Data Engineer Job

Company Information

PACCAR is a Fortune 500 company established in 1905. PACCAR Inc is recognized as a global leader in the commercial vehicle, financial, and customer service fields with internationally recognized brands such as Kenworth, Peterbilt, and DAF trucks. PACCAR is a global technology leader in the design, manufacture and customer support of premium light-, medium- and heavy-duty trucks under the Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF nameplates and also provides customized financial services, information technology and truck parts related to its principal business.

Whether you want to design the transportation technology of tomorrow, support the staff functions of a dynamic, international leader, or build our excellent products and services, you can develop the career you desire with PACCAR. Get started!

Division Information

PACCAR's Information Division (ITD), located in Renton, WA utilizes cutting-edge technology to provide systems development, consulting, voice and data communications services to the entire corporation, which has high visibility in the technology sector.

Requisition Summary

Does empowering teams to make data driven decisions excite you? Do you wake up in the morning wondering what possibilities could be unlocked with more data? PACCAR is looking for a data engineer with AWS experience to join the team. Data Engineering focuses on making possible fast, accurate, and reliable access to data. We build data pipelines, manage a data lake, and support the production use of our data. We advocate for leading data practices and make sure that our business users are able to make data driven decisions.

Job Functions / Responsibilities

• Build and document automated data pipelines from a wide range of data sources with an emphasis on automation and scale
• Develop highly available applications and APIs to support near-real-time integrations using an AWS-based technology stack
• Ensure product and technical features are delivered to spec and on-time in a DevOps fashion
• Contribute to overall architecture, framework, and design patterns to store and process high data volumes
• Develop solutions to measure, improve, and monitor data quality based on business requirements
• Design and implement reporting and analytics feature in collaboration with product owners, reporting analysts / data analysts, and business partners within an Agile / Scrum methodology
• Proactively support product health by building solutions that are automated, scalable, and sustainable – be relentlessly focused on minimizing defects and technical debt
• Provide post-implementation production support for data pipelines

Qualifications

• Bachelors' degree in Computer Science, Informatics, or a related field required
• Masters’ degree in Computer Science preferred
• 3+ years of experience in a data engineering role
• 2+ years of experience with AWS and related services (e.g., EC2, S3, SNS, Lambda, IAM, Snowflake)
• Hands-on experience with ETL tools and techniques (Desirable)
• Basic proficiency with a dialect of ANSI SQL, APIs, and Python
• Knowledge of and experience with RDBMS platforms, such as MS SQL Server, MySQL, NoSQL, Postgres
• Experience with participating in time sensitive projects in a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary team environment
• Experience with Kafka is beneficial but not required

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Business Administration or related field required
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or related field preferred

Additional Job Board Information

PACCAR is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veteran/Disability.