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We help The Kroger Co., consumer packaged goods companies, agencies, publishers and affiliates create more personalized and valuable experiences for shoppers across the path to purchase.\nPowered by cutting-edge science, we utilize first-party retail data from more than 62 million U.S. households sourced through the Kroger Plus loyalty card program to fuel a more customer-centric journey using 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing and our retail media advertising solution, Kroger Precision Marketing.\nJoin us at 84.51°!\n__________________________________________________________\n\nAs a Lead Data Engineer, you will have the opportunity to design and build software products and features for both internal and external clients. We are a team of innovators, continuously exploring new technologies that ensure 84.51° remains on the forefront of application development. In this position, you will be utilizing Python, SQL, Azure Cloud Services, Databricks and Snowflake.\nAs part of the Identity & Privacy engineering team, you will be working in a new space that will be using audience and insights data in order to facilitate identity resolution for offsite activations in a cookie-less future and determining when we can contact customers. Identity capabilities also includes understanding our customers with every touchpoint in-store and online, where profiling and behavioral insights are maintained in order to inform our business.\nResponsibilities\nTake ownership of stories and drive them to completion through all phases of the entire 84.51° SDLC. This includes external facing and internal applications as well as process improvement activities such as:\nDesign and develop Python & SQL based data pipeline solutions\nPerform unit and integration testing\nCreate quality checks for ingested and post processed data\nEnsure alerting and monitoring of automated pipeline solutions\nProvide mentoring to junior team members\nParticipate in retrospective reviews\nParticipate in the estimation process for new work and releases\nMaintain and enhance existing applications\nBring new perspectives to problems\nBe driven to improve yourself and the way things are done\nRequirements\nBachelor's degree (Master's degree desired) typically in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, Business Analytics or another technically strong program.\nUnderstanding of Agile Principles (Scrum)\n5+ years of proven professional Python and SQL development experience\nProficient with distributed data processing (PySpark, Snowpark)\nProficient with automated testing (PyTest, etc…)\nProficient with GitHub\nExperience using Python frameworks\nExperience with Cloud Technologies & Services (Azure preferred, GCP, AWS)\nExperience with dependency management (Conda, venv, etc)\nExperience with performance tuning enterprise applications\nExperience with debugging enterprise applications\nExperience with RESTful APIs\nUnderstanding of CI/CD\nUnderstanding of Object Oriented Principles\nUnderstanding SOLID principles\nPreferred Skills\nPython & SQL Development\nDistributed Data Processing (PySpark, Snowpark)\nCI/CD practices\nAutomated data pipeline orchestration\nData observability – Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting (Datadog)\nAzure Cloud infrastructure development\nSnowflake\nDatabricks\nAPI development\nData quality checks\nCloud Technologies\n\nIMPORTANT INFO\n\nThis is a Hybrid position. 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In this position, you will be utilizing Python, SQL, Azure Cloud Services, Databricks and Snowflake.\nAs part of the Identity & Privacy engineering team, you will be working in a new space that will be using audience and insights data in order to facilitate identity resolution for offsite activations in a cookie-less future and determining when we can contact customers. Identity capabilities also includes understanding our customers with every touchpoint in-store and online, where profiling and behavioral insights are maintained in order to inform our business.\nResponsibilities\nTake ownership of stories and drive them to completion through all phases of the entire 84.51° SDLC. 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