Lead Engineer – Data & Analytics 1206 views

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Location: Portland, OR

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

Nike, Inc. Technology is responsible for making the world’s largest sport brand run faster, smarter and more securely. From infrastructure to security and supply chain operations, Technology specialists drive growth through top-flight hardware, software and enterprise applications.  Nike Global Technology aggressively innovates solutions to drive growth while creating and implementing tools that help make everything else in the company possible.

Description

Nike is embracing Big Data technologies to enable data-driven decisions. We’re looking to expand our Hadoop Engineering team to keep pace. As a lead engineer, you will work with a variety of talented Nike teammates and be a driving force for building solutions for Nike Technology. You will be working on development projects related to consumer behavior, commerce, and web analytics.

Data Engineer Responsibilities:

• Design and build reusable components, frameworks and libraries at scale to support analytics products
• Design and implement product features in collaboration with business and Technology stakeholders
• Anticipate, identify and solve issues concerning data management to improve data quality
• Clean, prepare and optimize data at scale for ingestion and consumption
• Drive the implementation of new data management projects and re-structure of the current data architecture
• Implement complex automated workflows and routines using workflow scheduling tools
• Build continuous integration, test-driven development and production deployment frameworks
• Drive collaborative reviews of design, code, test plans and dataset implementation performed by other data engineers in support of maintaining data engineering standards
• Analyze and profile data for the purpose of designing scalable solutions
• Troubleshoot complex data issues and perform root cause analysis to proactively resolve product and operational issues
• Mentor and develop other data engineers in adopting best practices

Data Engineer Skillset:

• Advanced experience building cloud scalable, real time and high-performance data lake solutions leveraging AWS, EMR, S3, Hive & Spark
• Experience with relational SQL
• Experience with scripting languages such as Shell, Python
• Experience with source control tools such as GitHub and related dev process
• Experience with workflow scheduling tools like Airflow
• In-depth understanding of micro service architecture
• Strong understanding of developing complex data solutions
• Experience working on end-to-end solution design
• Able to lead others in solving complex problems by taking a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions
• Willing to learn new skills and technologies
• Has a passion for data solutions
• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Strong understanding of solution and technical design
• Has a strong problem solving and analytical mindset
• Able to influence and communicate effectively, both verbally and written, with team members and business stakeholders
• Able to quickly pick up new programming languages, technologies, and frameworks

NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.