Job Summary
Western Midstream is seeking an early career data engineer to join our new Data Center of Excellence team in The Woodlands, TX. As a data engineer, you will be responsible for deploying and maintaining innovative solutions utilizing best-in-class platforms, cloud services, and open-source technologies. You will use your skills in data and development to improve and streamline our operations and help our users succeed.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and manage data pipelines to ingest, transform, and distribute data between on-premises and cloud destinations.
- Utilize technologies from Aveva PI, Qlik, OpenText, SAP Datasphere, and Azure Cloud Services, including Fabric, Data Factory, Synapse, and more to enable custom applications and BI efforts.
- Employ programming languages like C#, Java, or Python for automation and API integrations tasks.
- Work closely with developers and engineers to provide automation and data necessary for custom applications, visualizations, and analytic models.
- Conduct thorough functional testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning to ensure the reliability and efficiency of developed solutions.
- Integrate and maintain new data management technologies, processes, and monitoring tools.
Requirements:
- 1-2 years of experience as a Data Engineer or Developer (Python preferred).
- Basic knowledge of Azure cloud services, relational database design principles, performance tuning, and optimization.
- Exhibit analytic skills related to working with both structured and unstructured datasets.
- Proficiency in SQL, ETL/ELT processes/tooling, and data modeling.
- Must have excellent communication skills with the ability to interact with developers supporting requirements gathering.
Education:
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Science, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
Travel Requirements:
- Travel will be required up to 5%.
Work Schedule:
- This position will work 9 hours Monday – Thursday and 4 hours on Friday. The position will require Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday in The Woodlands office.
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