Data Engineer, Senior

Entergy Corporation is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join its data platform team in New Orleans, Louisiana (hybrid). In this role, you will partner with a solution architect to design and deliver end-to-end data processing solutions that support internal stakeholders with reliable and secure data.

What you will do

• Design systems and data models that can handle structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, including stream processing.
• Evaluate data sources and propose feasible data pipeline and ETL approaches.
• Design, develop, and deploy data pipelines and/or ETL processes across environments.
• Implement and test enterprise-wide data architectures, ensuring appropriate governance and security.
• Create and configure metadata and repositories, including related configuration management tasks.
• Build integrated views of enterprise data from across the organization in both real-time and extract forms.
• Package deployments and collaborate with IT to migrate code between Development, Quality Assurance (QA), and Production.
• Support test automation, troubleshoot ETL job functionality, validate data, and create test data and table structures using SQL.
• Work effectively in an agile, rapid delivery environment.
• Collaborate with other members of the data analytics platform team to plan and execute strategies for adopting new tools, technologies, and alternative solution architectures, including leveraging the cloud.
• Serve as a resource for colleagues with less experience and may lead small projects with manageable scope and risk.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a data engineer using standard data management principles.
• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a data-centric field (examples include Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Systems, Information Processing, Engineering, etc.).
• Experience on AWS GovCloud (isolated AWS environment serving U.S. federal agencies and housing export controlled data).
• Experience on the AWS Commercial cloud.
• ETL experience.
• Cloud-based computing experience such as AWS or Azure.
• Experience with big data technologies and data warehousing (including mining, analysis, self-service, or machine learning).
• Data governance experience.
• Experience with both structured and unstructured data.
• Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database technologies.
• Data modeling experience.
• Hands-on use of Python, SQL, and Spark.
• Airflow experience.
• Strong technical communication, including writing and presentation skills.
• Authorization to work in the United States is required; Entergy does not sponsor work visas for this position.
• Proficiency in a PC Windows environment (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint).

Travel and working expectations

• Travel: up to 25%.
• As an essential services provider, Entergy expects employees may need to work additional hours, work alternate locations, and/or perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary.
• Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with these duties.

Tech stack and focus areas

• AWS GovCloud, AWS Commercial cloud, AWS, Azure
• ETL, stream processing, relational and non-relational databases
• SQL, NoSQL, Python, Spark, Airflow
• metadata and repository work
• Windows (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint)

Employment details: Professional FLSA status, non-bargaining unit, 1 opening. Legal entity: Entergy Services, LLC. Working location includes Louisiana-New Orleans (hybrid) with a primary location listing that also references Texas (Woodlands). Accessibility accommodations are available for online applicants.