Associate Data Engineer

Position Summary

The Associate Data Engineer will use their inquisitiveness, tenacity, and willingness to learn, to help develop the GFS Data Platform consisting of the data lake, analytics, enterprise data warehouse, and visualization tools. They need to have the ability to follow the team's technical direction by writing high‑quality code and following modern design principles. They will build data solutions in an agile and incremental manner, and will be an active participant in all team ceremonies.

They must understand complex architecture and engineering designs, apply appropriate technology to solve business problems, and build relationships with peers on their team.

• Follow the technical strategy and direction for the Data Platform environment at GFS, including tools, techniques, and processes.
• Help design and build technology solutions across multiple initiatives at the same time.
• Collaborate with others on the team to rapidly prototype and implement technical architectures to deliver insightful solutions.
• Understand the business analytics problems the company faces and help build solutions that solve them.
• Work on a high‑performing team focused on results and relationships.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm.
• Hybrid schedule, 4 days in office in Wyoming, MI or Atlanta, GA with 1 day remote.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Advanced Analytics, Statistics, or a related field required.
• 1–3 years of experience in technical design, development, and delivery of data engineering technical solutions strongly preferred.
• Experience writing software at a large enterprise.
• Experienced in modern data movement technologies (e.g., serverless, real‑time, as‑needed computing, low‑latency data movement, high‑volume data management, etc.).
• Experience working with Dev Ops processes to deliver code quickly with a high degree of confidence and quality.
• Experience in understanding and developing complex data models.
• Business influence – experience empathizing with users and adjusting the technical solution to solve their problems.
• Experience working with data visualization tools (Microstrategy, PowerBI, Looker, Tableau, etc.).
• Preferred languages include but are not limited to Python, Terraform, and Java.
• Experience with one or many cloud computing providers (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure) preferred.
• Preferred tool experience includes but is not limited to Apache Airflow, Kafka, Attunity, databases, queuing, and Microstrategy.
• Knowledge of data governance, expectations, and leading practices preferred.
• Experience evaluating alternate solutions to a technical problem while considering the cost and benefit preferred.

Equal Employment Opportunity is a matter of policy at Gordon Food Service, Inc. and we are committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity.

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All Gordon Food Service locations are tobacco‑free.

Gordon Food Service is a drug‑free workplace and conducts pre‑employment drug tests.