Sr Data Engineer

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Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Data Engineer/ Sr. Data Engineer to join the IT Data & Analytics Packaging & Cellulose Delivery Team, supporting the Corrugated business within GP’s Packaging & Cellulose segment. A Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining robust data pipelines, architecture, and systems that enable the collection, transformation, and analysis of manufacturing data. The role requires a blend of technical expertise, domain knowledge, and leadership skills to ensure data availability, integrity, and usability for business intelligence applications.

Our IT Data & Analytics P&C Delivery Team is focused on designing, building, and maintaining solutions that meet the Data and Analytics needs of Georgia-Pacific. This individual will support the Corrugated business within GP’s Packaging & Cellulose segment. Our global team collaborates with GP IT, Koch Technology Center (KTC), and works closely with our business partners to deliver solutions that enable timely, data‑driven decision making.

Atlanta, GA, hybrid onsite, three days per week.

• Develop business intelligence and data warehousing solutions to meet business needs
• Maintain, monitor and troubleshoot existing ETL jobs and Power BI Reports
• Troubleshoot, fix and explain failures/errors in data/ETL
• Adopt best practices in the implementation and execution of support processes
• Maintain and troubleshoot existing BI models to ensure continuous operation
• Collaborate with various IT teams such as infrastructure support, networking, database administrators, delivery and platforms team
• Participate in scheduled Agile ceremonies

• Experience collaborating across teams, mentoring and motivating others while influencing alignment and strong practices
• Experience designing, implementing and maintaining large‑scale ETL and data engineering solutions
• Hands‑on experience building and operating data pipelines, including ingestion, transformation, orchestration and monitoring
• Experience in BI & Semantic Layer Development and Reporting & Visualization
• Experience in Data Warehousing and Dimensional data modeling
• Must have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States without requiring visa transfer or sponsorship

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or a related field
• Experience in the manufacturing domain, particularly with MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems)
• Experience with CI/CD, Git and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Experience with the MSBI stack: SSIS, SSAS, SSRS and/or Power Bi
• Experience with AWS data engineering services such as S3, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, Redshift and IAM
• Experience with AI and automation tools such as Cursor, Power Automate, Windsurf and Github Co Pilot
• Experience in dimensional data modeling, SQL and Python

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength – focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance.

Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E‑Verify.