Data Engineer

Job Summary

Western Midstream is seeking an early career data engineer to join our new Data Center of Excellence team in The Woodlands, TX. As a data engineer, you will be responsible for deploying and maintaining innovative solutions utilizing best in class platforms, cloud services, and opensource technologies. You will use your skills in data and development to improve and streamline our operations and help our users succeed.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and manage data pipelines to ingest, transform, and distribute data between on-premises and cloud destinations
• Utilize technologies from Aveva PI, Qlik, OpenText, SAP Datasphere, and Azure Cloud Services, including Fabric, Data Factory, Synapse, and more to enable custom applications and BI efforts
• Employ programming languages like C#, Java, or Python for automation and API integrations tasks
• Work closely with developers and engineers to provide automation and data necessary for custom applications, visualizations, and analytic models
• Conduct thorough functional testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning to ensure the reliability and efficiency of developed solutions
• Integrate and maintain new data management technologies, processes, and monitoring tools
  
  

Requirements:

• 1-2 years of experience as Data Engineer or Developer (Python preferred)
• Basic of Azure cloud services, relational database design principles, performance tuning, and optimization
• Exhibit analytic skills related to working with both structured and unstructured datasets.
• Have proficiency in SQL, ETL/ELT processes/tooling and data modeling
• Must have excellent communication skills with the ability to interact with developers supporting requirements gathering.
  
  

Education:

Bachelor's Degree in Information Science, Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Travel Requirements:

Travel will be required up to 5%.

Work Schedule:

This position will work 9 hours Monday – Thursday and 4 hours on Friday. The position will require Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday in The Woodlands office.