Data Engineer

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About this role

Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Data Engineer located in Midland, MI or Houston, TX. This role will make significant technical contributions to critical data initiatives within our team at Dow. You will be responsible for driving the technical implementation and contributing to the design of scalable, Gold-layer data products on the Azure Databricks Lakehouse Platform.

This role focuses on solving complex technical challenges, optimization, architecture contribution, and reliability, ensuring our datasets are performant and ready to power advanced use cases, including:

• Machine Learning (ML) Pipelines
• Real-Time Data Consumption
• Generative and Agentic AI Systems
• Core Enterprise Reporting and BI
• Data-driven Applications

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.

A successful candidate will possess the experience and technical depth required to independently implement and optimize complex data solutions:

• Core Technical Expertise (2-5 Years Demonstrated Experience)
• PySpark and Distributed Processing: Proven ability to write highly optimized, production-grade PySpark/Spark code. Experience identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in a distributed computing environment.
• Advanced Data Modeling: Practical experience designing and implementing analytical data models (e.g., dimensional modeling, star/snowflake schemas) and handling Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCDs).
• Cloud Orchestration: Expertise in using Azure Data Factory (ADF), Databricks Workflows, or equivalent tools (e.g., Airflow) for complex dependency management, error handling, and end-to-end pipeline orchestration.
• Database Versatility: Demonstrated experience with advanced SQL and hands-on experience querying and integrating data from at least one non-relational or Graph database (e.g., CosmosDB, Neo4j).
• Engineering Mindset and Professional Growth
• Technical Design Contribution: Ability to rapidly synthesize information and contribute clear, well-documented technical specifications and architectural diagrams to the design process.
• Feature Ownership: Demonstrated history of taking ownership of complex features and modules within larger projects, driving them to completion, and managing technical dependencies autonomously.
• Pragmatism and Initiative: A strong bias for action, coupled with a pragmatic approach to delivering stable, maintainable, and cost-effective solutions.
• Communication & Influence: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical designs to both engineering peers and senior stakeholders, effectively influencing technical decisions.

Required Qualifications

• 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 degre