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Dow · 2 weeks ago

IT Data Engineer

Houston (TX, USA)

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

2+ years exp

Dow is a leading materials science company dedicated to delivering a sustainable future through science and collaboration. The Data Engineer role focuses on driving technical implementation and contributing to the design of scalable data products on the Azure Databricks Lakehouse Platform, while solving complex technical challenges and ensuring data reliability.

AgricultureChemicalInnovation ManagementManufacturing

Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

Responsibilities

Technical Design Contribution: Collaborate with senior data engineers to translate complex business requirements and ambiguous problem statements into clear, robust, and scalable technical designs and data models (e.g., dimensional modeling, star schemas), and independently drive the implementation of these designs

Performance Optimization: Design, build, and deploy high-volume data transformation logic using highly optimized PySpark. You will apply advanced techniques to tune Spark jobs and diagnose performance bottlenecks to ensure maximum efficiency and minimal cloud compute cost

Architecture & Deployment: Contribute significantly to the design and improvement of CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps/Git, ensuring reliable, automated, and secure deployment of data solutions across environments

Diverse Data Integration: Deeply understand and connect to various source systems, demonstrating proficiency in managing data persistence and query performance across diverse technologies like SQL Server, Neo4j, and CosmosDB

Quality & Governance: Proactively implement and maintain advanced data quality frameworks (e.g., Delta Live Tables, Great Expectations) and monitoring solutions to ensure data reliability for mission-critical applications

Collaboration & Mentorship: Serve as a go-to technical resource for peers, conducting technical code reviews and informally mentoring Associate Data Engineers on PySpark and Databricks best practices

Qualification

PySparkAdvanced Data ModelingCloud OrchestrationData IntegrationData Quality EngineeringCI/CD PipelinesAzure Data FactorySQL ServerCommunication SkillsCollaboration

Required

A minimum of a bachelor's degree or relevant military experience at or above a U.S. E5 ranking or Canadian Petty Officer 2nd Class or Sergeant OR 5 years relevant experience in lieu of a Bachelor's degree

Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or a closely related field

A minimum requirement for this U.S. based position is the ability to work legally in the United States. No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of U.S. permanent residency (green card) process

Preferred

Experience with cloud cost management principles related to compute (Databricks) and storage (ADLS)

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, ARM templates)

Proficiency with data visualization and dashboarding tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau)

Benefits

Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.

Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental, financial, and social well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.

Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning, and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.

Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).

Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only).

Robust medical and life insurance packages that offer a variety of coverage options to meet your individual needs.

Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.

Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.

Competitive yearly vacation allowance.

Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).

Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.

Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation.

Wellbeing Portal for all Dow employees, our one-stop shop to promote wellbeing, empowering employees to take ownership of their entire wellbeing journey.

On-site fitness facilities to help stay healthy and active (availability varies depending on location).

Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.

Additionally, some of our locations might offer: Transportation allowance (availability varies depending on location), Meal subsidiaries/vouchers (availability varies depending on location), Carbon-neutral transportation incentives e.g. bike to work (availability varies depending on location)