Job Description

Overview:

At Macys, were moving fastwere at top speed to become Americas premiere retailer. Macys Technology strives to set the pace by providing seamless and compelling shopping experiences for our Macys and Bloomingdales customers. Macys Technology is creating innovative technology solutions to support these experiences and define the future of retailing.

The Senior Software Engineer position reports to the Manager, Enterprise Data Engineering, and is responsible for the development and support of applications on a modern data lake, leveraging his/her expertise and knowledge of multiple systems/customer areas to help build a robust, scalable and reliable big data platform.

At Macys, data sits in the center of our business, providing insights into the effectiveness of our physical and digital product & features and customer experience. We believe data brings everything together and it is the only way we make decisions. Macys Enterprise Data, BI & Reporting is a team constantly striving to create an amazing experience for our customers and internal teams. We regard culture and trust highly and believe you will have positive influence in your own way.

If you're passionate about building highly scalable data & analytics models and architecture in the cloud, and you are motivated to make an impact in creating robust and scalable data models used by every team, come join us. You will help shape the vision and architecture of Macys next generation of enterprise data landscape, making it easy for reporting, analytics, data scientist and other data consumer to build data-driven products, features and insights. Youll be responsible for developing a reliable data & analytics architecture that scales with the company's incredible growth. You will be a part of an experienced engineering team and work with passionate leaders on challenging data space.

Essential Functions:

* Perform coding/configuration, testing, implementation and documentation on solutions developed including design specifications.

* Perform applications programming activities, to include code, test, debug, document, maintain, and modify applications programs.

* Ability to extract, analyze, and report the data.

* Strong attention to detail when identifying data relationships, trends, and anomalies.

* Thinking through long-term impacts of key design decisions and handling failure scenarios.

* Building self-service platforms to power Macys cross functional teams and drive the whole organization to be data-driven. Serve data models as a product to entire organization.

* Maintain awareness of industry trends and evaluate applicability of new software tools to platform development.

* Serve as a coach and mentor to more junior developers to include delegating and managing tasks, as appropriate.

* Consistently demonstrate regular, dependable attendance and punctuality.

* Commit to overall deliverables with customers and/or management.

* Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Education/Experience:

* Bachelors Degree and 5+ years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

* 5+ years hands-on experience with SQL like relational data stores (For example: Oracle, Hive or similar), NoSQL data stores (Cassandra, Elasticsearch or similar).

* 2+ years deep hands-on skills in Big Data stack, namely GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow, Composer, Pub/Sub), EMS, Kafka, Flume, Hadoop, Apache open source frameworks.

* Experience in coding applications using Java or Python.

* Experience building scalable web services, ESB and event/stream processing.

* Good understanding of data engineering, ingestion and processing of data within Big Data ecosystems and performing complex query analysis and analytics on the data.

* Deep understanding of technology including (but not limited to) Hadoop (Flume, HDFS, Hive, HBase, YARN etc), Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Tomcat, stream processing, RDBMS, NoSQL databases, and so on.

* Expert understanding of all application development processes including software development methodology; ability to serve as a resource to others.

* Expert in existing applications supporting the business area. Able to serve as a key resource to ensure the system is performing up to requirements.

* Possesses understanding of multiple systems/customer areas, gained through previous experience in different areas and leverages that knowledge to support current customer(s).

* Works independently and provides guidance within technical area, applying in-depth knowledge of multiple technologies, as appropriate.

* Understands architectural issues, and factors them into decisions and recommendations.

* Provides technical leadership in areas of specialization.

Communication Skills:

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

* Ability to read, write, and interpret complex technical documents.

Reasoning Ability:

* Very strong analysis/troubleshooting skills, strong partnering/relationship building skills.

* Ability to consider options and make business decisions (e.g. selection of tools/methodologies for projects).

Physical Demands:

* This position involves regular ambulating, sitting, hearing, and talking.

* May occasionally involve stooping, kneeling, or crouching.

* May involve close vision, color vision, depth perception, and focus adjustment.

* Involve use of hands and fingers for typing on keyboard and using a mouse.

* May be a need to move or lift items under 10 pounds.

Work Hours:

* Ability to work a flexible schedule based on department and company needs.

This job overview is not all inclusive. In addition, Macys, Inc. reserves the right to amend this job overview at any time. Macys is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. Macys, Inc. including Macys and Bloomingdales will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal convictions in a manner consistent with SFPC Art. 49 and LA MC ch.XVIII Art. 9.