Senior Data Engineer

📋 Description

• • As a Senior Data Engineer within the Insights & Advisory team at Cox Automotive, you will be instrumental in architecting, developing, and optimizing the data infrastructure that underpins critical enterprise-wide decision-making. This pivotal role demands a blend of profound technical acumen in data engineering and a steadfast commitment to ensuring data quality, integrity, and accessibility for both internal stakeholders and external automotive OEM clients.
• • You will be a key contributor to the strategic vision and execution of our data architecture roadmap, leveraging cutting-edge AI, machine learning, and big data technologies to enable advanced analytics and drive business insights. A core aspect of your responsibility will be embedding robust testing and validation methodologies throughout the entire data lifecycle, ensuring the reliability and trustworthiness of all data assets.
• • Your responsibilities will span the design and implementation of sophisticated data architectures capable of handling diverse data types, including structured and unstructured information from a multitude of internal and external sources. You will be tasked with building and maintaining scalable, secure, and efficient data pipelines, utilizing leading cloud-based platforms and distributed computing technologies.
• • A significant part of your role will involve establishing optimal data structures and routing mechanisms, meticulously aligning them with both immediate business needs and long-term technical objectives, while ensuring strict adherence to enterprise architecture standards.
• • You will champion data quality and automated testing by developing and executing comprehensive automated test cases. These tests will rigorously validate ETL workflows, data pipelines, and the logic behind reporting mechanisms, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
• • Furthermore, you will create and maintain regression test suites designed to guarantee the ongoing integrity of our data and the stability of our systems. Proactive monitoring and troubleshooting of data anomalies will be crucial, requiring you to identify root causes swiftly and implement effective solutions to maintain high standards of data quality across all analytical and reporting outputs.
• • You will develop advanced data solutions by creating tools and writing code to cleanse, organize, and transform data, employing AI, ML, and big data techniques to extract maximum value. Automating manual data processes will be a key initiative, transforming them into repeatable, scalable, and efficient capabilities.
• • Collaboration will be central to your success, as you partner with data consumers, project managers, and business stakeholders to define logical and physical database designs tailored for advanced analytics models. You will also work closely with internal and external data providers to validate data accuracy, offer constructive feedback, and customize data feeds and mappings to meet specific requirements.
• • Clear and concise communication of findings and test results to both technical and non-technical audiences will be essential for driving understanding and adoption of data-driven strategies.
• • You will actively contribute to process improvement and innovation by identifying and implementing enhancements to internal data management and testing procedures. Your technical leadership and innovative thinking will influence the future direction of our data infrastructure roadmap.
• • You will also contribute to the development and refinement of design standards and assurance processes for software, systems, and applications, ensuring best practices are consistently applied.
• • This role offers a unique opportunity to work with a collaborative team that values innovation, precision, and tangible impact, shaping the future of data infrastructure and empowering business leaders with reliable, high-quality data solutions at Cox Automotive.