Bayer Crop Science seeks a Staff Data Engineer

• Lead and participate in design sessions with Enterprise and Hub Data Stewards, Engineering teams, Data Scientists, Product Managers, business and Information Technology (IT) stakeholders, that result in documentation for data processing, storage and delivery solutions;
• Understand business capability needs and processes as they relate to IT solutions through partnering with Product Managers and business and functional IT stakeholders, and apply this knowledge to defining business problems that need to be solved;
• Initiate and lead evaluation of new technologies, like Domino or Redshift, or new languages, like Go or React, including performing POCs and presenting results to others, with a goal of providing technical recommendations;
• Help the team establish and improve processes and methodologies, like SCRUM or Kanban, and/or lead piloting new ones;
• Implement data solutions according to design documentation using a variety of tools and programming languages, like Kafka, SQL and non-SQL databases, Scala, Go etc., and following team’s established processes and methodologies;
• Facilitate and participate in code reviews, retrospectives, functional and integration testing and other team activities focused on improving quality of delivery;
• Provide reliable estimates for large scale projects;
• Initiate collaboration with Product Owners, other engineers and data stewards within the team and across data, technical platforms and product teams on planning and aligning roadmaps, delivery dates and integration efforts;
• Coach and mentor junior and aspiring Data Engineers on the team and across the data and engineering communities;
• Facilitate various cross team efforts, like Scrum of Scrums and Release Planning, focused on large scale roadmap alignments, sharing information, solving broad variety of problems, or improving processes;
• Discuss effectively work or provide detail to the right level of audience, which includes business partners, data scientists, engineering teams etc.;
• Create and maintain design and code documentation in GitHub, Haystack, SharePoint and/or other repositories used by the team.
  
  

required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field;
• At least eight years of professional software engineering experience (Master’s degree counts as two years of experience and Ph.D. counts as four years of experience);
• At least five years of experience engineering data intensive software using streaming and resource based design principles;
• At least three years of experience in least one NoSQL database, such as Neo4j, Cassandra, etc.;
• Platform-as-a-Service software such as Cloud Foundry or Kubernetes;
• At least five years fluency in an object oriented or functional language such as Java, Scala, Go, etc.;
• Demonstrated experience with data architecture and modeling, including designing both logical and physical models for datasets;
• Proficiency in working with relational databases such as Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, etc.;
• Proven experience modeling large datasets in distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra;
• Strong interpersonal skills and desire to work in a highly collaborative environment;
• Familiarity with the relevant industry trends.

preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Agriculture, life sciences, bioinformatics, biochemistry, genetics, biology, or a related disciplines;
• Stream processing, e.g. Kafka, Spark Streaming, Akka, etc.;
• Knowledge of machine learning or other data science practices;
• Experience contributing to open source projects.