Title: Staff Engineer - Data

Location: Atlanta United States

Job Description:

Company Background:

Established in 1928, Genuine Parts Company is a leading global service organization specializing in the distribution of automotive and industrial replacement parts. Our Automotive Parts Group operates across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australasia, France, the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Portugal, while our Industrial Parts Group serves customers in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Australasia. We keep the world moving with a vast network of over 10,700 locations spanning 17 countries supported by more than 60,000 teammates.

Position Purpose:

Seeking world-class talent to join the world's leading distributor of automotive and industrial replacement parts and value-added services operating 5,500+ locations and servicing more than 20,000 locations in the U.S and Canada. Specifically, this role will function as the Staff Engineer of a newly formed team of Engineers to build the next generation commerce platforms at GPC. Working with a highly talented team, you'll play a key role to build and run one of the world's largest automotive and industrial replacement parts operations.

This is an engineering leadership role with responsibility for enabling cloud transformation and execution for GPC's unified data platform.

This individual must be a technologist & engineer at heart and be comfortable in enabling new technology and being hands on with the execution of the strategy. She/he must exhibit a deep understanding of modern technology stack and agile delivery models, demonstrated focus on customer experience, and must have a proven track record of modernizing technologies.

Close collaboration and alignment with business teams, application development teams and security will be required. As such, exceptional abilities in building and maintaining strong working relationships and organizational savvy will be required. High level communication and presentation skills are required. Ability to attract, retain, and develop engineering talent will be critical.

Responsibilities:

Lead the development and build out of cloud data management solutions to support the Sales Domain (data pipelines, metadata, data catalog, reference data, and data quality)
Reviews business context for data solutions to company challenges as well as defining the vision and requirements for the solution, recommending potential options, selecting the most optimal option, and the development of a roadmap for the selected solution.
Initiate both group and one-on-one meetings with senior management to gain a clear understanding of business drivers and functional requirements.
Collaborate and work closely with other teammates to achieve team goals and outcomes.
Defining Data Architecture, standards, industry best practices and communicating across engineering teams to ensure adoption and governance.
Assist in setting direction and driving change in data technologies for optimal solutions based on type of workload.
Design conceptual/logical data models, data flows and source to target mappings.
Maintain data models, lineage, data dictionary, glossary etc. by using enterprise tools to be consistent across all other data domains and products.
Lead design and architecture discussions for IT platforms engaging with other staff engineers, engineering teams across different business units to ensure secure and scalable solutions.
Provides analysis of security protection technologies as necessary
Performance tuning and optimizing data processing/consumption workloads.
Coordinate with business and analytics needs to identify future requirements and solutions.
Mentor new resources.
Daily attend team standups and agile ceremonies
Employ best practices around observability, monitoring, and system resilience.
Other duties as assigned.

Location:

GPC has two work locations to choose from, Duluth or Atlanta office.
We offer a Flexible Work Policy that permits eligible employees to work remotely.

Desired Qualifications & Experiences:

Degree in Computer Science or Engineering fields, or equivalent experience
8 years&#39; (10+ preferred) experience in software engineering & technology (5+ years in data architecture design and development)
Proven technical leadership and skills in creating, leading and implementing Data Management architecture for large enterprise scale applications.
Experience with Enterprise Data Strategy, Data Modeling, Data Architecture and dealing with structured and semi-structured data at scale.
Working knowledge of various types of database management systems and approaches to solve OLTP and OLAP workloads (including but not limited to traditional RDBMS systems, NoSQL, BigData and modern cloud native data warehousing solutions)
Advanced SQL skills
Experience with Data Modeling Tools (Erwin a plus)
Experience with Informatica (Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services a plus)
Experience in designing, building and implementing re-usable utilities.
Experience with python scripting.
Extensive knowledge around various data integration patterns against databases (inbound and outbound) to solve for real-time, and batch workloads.
Familiarity with Salesforce CRM and Salesforce data modeling. (SOQL and SOSL is a plus).
Experience with data integrations patterns with Salesforce Sales Cloud.
Familiarity with data visualization tools like PowerBI
Experience in AI/ML, data science and statistical/machine is a plus.
Excellent oral and written communication
Analytical and problem-solving skills
Comfortable with ambiguity and time spent outside of comfort zone acquiring new skills.
Technically creative and open-minded

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GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.

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