Senior Data Engineer

JOB TITLE: Senior Data Engineer 
JOB LOCATION: Waltham, MA (Mostly remote onsite for meetings) 
WAGE RANGE*: $70-75/hr.
JOB NUMBER: NGGJP00017808

• Hybrid but flexible. / Primarily remote.
• Occasional travel to the office for quarterly planning meetings
• Must live within commuting distance to NG

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job Purpose

The Senior Data Engineer is a collaborative, hands-on role on the Digital Platform Data Engineering Team responsible for designing sound, scalable, and performant solutions that meet the requirements in a large data volume enterprise, and leading the teams responsible for implementation. Solutions and design trade-offs are communicated to business and technical stakeholders for effective decision making.
The Senior Data Engineer will work on a major IT initiative to enable National Grid Business Partners by improving how our employees serve our customers today and by creating the platform for tomorrow's growth. Applicant must be fluent in data warehousing, with a focus on analytical platforms.

Key Accountabilities

Perform and collaborate on system designs, data solution development including data migration and extracts from multiple legacy systems

Updates to data mappings and data catalogs
Participate in, and/or lead, design and pre-deployment reviews.
Data profiling

Design and development of data synchronization processes
Participate in the design/development of SaaS solutions, including data modeling
Assist in determining the cross-application data standards, data distribution standards and promote data-driven design

Create database deliverables ensuring quality and traceability to requirements and adherence to all quality management plans and governance standards
Work with the team to ensure that all components work together to meet objectives and performance goals as defined in the requirements. Identify and communicate any cross-area or cross-release issues that may affect other areas of the project
Participate in go-live preparation activities such as QA, dress rehearsals, issue remediation, cutover and go-live aftercare

Participate in data management maturity assessments to identify gaps and pain points for capabilities including data quality, governance, analytics, metadata management, master data management
Seek opportunities for continuous improvement in processes, procedures and systems with regards to data

  
Supervisory/Interpersonal- Experience RequiredGood team leadership and influencing skills for colleagues, partners / vendors; project sponsors
 
 

Other requirements:

Ability to work with cross-functional teams, subject matter experts, and architects

Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities

* While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations. Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage; employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions. Benefits offered are in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and subject to change at TCM's discretion.