Staff Data Engineer

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits seeks a Staff Data Engineer to design and optimize scalable data platforms supporting wholesale distribution, sales, and supply chain analytics. You will own end-to-end data pipelines, from ingestion and modeling to performance tuning and governance across cloud data warehouses. Partner with analytics, IT, and business stakeholders to deliver trusted datasets, real-time reporting, and advanced analytics capabilities. Mentor other engineers, champion best practices, and help shape a people-first, high-performing data culture in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure data pipelines and integrations across enterprise systems

• Develop and optimize cloud-based data warehouses, models, and schemas to support analytics and reporting

• Implement data quality checks, monitoring, and governance to ensure reliable, trusted datasets

• Collaborate with analytics, IT, and business teams to translate requirements into robust data solutions

• Mentor and guide other data engineers, promoting best practices, standards, and code reviews

• Support advanced analytics, BI, and data science initiatives with well-structured, performant data

• Troubleshoot and resolve data issues, performance bottlenecks, and pipeline failures in a timely manner Required Skills

• Data pipeline design and development

• SQL and performance tuning

• Cloud data warehousing (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, Big

• Query)

• ETL/ELT tools (e.g., dbt, Airflow, Informatica)

• Data modeling (star, snowflake, normalized models)

• Python or Scala programming

• Data governance and data quality frameworks

• Batch and streaming data processing

• Version control and CI/CD for data projects

• BI/reporting integration and data serving