Senior Azure Data Engineer

Company Overview

With nearly 80,000 employees globally, Kyocera is a leading manufacturer of high-tech Ceramics which are used in a variety of industries including aerospace, automotive, medical applications, and semiconductor processing. You will find our innovative materials in everything from smartphones to space shuttles! Check out our profile video!

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• Competitive pay, benefits, and hours
• 120 hours of vacation accrued per year to start (that's 3 weeks/year for regular 8-hour shifts!)
• 10 Paid Holidays per year
• 401(k)
• 401(k) company match
• Pension
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible schedules
• Tuition reimbursement

We have a long-tenured staff (many with over 30 years of service!), a strong company mission, and an excellent benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Paid time off to Volunteer, paid Leave options, Tuition Reimbursement, and employer-paid Pension and a 401(k) with both Roth and a healthy company match. Many of our larger locations also feature onsite gyms, walking tracks, exercise rooms, and even employee gardens.

We strive to have a diverse workforce made up of people from all backgrounds, including minorities, women, and veterans, who bring their experience to support the innovation and quality that Kyocera is known for.

Kyocera International, Inc. also has a robust corporate culture and philosophy based on the experiences and writings of our founder, Dr. Kazuo Inamori, which you can learn more about here: https://global.kyocera.com/inamori/philosophy/. Our company motto is "Do the right thing as a human being," and we try to use that in our decision-making constantly.

Senior Azure Data Engineer (IT6032)

Job Description

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION

Pay Range - $122,491.15 - 177,362.83 (Actual base pay based on factors such as relevant experience, education, market, qualifications, and skills)

SUMMARY

The Senior Azure Data Engineer will invent mechanisms and processes for speed and scale for solution development and support. This position is for an innovative senior data engineer who is a self-driven and results-oriented individual who is not afraid of big challenges but is also able to focus on excellent end user support, and successfully drive programs from start to finish.

The Senior Azure Data Engineer oversees program management of medium to large projects with a well-rounded technical background in business intelligent solutions. The position drives business transformative, high-level initiatives as part of a large Digital Transformation strategic platform.

REQUIREMENTS

* 5+ years of industry experience in data engineering and building world class data solutions.

* Excellent communication skills and a passion for collaborating with a diverse team and help foster an environment that promotes effective teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitment.

* Builds relationships, effective teams, and networks that extend throughout the company.

* Able to effectively communicate with senior management on deployment plans, project deliverables, and related matters.

* Ability to think abstractly and deal with ambiguous/undefined problems.

* Obsession with quality, operational excellence, and customer experience

* Demonstrated ability to manage tradeoffs and evaluate opportunistic new ideas.

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills

* Willingness to roll up one's sleeves to get the job done.

* Eligible to work in an ITAR environment.

* Ability to effectively speak and read English.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

* Build, design, maintain, and optimize data structures for data collection, management, transformation, and access in enterprise data lakes and warehouses.

* Preparing data for predictive and prescriptive modeling

* Review and improve where possible business processes, best practices, and data quality, efficiency, and reliability.

* Proactively consults with management to determine goals and priorities of new projects and consider process management improvements.

* Lead or oversee medium and large-scale change solutions focused on business process improvement.

* Create and implement strategies and plans to ensure user adoption and proficiency of all enterprise data solutions, as well as to minimize overall risk.

* Ensure project management techniques are used for all solutions and critical issue resolution including communications plan, training plan, impact assessment / resistance management plans.

* Resolve system, applications, and process problems by leveraging Systems, Applications, Analysts, Business Functional Experts, Vendors, and contract personnel as required.

* Drive engagement, organizational assessment, impact analysis, learning/training, communications, business readiness, deployment, and adoption measurement throughout projects.

* Work with internal and external auditors to provide clarity on business practices and resolve issues.

QUALIFICATIONS

* Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.

* Minimum 5 years of experience architecting enterprise data solutions

* Inclusive of Data Warehouse fact and dimensional modeling concepts

* Architecting data solutions for simplicity, massive scale, resiliency, and maintainability

* Experience with ETL/ELT on transactional systems, such as SAP S4/HANA, Odoo, HubSpot.

* Proficiency in Azure Synapse, Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Pipelines, Data Factory, Python, Databricks, SQL

* Experience with data tools such as Power BI and Tabular models (DAX) in Visual Studio, Purview

* Expertise with cloud automation tooling such as ARM Templates and Terraform

* Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems and databases

* Experience/knowledge of cloud computing, enterprise computing, PaaS, IaaS and/or SaaS products

* Experience in technical leadership in driving engineering roadmaps, mentoring, and helping others grow technically.

* Experience taking a leading role in building a complex data modeling system.

* Knowledge of functional areas, such as, order to cash, plan to produce, etc. is plus.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Bachelor's degree or 5 years of related experience. Working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment is a plus. Deep understanding of data warehousing and modeling techniques. Experience using Agile methodologies. Understanding of corporate audit programs (such as SOX) and ensuring system and procedure experience a plus.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Directly supervises a total of 0 employee(s). Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance, rewarding, and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

PLANNING

Limited responsibility regarding specific assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work operations.

DECISION MAKING

Performs work operations which permit frequent opportunity for decision-making of importance, and which would significantly affect the operating efficiency of the department.

ANALYTICAL ABILITY / PROBLEM SOLVING

Moderately repetitive. Activities with slight variation using a definite set of processes or directions with some degree of supervision. Choice of learned things in situations which conform to clearly established patterns and modes.

PUBLIC CONTACT

No public contact.

SOFTWARE SKILLS REQUIRED

Strong: Alphanumeric Data Entry, Database, Presentation/PowerPoint, Spreadsheet, Word Processing/Typing

Strong: Contact Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Human Resources Systems, Programming Languages

PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

The following physical activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, talk or hear; frequently required to stand, sit; and occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

The following work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to risk of electrical shock.

The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The above statements are intended to describe the work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. The duties and responsibilities of this position are subject to change and other duties may be assigned or removed at any time.

This position may require exposure to information subject to US export control regulations, i.e. the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR) or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR).

Kyocera International, Inc. values diversity in its workforce, and is proud to be an AAP/EEO employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or based on disability.

If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability or unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, you may contact Kyocera International, Inc.'s Human Resources team directly. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.