Lead Data Engineer - Cloud Platforms

About NCR

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) is a leader in transforming, connecting and running technology platforms for self-directed banking, stores and restaurants. NCR is headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., with 38,000 employees globally. NCR is a trademark of NCR Corporation in the United States and other countries.

The digital banking's Cloud Engineering mission is to take a proactive approach to maintain the integrity of our Digital First banking platform. As a leader within the Cloud Platform team, you will accomplish this by implementing and enforcing standards and practices that promote security, availability, and performance.

Your teams will provide guidance, tooling, and best practices to our development teams so that they can develop reliable, performant, scalable applications in the cloud.

As a leader in the organization, you will provide mentoring within our own team as well as to our peer teams so that we can continue to grow skill and expertise across our core initiatives.

Job Description:

To design, development, and enhance our AWS data environment to ensure solution is implemented using scalable cloud-based best practices.

Responsibilities:

The cloud data engineer responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:

• Design, development, and implementation of scalable Cloud-based data solutions.
• Support our services that focus on data technologies, including Amazon Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, Athena, as well as AWS Database Migration Service, Data Pipeline, Glue and more.
• Provide expertise and perspective on cloud development and infrastructure initiatives, including automations and data migration from on premise systems.
• Collaborate with the data engineers, operations and architects along with system and networking engineers on projects, architectural design, implementation strategy as well as scripting.
• Demonstrate proficiency in the design, installation, deployment, and support of complex data environments.
• Strong focus on promoting automation and DevOps best practices along with infrastructure, application, and security monitoring.

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Information Science, Information Technology, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field OR equivalent experience in a technical position

Experience:

• 4+ years of professional experience in a dynamic environment with a primary focus within Cloud services.
• Advanced administration experience with (1) of the following Database engines: MySQL / MariaDB / SQL Server / Amazon Aurora
• Expertise with building, deploying, and supporting cloud data platform in Amazon Web Services including but not limited to technologies: Aurora, RedShift, RDS, Data Lakes, SQL Server, MySQL, Elasticsearch, S3, DynamoDB, Hadoop, SQL, Python, Linux, ElasticCache, Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra
• Database and SQL query performance tuning experience. Familiarity with: gathering database performance metrics, analyzing explain plans, and presenting/implementing recommendations.
• Coding and development experience using SQL or T-SQL languages
• Experienced setting up monitoring and alerting for production data environments
• Experience with data backup and recovery strategies at database and table levels
• Ability to create operational and technical documentation
• Expertise in AWS with a focus on data security.
• Automation with shell scripting, python, and AWS APIs.
• Automating system configuration and management tasks

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Candidates must possess good analytical skills, as well as written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work well in a dynamic team environment and independently.
• Ability to work independently and in an Agile team environment
• Data migration and ETL experience
• Exposure to security concepts / best practices
• Experience Troubleshooting the full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications
• Experience with both high-availability and disaster recovery data service configurations in a cloud environment preferred.
• Understanding of microservice architecture fundamentals and best practices as applicable to data management

Offers of employment are conditional upon passage of screening criteria applicable to the job.

Full time employee benefits include:

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Short/Long Term Disability
• Paid Vacation
• 401k

EEO Statement

Integrated into our shared values is NCR's commitment to diversity and equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, age, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, military service, genetic information, or any other characteristic or conduct protected by law. NCR is committed to being a globally inclusive company where all people are treated fairly, recognized for their individuality, promoted based on performance and encouraged to strive to reach their full potential. We believe in understanding and respecting differences among all people. Every individual at NCR has an ongoing responsibility to respect and support a globally diverse environment.

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