Senior Data Engineer - Remote - WATTS

The Watts Water Technologies family of companies designs and manufactures valves and drains and related products that promote the comfort and safety of people and the quality, conservation and control of water used in commercial, residential, industrial, and municipal applications. Everything we design is made to keep the Earth's most precious resource safer, cleaner, and more useful for our customers.




We are looking for a Data Engineer to join the Watts Digital team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to build a next generation data platform that serves digital solutions and other teams within Watts. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our data architecture, ensuring the availability and reliability of data for various business functions. You will work with key stakeholders to apply data analytics, models, and techniques to assist in realizing the value of data. You will architect and implement scalable ETL pipelines that contribute to a centralized data repository leveraging data lake architecture. As a valued technical leader, you will be responsible for ensuring our technology decisions align and scale with our architectural north star. You will directly contribute to a culture of excellence in Watts Digital’s growing engineering organization and be a pivotal member in enhancing our engineering standards and processes.




You Will:




Technical Implementation and Architecture

+ Design, implement, and own ETL pipelines and data lakehouse architecture across Watts digital solutions

+ Build large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines with data processing frameworks like Spark and Databricks

+ Utilize optimal ETL patterns, frameworks, query techniques, and sourcing from structured and unstructured data sources into a central Watts data repository that supports varying use-cases

+ Work closely with Watts business units and engineering teams to develop a strategy for long term data platform architecture which will be efficient, reliable and scalable

+ Lead and contribute to technical architecture discussions and driving technical decisions across engineering teams

+ Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and data scientists to understand data needs, representing key data insights in a meaningful way

+ Communicate technology decisions and outcomes to key stakeholders (e.g. sponsors, partners, product teams)

+ Determine and implement a security model based on privacy requirements; addressing data quality issues, and evolving governance processes within allocated areas of ownership

+ Ensure that the systems we develop and maintain result in highly scalable, feature-rich solutions that minimize support costs and deliver value to customers

+ Develop and maintain solution architecture diagrams and documentation

+ Advise and support the team on selection and implementation of modern technologies including languages, open-source and third-party tools to increase efficiency and improve technology and product offerings






Execution, Product Delivery and Results

+ Lead the architecture and delivery of scalable ETL pipelines and data stores

+ Optimize pipelines, dashboards, frameworks, and systems to facilitate easier development of data artifacts

+ Enable streamlining our data science workflows, adding value to our product offerings and building out the customer lifecycle and retention models

+ Clean, prepare and optimize data at scale for ingestion and consumption

+ Working closely with other Engineers, Quality Assurance, Operations, and 3rd party vendors to successfully deliver and deploy solutions to production

+ Define and manage SLA for all data sets

+ Identify and implement the right analytical libraries, programming languages, and frameworks for each task

+ Advocate a continuous improvement mindset regarding our development process, with a focus on how we can automate regular, high-quality, releases in an agile environment

+ Continuously rebalancing features, which maximize value and minimize effort to focus on the highest returning initiatives for business and customer

+ Champion a culture of learning, measurement, accountability, and quality via code reviews, paired programming, and other collaboration opportunities with the team

+ Collaborate with Product Owners on the backlog and providing high level effort estimation to plan feature prioritization more accurately and development






BUs, Operations, IT, Information Security and Infrastructure

+ Partner with hardware BUs to understand their needs and deliver platform-oriented solutions

+ Continuing to evolve security practices and controls to meet the needs of protecting customer data

+ Champion a culture of compliance as it pertains to data to meet legal, regulatory, and operational data requirements

+ Partner with IT and operations in support of enterprise IT strategy

+ Ensure we are building necessary observability into our systems that provide transparency across the entire data architecture stack

+ Work with engineering teams and assisting Customer Success and Operations team in triaging and resolving production issues




You Have:

+ Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or related discipline

+ 5+ years of experience with ETL technologies

+ 5+ years of experience with Databricks, specifically within Azure

+ 5+ years of experience with Python, Scala, .NET, Java or similar languages

+ 7+ years of SQL experience (No-SQL experience is a plus)

+ 5+ years of experience with schema design and dimensional data modeling

+ Excellent product strategic thinking and communication to influence product and cross-functional teams by identifying data opportunities that drive impact

+ Proven ability around managing and communicating data roadmap plans to internal stakeholders

+ Experience designing, building and maintaining data processing systems

+ Deep understanding of software engineering practices (e.g. Agile software development, test driven development, unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, etc.)

+ An entrepreneurial spirit that is flexible, experimental, and resourceful






What’s In It For You:


• People-First Culture – Enriching and caring for people is at the core of who we are; this includes our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategy, and providing our employees with meaningful career growth opportunities, a positive and safe work environment, and affirmation that they are heard, valued, and respected.


• 401K Plan


• Flexible PTO & Generous Paid Holidays


• Educational Assistance


• Variety of Medical plan options – choose the one that is right for you!


• Sustainability – One of Newsweek’s Top 400 of “America’s Most Responsible Companies” for sustainability performance, three years running.




PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:


While performing the responsibilities of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk, talk, and/or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, sit, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. You must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include: close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.




WORK ENVIRONMENT:


Work in both office and manufacturing environment. May occasionally be required to perform job responsibilities outside the typical office setting.


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Watts is committed to equal employment opportunity. We follow a policy of administering all employment decisions and personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy, national origin, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, genetic disposition or carrier status, marital status, military or veteran status, minorities, or any other category protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Consistent with the obligations of state and federal law, Watts will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Any employee who needs a reasonable accommodation should contact Human Resources.

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Watts Water is a global leader of quality water solutions for residential, industrial, municipal, and commercial settings. Our family of brands (https://www.watts.com/our-story/brands) offers some of the most varied product lines in the world, with world-class, water-related solutions focused on:



+ Drainage and Water Reuse


+ HVAC and Hot Water


+ Plumbing and Flow Control


+ Water Quality and Rainwater Harvesting





We are a $1.9 billion global company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with a presence in five (5) continents and twenty-four (24) countries, and an employee population that speaks over eighteen (18) languages. As a people-first company, we prize enriching and caring for all who work here not only through words but through actions. This includes executing our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategy, and providing our employees with meaningful career growth opportunities, a positive and safe work environment, and affirmation that they are heard, valued, and respected.We are proud to be an organization that believes that a safer world is a more sustainable world – a belief that we proudly reflect in each of our technologies and solutions and our environmental and social commitments, such as our partnership with Planet Water Foundation.


Learn more about the Watts way, here (https://www.watts.com/our-story/brands) .




Specialties


Plumbing, HVAC, Water Quality, and Gas




Headquarters


Americas & Corporate Headquarters: North Andover, Massachusetts, USA


Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa (APMEA) Headquarters: Shanghai, China




Company Size


About 5,000 employees




Website


http://www.watts.com/


http://www.wattsindustries.com/


http://www.wattsasia.com/




Industry


Machinery




Founded


1874