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Candidates must reside within commuting distance of this office.\nAbout Us\nCDK Global is a leading provider of cloud-based software to dealerships and Original Equipment Manufacturers (“OEMs”) across automotive and related industries. The Company’s cloud-based, software as a service (“SaaS”) platform enables dealerships to manage their end-to-end business operations including the acquisition, sale, financing, insuring, repair, and maintenance of vehicles. By automating and streamlining critical workflows, the integrated platform of modern solutions enables dealers to sell and service more vehicles by creating simple and convenient experiences for customers and improves their financial and operational performance.\nPosition Summary\nA Sr. Software Engineer is a key contributor on complex projects and initiatives. The role will lead functional teams or projects with risks and/or complexity. In this role, the individual works independently with guidance only in complex situations. The role has an impact on a range of customer, operational, project or service objectives. In this role, the individual develops new concepts, methods and techniques. The role has a sizeable impact on the functional/business unit. Responsible to drive timely/quality delivery against business goals, while evangelizing and improving engineering excellence\nResponsibilities & Essential Functions\nDesign, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable ELT/ETL data pipelines using Python, Apache Spark, Snowflake, Databricks, and AWS services.\nBuild and optimize data processing workflows to support enterprise analytics and data products.\nLoad, transform, and process structured and semi-structured data in formats including JSON, Parquet, Avro, CSV, and other industry-standard formats.\nDevelop robust data integration solutions from multiple internal and external source systems.\nUtilize AI-Assisted Development (AIAD) tools and practices to improve software development productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and delivery efficiency.\nLeverage AI-powered development capabilities to accelerate data pipeline development, troubleshooting, code reviews, and optimization activities while adhering to enterprise engineering standards.\nImplement data quality, monitoring, audit, reconciliation, and observability processes across data pipelines.\nOptimize Snowflake data models, storage, compute utilization, and query performance.\nCollaborate with Data Scientists, Analysts, Architects, Product Owners, and Business Stakeholders to deliver data solutions aligned with business goals.\nDevelop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation for data engineering workloads.\nMentor junior engineers and contribute to data engineering standards, best practices, and governance initiatives.\nParticipate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and production support activities.\nParticipates in on-call rotations and emergency response activities to support production systems and maintain platform reliability.\nFollow all CDK Global policies and procedures.\nComplete all mandatory assigned compliance tasks and acknowledgements\nMeet or exceed all performance expectations.\nRequired Job Skills & Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field with at least 4 years of experience; OR in lieu of bachelor’s degree at least 12 years of related experience \nStrong experience with Snowflake architecture, development, performance tuning, and administration.\nStrong experience with Databricks for data processing and pipeline development. Experience working with AWS cloud services.\nExperience developing data pipelines for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data sources.\nExpertise in Spark DataFrames, Spark SQL, and distributed computing concepts.\nStrong SQL development and query optimization skills.\nExperience with Git-based source control and CI/CD practices.\nStrong troubleshooting, performance tuning, and problem-solving skills.\nSelf- motivated and Collaborative problem-solving ability \nStrong verbal and written communication skills along with prioritization of duties \nAbility to work independently/in a team environment \nProficiency with Microsoft Office \nBase Compensation: $120,000 - $150,000\nCDK Global is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Compensation packages are based on several factors, including but not limited to skills, experience, certifications, and work location. The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.We offer Medical, dental, and vision benefits in addition to:\nPaid Time Off (PTO)\n\n401K Matching Program\n\nTuition Reimbursement\n\nAt CDK, we believe inclusion and diversity are essential in inspiring meaningful connections to our people, customers and communities. We are open, curious and encourage different views, so that everyone can be their best selves and make an impact.\nCDK is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating an inclusive workforce where everyone is valued. 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