Iowa State University Research Park
Senior Data Engineer

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Location: Johnston, IA
Job Description
As a Senior Data Engineer for Customer & Commercial Intelligence located in Johnston, IA, Moline, IL or Remote at manager’s discretion, you will:
- Design, deploy, and maintain data pipelines, data products, analytics solutions, and AI capabilities that optimize performance, storage, compute consumption, and token utilization while effectively managing cost
- Build contextual data layers and supporting infrastructure using engineering practices for reliable delivery
- Partner with Customer Success, Marketing, Finance, and Commerce teams
- Define development requirements and validation criteria
This requisition is intended to fill two Senior Data Engineer openings within Customer & Commercial Intelligence. Successful candidates may be placed on either the Activation & Utilization team or the CCI Enablement team based on business needs, experience, and areas of interest.
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What Skills You Need
- 3 or more years of work experience in data engineering, software engineering, or related field in delivering scalable and reliable data solutions leveraging cloud technologies
- 3 or more years of experience in analytics/data platforms and/or technologies (e.g., Databricks, Spark, Python, or Java as well as CI/CD tools particularly Databricks and GitHub Actions)
- Experience designing and implementing scalable data models to support data products and analytics
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to translate information seamlessly between technical and non-technical audiences
- Self-starting and eager to lead through ambiguous situations or topics
- Detail oriented with a demonstrated ability to understand and manipulate complex systems


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What Makes You Stand Out
- Experience working with tech stack equipped machine and customer data (See & Spray, Harvest Automation, Premium Precision, Autonomous Tillage, etc.)
- Cross-domain experience within varied business areas such as John Deere Financial, ISG, Engineering, Customer Success, Marketing, or something similar
- Experience building for and supporting AI based solutions
- API experience
- Databricks Certified Data Engineer
Education
Ideally, you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical or analytics related discipline, or equivalent work experience in an analytics role demonstrating proficiency in the required skills
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