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We provide the freedom to explore and encourage curiosity and creativity. We gain new insight from diverse thinking, and take risks on new ideas. Here, you can apply your talent in bold ways that matter.Job Description:\nPrincipal Data Engineering - 3M Sumaré\nCollaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World\nChoosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a diversity of people, global locations, technologies, and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with 60,000 other curious, creative 3Mers.\nThe Impact You’ll Make in this Role\n3M is seeking a Principal Data Engineering to join the Corporate Research Digital Platforms (CRDP) to develop scalable Data Systems and Solutions. As part of an agile team, you will enable applications in diverse markets including energy, manufacturing, personal safety, transportation, electronics, and consumer. You will have the opportunity to design and support an Enterprise Data Mesh to empower informatics and digital technologies for users across the globe:\nArchitect, design, and build scalable, efficient, and fault-tolerant data operations.\n\nCollaborate with senior leadership, analysts, engineers, and scientists to implement new mesh domain nodes and data initiatives.\n\nDrive technical architecture for accelerated solution designs, including data integration, modeling, governance, and applications.\n\nExplore and recommend new tools and technologies to optimize the data platform.\n\nImprove and implement data engineering and analytics engineering best practices.\n\nCollaborate with data engineering and domain nodes teams to design physical data models and mappings.\n\nWork with scientists and informaticians to develop advanced digital solutions and promote digital transformation and technologies.\n\nPerform code reviews, manage code performance improvements, and enforce code maintainability standards.\n\nDevelop and maintain scalable data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and distributing data streams.\n\nAdvise and mentor 3M businesses, data scientists, and data consumers on data standards, pipeline development, and data consumption.\n\nProvide technical guidance and mentorship, ensure adherence to best practices, and maintain high software quality through rigorous testing and code reviews.\n\nGuide project planning and execution, manage timelines and resources, and facilitate effective communication between team members and stakeholders.\n\nFoster a positive team environment, assist in recruitment, and provide training opportunities to address skill gaps.\n\nYour Skills and Expertise\nTo set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:\nBachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, or equivalent education/experience.\n\nSolid and Professional experience in data management, data governance, and data warehouse/Lakehouse design and development with proficiency across SQL and NoSQL data management systems.\n\nProficiency in developing/architecting modern distributed cloud architecture and workloads (AWS, Databricks).\n\nExtensive experience and proficiency with Python, Apache Spark, PySpark, and Data Warehouse/Lakehouse (preferably Databricks)\n\nMust have hands-on experience in Python to extract data from APIs, build data pipelines.\n\nExceptional background in data engineering, data systems, and data governance and having comfort working with structured and unstructured data and analyses.\n\nAdvanced English.\n\nAdditional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:\nFamiliarity with data mesh style architecture design principles.\n\nProficiency in building data pipelines to integrate business applications and procedures.\n\nSolid understanding preferred of advanced Databricks concepts like Delta Lake, MLFlow, Advanced Notebook Features, Custom Libraries and Workflows, Unity Catalog, etc.\n\nExperience with AWS cloud computing services and infrastructure developing data lakes and data pipelines leveraging multiple technologies such as AWS S3, AWS Glue, Elastic MapReduce, etc. and awareness of considerations for building scalable, distributed computational systems on Spark.\n\nExperience with stream-processing systems: Amazon Kinesis, Spark, Storm, Kafka, etc.\n\nHands-on experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases.\n\nData quality and validation principles experience, security principles data encryption, access control, authentication & authorization.\n\nDeep experience in definition and implementation of feature engineering.\n\nExperience with Docker containers and Kubernetes, experience developing or interacting with APIs.\n\nExperience in using data orchestration workflows using open-source tools like Temporal.io, Apache Airflow is a plus.\n\nKnowledge of data visualization tools like Dash Apps, Tableau, Power BI, etc.\n\nGood experience with agile development processes and concepts with leveraging project management tools like JIRA and Confluence.\n\nDevise and implement data engineering best practices across teams, optimize and redesign existing data engineering solutions to improve efficiency or stability, as well as monitoring of and consulting with domain node teams.\n\nExcellent interpersonal, collaborative, team building, and communication skills to ensure effective collaborations with matrixed teams.\n\nLocal de trabalho\nEste cargo segue um modelo de trabalho presencial, solicitando que o funcionário trabalhe pelo menos quatro dias por semana na 3M Sumaré.\nApoiando seu Bem-Estar\nA 3M oferece muitos programas para que você viva o melhor de sua vida - física e financeiramente. Para garantir remuneração e benefícios competitivos, a 3M realiza benchmarks regularmente com outras companhias de mesmo porte.\nConverse com Max\nPara obter ajuda na busca por nossas vagas de emprego atuais ou para obter mais informações sobre tudo relacionado à 3M, visite Max, nosso assistente virtual de recrutamento em 3M.com/careers.\nLearn more about 3M’s creative solutions to the world’s problems at www.3M.com or on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @3M.A 3M é um empregador que oferece oportunidades iguais à todos. A 3M não discriminará nenhum candidato baseado em sua raça, cor, idade, religião, gênero, orientação sexual, identidade ou expressão de gênero, nacionalidade ou deficiência.Safety is a core value at 3M. 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