Requisition ID: 20455

Join us in building a better future for Arizona!

SRP is one of the largest public power and water utilities in the U.S. providing electricity to approximately one million customers in the greater metropolitan Phoenix area. Since its founding in 1903, SRP has fostered a culture of stewardship and customer service consistently ranking as an industry leader in customer service according to J.D. Power and named one of Arizona's best employers by Forbes. SRP continues to adapt to its changing business environment by seeking innovative ways to reimagine utility service and the provision of critical resources essential to the life and economy of Arizona.

Why Work at SRP

At SRP, we foster an inclusive work environment and believe everyone should have a fair chance to work, regardless of who they are. That’s why we value teams with diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds to help SRP deliver on its mission of providing reliable, affordable and sustainable water and power.

SRP's success is rooted in our employees' happiness, health, and safety. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees and enhance their well-being. In addition to competitive pay and performance incentives, eligible employees can take advantage of the following benefits:

Pension Plan (at no cost to the employee)
401(k) plan with employer matching
Available your first day: Medical, vision, dental, and life insurance
Over 200+ hours of PTO (includes vacation days, holidays, floating holidays, and sick leave)
Parental leave (up to 4 weeks) and adoption assistance
Wellness programs (including access to a recreation and fitness facility)
Short and long-term disability plans
Tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate programs
10 Employee Resource Groups for career development, community service, and networking

Summary

As a Data Engineer in the Supply & Trading Support Team at Salt River Project (SRP), you will be expected to collaborate with our business partners, understand their business requirements, and develop data driven solutions to meet their needs. You will create & support data models, data pipelines, transform SQL queries and algorithms, and solve interesting business problems. Your outputs will include dashboards, reports, interactive visualizations, datasets, and tools that will be delivered to users across the business units.

What You'll Do

• Understanding your business stakeholders' objectives and guiding them in a process to explore relevant data and analytical methods

• Coding interactive and effective visualizations of data

• Meet regularly with customers to review and demonstrate delivered functionality, and to capture new or changed requirements

• Building the infrastructure for efficient extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of data from a wide variety of data sources

• Creating and maintaining efficient data pipeline architecture

• Assembling large, complex data sets that meet functional/non-functional business requirements

• Identifying, developing, and implementing internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.

• Strive for clean and meaningful data within our consolidated data analytics platform

• Working with technical and non-technical stakeholders to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs

Education

A bachelor's degree relevant to the assignment from an accredited institution is preferred.

Experience

This is being sourced at the Sr. Level:

Level 3 – Senior: Minimum 5 years of relevant experience required. In lieu of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience totaling 9 years may be considered.

Additional Requirements and Qualifications

Experience in developing and/or maintaining: Data Model, ETL/ELT, SQL Queries, and Data Science Models in a business analytics, data warehousing or business intelligence setting
Fundamental knowledge of Snowflake, Hadoop, SQL Server, SAP, Oracle, DB2, Postgres, and other common data platforms
Experience with CI/CD pipelines
Curiosity and passion about utilizing analytics and data to solve problems
Willing to ask questions and challenge data accuracy and assumptions
Creative in solution design to achieve impactful, highly functional, and supportable solutions
Able to translate or transform complicated or technical information into simple and clear communications for non-technical and business audiences
Able to translate business needs and data into models that support KPIs, visualizations, or interactive dashboards that influence behavior
Excellent communication, and presentation skills for a variety of audiences from entry-level employees to executive staff
Thrive in an active collaborative team environment, experience with Agile is a plus
Sensitive to client needs and able to develop strong relationships
Eager and able to continually learn new tools
Familiarity with reporting and visualization tools
Results driven and self-sufficient

Technical Skills

• Preferred: Cloudera Hadoop, Azure Data Lake Storage, Snowflake, DBT, ANSI SQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure DevOps, Python, Experience with other technologies within the Microsoft BI Stack, Microsoft Power Platform, SQL Server, SSRS, Databricks, SAS, Tableau

• Desired: Dataiku, Alteryx

Testing and Certifications

Hybrid Workplace

SRP currently offers a hybrid workplace, which allows employees whose jobs can be performed remotely, and who have sufficient technical capability, to telework up to three days per week. Although teleworking is available, all employees must live and work in Arizona.

Drug/Alcohol Policy Statement

To promote the safety and well-being of our employees, customers, and the communities we serve, SRP is committed to maintaining a drug/alcohol free work environment. Although marijuana may now be legal in Arizona, except as otherwise specified under Arizona law, SRP considers it to be an illegal drug for the purpose of our drug/alcohol policy because marijuana remains illegal at the federal level. Any candidate found to be impaired during the hiring process or who has the presence of an illegal drug or unauthorized substance in their system during the pre-employment drug/alcohol test may be disqualified from further consideration in the hiring process.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Salt River Project (SRP) is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military status, or any other protected status under applicable federal, state or local law.

Work Authorization

All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Currently, SRP does not sponsor H1B visas, OPT, or other employment-related visa's.

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Senior Data Engineer