Data Engineer

Who We Are:

Lippert is a leading, global manufacturer and supplier of highly engineered products and customized solutions, dedicated to shaping, growing and bettering the RV, marine, automotive, commercial vehicle and building products industries. We combine our strategic manufacturing capabilities with the power of our winning team culture to deliver unrivaled customer service, award-winning innovation, and premium products to all of our customers.

Why We are Different:

At Lippert, Everyone Matters. This is not just a tagline or empty promise; it is who we are. We have intentionally created a culture that values and celebrates our team members' unique and varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We strive to give our team members a deeper sense of purpose at work, and we continue to build a better work environment by aligning our cultural and business strategies with the needs of our team members.

What You will Get:

1. A unique, inclusive and supportive company culture.
2. Comprehensive benefit offerings including medical, dental, vision, 401k with employer match, vacation, and more!
3. Fair and competitive compensation.
4. Career development and mentoring and opportunities to grow.
5. Holiday, personal and vacation days.

Summary/Objective

The Data Engineer documents, supports, and automates the cloud data warehouse for Lippert Components. The candidate should have experience with ELT/ETL and dimensional modeling. The candidate must be able to work in a dynamic and rapidly expanding environment.

Essential Functions

1.Design, build, and optimize ETL / ELT pipelines in Python, SQL, and Spark on Databricks to ingest data from diverse sources into our Delta Lake.

2. Develop and maintain data models that power analytics dashboards, AI/ML models, and downstream applications.

3. Implement data quality checks, validation rules, and transformations to ensure data integrity.

4. Work closely with stakeholders to understand data requirements and align them with business needs.

5. Strong desire to document and automate common tasks

6. Participate in data governance efforts, including data cleansing, standardization, and de-duplication.

7. Monitor data quality, identify issues, and develop solutions to improve data accuracy.

8. Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in data engineering, analytics, and AI.

Supervisory Responsibility
This position has no supervisory responsibility.

Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to handle, feel, or reach. This position is not very active when it comes to movement and requires a lot of typing and sitting in a chair.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time salary position and the expected work hours are 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday.

Travel

There is minimal to no travel with this position.

Competencies

1. You're compassionate and trustworthy, and set high standards
2. You're not afraid to ask questions and you are open to constructive criticism
3. You're self-driven and take ownership of your work
4. You're enthusiastic and adapt to change well
5. Ability to communicate (written and verbal) clearly, concisely and effectively

Requirements

1. 5 + years building large-scale data platforms; 3 + years deep hands-on Databricks & Spark experience.

2. Track record designing/implementing data models and slowly changing dimensions in lake-house or DW environments.

3. Proven experience with cost management, performance tuning, and cluster lifecycle automation.

4. Strong communication skills; ability to distill complex topics for engineers, executives, and product teams.

5. Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks and priorities.

What'll Make you Special

1. Experience with Dynamics365 F&O or DynamicsAX

2. Expert-level Python and Spark SQL; comfortable with structured streaming, Auto-Loader, and Delta Lake internals.

Work Authorization/Security Clearance:

1. Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
2. Possession of a valid driver's license

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Lippert provides equal employment opportunity to all team members and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, disability, citizen status, protected veteran status, military service, marital status or any other legally protected category as established by federal, state, or local law. This policy governs all employment decisions, including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, compensation, training, promotion, discipline, transfer, leave-of-absence, access to benefits, layoff, recall, termination and other personnel matters. All employment and personnel-related decisions are based solely upon legitimate, job-related factors, such as skill, ability, past performance, and length of service with Lippert.

Lippert's strong commitment to equal employment opportunity requires a commitment by each individual team member. Compliance with the letter and spirit of this policy is required of all team members. Violations of this policy should be immediately reported to your leader or to any member of leadership. Team members who violate this policy will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.

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