to analyze technical processes

·  Strong communication and project leadership skills with ability to clearly communicate issues and resolution to both a technical and non-technical audience

·  Strong customer service focus and desire for continual improvement

·  Ability to take decisions and to adopt responsibility

·  Strong quality awareness and ability to identify future failures, defects and problems

·  Experience to working with multicultural teams

·  Strong team player with structured work methods and analytical skills

·  High flexibility and motivation to succeed

·  Previous experience leading cross functional projects

·  Experience with direct customer contact

·  Distinctive ability to execute technical processes

·  Strong communication and leadership skills with ability to clearly communicate issues and resolution to both a technical and non-technical audience

·  Strong customer service focus and desire for continual improvement

·  Ability to take decisions and to adopt responsibility

·  Strong quality awareness and ability to identify future failures, defects and problems

·  Experience to working with multicultural teams

·  Strong team player with structured work methods and analytical skills

·  High flexibility and motivation to succeed

·  Six Sigma Green Belt / Black Belt Certification or equivalent quality certification

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About Us

GE (NYSE:GE) drives the world forward by tackling its biggest challenges. By combining world-class engineering with software and analytics, GE helps the world work more efficiently, reliably, and safely. GE people are global, diverse and dedicated, operating with the highest integrity and passion to fulfill GE’s mission and deliver for our customers. www.ge.com
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is anEqual Opportunity Employer . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening.
Primary Country

United States
Primary State/Province

New York
Primary City

Schenectady