Data Engineer - Associate Systems Engineer

About AutoZone:

AutoZone is the nation's leading retailer and a leading distributor of automotive replacement parts and accessories with more than 6,000 stores in US, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Brazil. Each store carries an extensive line for cars, sport utility vehicles, vans and light trucks, including new and remanufactured hard parts, maintenance items and accessories.

We also sell automotive diagnostic and repair software through ALLDATA, diagnostic and repair information through ALLDATAdiy.com, automotive accessories through AutoAnything.com and auto and light truck parts and accessories through AutoZone.com.

Since opening its first store in Forrest City, Ark. on July 4, 1979, the company has joined the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: AZO) and earned a spot in the Fortune 500.

AutoZone has been committed to providing the best parts, prices, and customer service in the automotive aftermarket industry. We have a rich culture and history of going the Extra Mile for our customers and our community. At AutoZone you’re not just doing a job; you’re playing a crucial role in creating a better experience for our customers, while creating opportunities to DRIVE YOUR CAREER almost anywhere! We are looking for talented people who are customer focused, enjoy helping others and have the DRIVE to excel in a fast-paced environment!

Position Summary

The Systems Engineer will design data model solutions and ensure alignment between business and IT strategies, operating models, guiding principles, and software development with a focus on the information layer. The Systems Engineer works across business lines and IT domains to ensure that information is viewed as a corporate asset. This includes its proper data definition, creation, usage, archival, and governance. The Systems Engineer works with other engineers and Data Architects to design overall solutions in accordance with industry best practices, principles and standards. The Systems Engineer strives to create and improve the quality of systems, provide more flexible solutions, and reduce time-to-market.

Key Responsibilities

• Enhance and maintain the AutoZone information strategy.
• Ensure alignment of programs and projects with the strategic AZ Information Roadmap and related strategies
• Perform gap analysis between current data structures and target data structures.
• Enhance and maintain the Enterprise Information Model
• Work with service architects and application architects to assist with the creation of proper data access and utilization methods.
• Gather complex business requirements and translate product and project needs into data models supporting long-term solutions.
• Serve as a technical data strategy expert and lead the creation of technical requirements and design deliverables.
• Define and communicate data standards, industry best practices, technologies, and architectures.
• Check conformance to standards and resolve any conflicts by explaining and justifying architectural decisions.
• Recommend and evaluate new tools and methodologies as needed.
• Manage, communicate, and improve the data governance framework.

Requirements:

• A systems thinker, able to move fluidly between high-level abstract thinking and detail-oriented implementation, open minded to new ideas, approaches, and technologies
• A data and fact-driven decision maker, with an ability to make quick decisions under uncertainty when necessary; able to quickly learn new technologies, tools, and organizational structures/strategies
• Understanding of current industry standard best practices regarding integration, architecture, tools, and processes
• A self-starter that is naturally inquisitive, requiring only small pieces to the puzzle, across many technologies – new and legacy
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and analytical skills, including the ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts and designs to a broad range of people.

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree in MIS, Computer Science or similar degree or experience required
• Minimum 3+ yrs experience and knowledge of database systems such as Oracle, Postgres, UDB/DB2, BigQuery, Spanner, JSON, and Couchbase
• Minimum 2 years of experience with data requirements gathering, acquisition of data from difference business systems, ingestion of data in GCP using managed services namely BigQuery, DataFlow, Composer, Pub/Sub and other ingestion technologies, curation of the data using DBT or other similar technologies and creating data marts/wide tables for analysis and reporting consumption.
• Assembling large, complex sets of data that meet non-functional and functional business requirements
• Identifying, designing, and implementing internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes
• Building required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources using GCP and SQL technologies
• Building analytical tools to utilize the data pipeline, providing actionable insight into key business performance metrics including operational efficiency and customer acquisition.
• Working with stakeholders including data, design, product, and executive teams and assisting them with data-related technical issues
• Working with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to support their data infrastructure needs while assisting with data-related technical issues.
• Relational & NoSQL database design capability across OLTP & OLAP
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to facilitate modeling sessions and communicate appropriately with IT and business customers
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies
• Experience with large-replicated databases across distributed and cloud data centers

Our Values:

An AutoZoner Always.....

• PUTS CUSTOMERS FIRST
• CARES ABOUT PEOPLE
• STRIVES FOR EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCE
• ENERGIZES OTHERS
• EMBRACES DIVERSITY
• HELPS TEAMS SUCCEED