eCommerce Data Engineer

Job Description

Established in 1806 as a small soap and candle business in New York City, Colgate-Palmolive is now a truly global company with products sold in over 200 countries and territories under such internationally recognized brand names as Colgate, Palmolive, Softsoap, Irish Spring, Protex, Sorriso, Kolynos, elmex, Tom's of Maine, Sanex, Ajax, Axion, Soupline, Haci Sakir, Suavitel, PCA SKIN, EltaMD, Filorga and Hello as well as Hill's Science Diet and Hill's Prescription Diet.

Colgate-Palmolive is a leading consumer products company that serves hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide with brands and products across four core businesses – Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition. We are committed to offering products that make lives healthier and more enjoyable, and programs that enrich communities around the world.

Every day millions of people trust our products to care for themselves and the ones they love. Our goal is to use our technology to create products that will continue to improve the quality of life for our consumers wherever they live.

A career at Colgate-Palmolive is an excellent opportunity if you seek a global experience, constant challenge, and development opportunities in an environment that respects work/life effectiveness.

Information at a Glance

Job Title: eCommerce Data Engineer

Travel Required: No Travel

Posting Start Date: 6/4/20

Temporarily Remote

No Relocation Assistance Offered
# 84387 - Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

We are excited to invite applications for the position of Data Engineer within our eCommerce applications team. Operating within the world’s leading Oral Care Company, we have a number of exciting projects in B2B, B2C and Marketplace applications. We are looking for a highly motivated data engineer to join our team to help us win in eCommerce.

This role will involve planning, design, development and maintenance of our data repositories, pipeline, and analytical solutions. The ideal candidate is self driven and looking to build high quality tools to provide actionable insights to our business partners to facilitate data-driven decision making. The candidate needs to be a self-starter - eager to learn new technologies, extract insights and value from data and how to leverage technology to deliver those insights while protecting user data through compliance with privacy standards & regulations and implementation of appropriate security safeguards.

Main Responsibilities:
Build and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture
Assemble large, sophisticated data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
Build the infrastructure required for efficient extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources
Assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
Build data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.
Work with data and analytics specialists to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or higher degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or related work experience.
5+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role
SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets.
Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and find opportunities for improvement.
Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.
A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.
Experience supporting and working with multi-functional teams in a dynamic environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

1+ year of experience leading Analytics projects and developing plans

They should also have experience using the following software/tools:

Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases: MongoDB, Neo4j, etc
Experience with cloud services: GCP, AWS, etc
Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, etc.
Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
Experience with Data Flow, Data Pipeline and workflow management tools: Cloud Composer, Airflow, Luigi, etc.
Experience with visualization tools: Google Data Studio, Tableau, Qlikview, etc.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.

Are you interested in working for Colgate-Palmolive? You can apply online and attach all relevant documents such as a cover letter and resume or CV. Applications received by e-mail are not considered in the selection process. Become part of our team. We look forward to your application.

Colgate-Palmolive is a leading global consumer products company, tightly focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition. Colgate sells its products in over 200 countries and territories around the world under such internationally recognized brand names as Colgate, Palmolive, elmex, Tom’s of Maine, Sorriso, Speed Stick, Lady Speed Stick, Softsoap, Irish Spring, Protex, Sanex, Elta MD, PCA Skin, Ajax, Axion, Fabuloso, Soupline and Suavitel, as well as Hill’s Science Diet and Hill’s Prescription Diet.

For more information about Colgate’s global business, visit the Company’s web site at http://www.colgatepalmolive.com. To learn more about Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures® oral health education program, please visit http://www.colgatebsbf.com. To learn more about Hill's and the Hill’s Food, Shelter & Love program please visit http://www.hillspet.com. To learn more about Tom’s of Maine please visit http://www.tomsofmaine.com.

Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please contact Application_Accommodation@colpal.com with the subject "Accommodation Request" should you require accommodation.