Big Data Software Engineer (Heilman)

Position Information

The North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (NDAES) is looking for an experienced data and software engineer to join the NDAES Big Data Pipeline Team. Created on June 15, 2016, the Big Data Pipeline Team started as a service team to support the ND Agricultural Experiment Station breeding programs. Today the team is growing and expanding its support the data needs of other NDAES units on the NDSU campus and Research Extension Centers (RECs) located across the state. The data and software engineer will take a lead role in the development of a solid infrastructure for data management and its use in research and business-essential analytics, as well as in the development of tools for reporting metrics to stakeholders. The incumbent will be responsible for the development, integrity, and maintenance of our NDAES data infrastructure and enable proper interconnection across databases and applications developed internally within and across research teams. Working closely with technical testing and research groups will be imperative for developing useful analytical applications.

This is a full-time position that will have significant impact on agricultural research at NDSU and, ultimately, agricultural across the State of North Dakota.

Essential Functions:

• Apply deep understanding of traditional data warehousing, data structures, and tools to arrange data into optimal data structures that handle data from different sources, functions, and processes.
• Work with third-party companies/vendors, and contractors to implement, configure, and maintain solutions and systems.
• Design and maintain data storage systems and access tools.
• Build, deploy, and maintaining software applications that support the research organizations across the NDAES.
• Contribute to the development of new applications, algorithms, and capabilities that will enable reaching research goals.
• Design, develop, validate, deploy, and support analytical solutions across the NDAES research goals.
• Programming and use of various libraries for task automation, calling APIs, preparing, and transforming data for analysis and digital transformations.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, information science, engineering, mathematics, or related technical discipline.
• 3+ years of industry/academic experience in software development, data engineering, or related field.
• Extensive knowledge of programming and coding languages such as C#, Java, Python, R, SQL, among others.
• Experienced in analysis, design, coding, development, testing, and maintenance of large data warehouse systems, T-SQL, report creation, MLOps, and handling various heterogeneous source systems.
• Experience with APIs used for data integration.
• An understanding of a wide range of data systems and platforms, such as data warehouses and data lakes, as well as relational databases.
• Experience building and operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, data ingestion, landing zone, monitoring, organization, and processing of large data sets.
• Experience with data transformation, pipeline monitoring/quality/backfill, and big data technologies
• Experience with version control and source code control systems.
• Must be able to know the basics of deploying machine learning algorithms.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in written and oral communication in English.
• Working well in a diverse team environment with multiple stakeholders across the NDAES system

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with agricultural/biological organisms' datasets, experimental designs, and mixed model analyses.
• Experience with cloud computing systems, specifically cloud data pipeline development and modern data warehouse architectures.
• Experience with big data processing systems such as Hadoop, Spark, or Databricks.
• Experience designing and implementing analytical data models.Experience with NoSQL databases.

Advertised Salary: $75,000+/year

Screening will begin: July 1, 2022

Applicant Materials Required:

Applicants must submit:

• Cover letter discussing how the stated qualifications are met
• Detailed curriculum vitae
• Contact information (i.e., names, phone numbers, institutional addresses, and email addresses) of three current references from the most recent positions held.

Benefits:

NDSU offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes single or family health insurance coverage with premiums paid for by the university - with an effective date for new employees the first of the month following date of hire. Other benefits include, wellness benefits, basic life insurance, retirement plan, tuition waiver, annual leave, EAP, sick leave and holiday pay. Optional benefits include supplemental life, dental, vision, long-term care insurance, flexible spending account, and supplemental retirement plans.

No Smoking Notice :

As an employer, the State of North Dakota prohibits smoking in all places of state employment in accordance with N.D.C.C. § 23-12-10.

EO/AA Statement:

North Dakota State University is an Equal Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, gender expression/identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin, participation in lawful off-campus activity, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, public assistance status, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, spousal relationship to current employee, or veteran status, as applicable.

Veteran's Preference Notice:

This position is subject to North Dakota Veteran's Preference requirements.

Reasonable Accommodation Information

North Dakota State University is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education, and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation in the application process, please contact Human Resources at 701-231-8961 or ndsu.hr@ndsu.edu .

About Us

North Dakota State University is distinctive as a student focused, land-grant, research university. Our main campus is located in Fargo, ND with Extension Service and Research Experiment Station locations across the entire state. NDSU has been listed in the Top 100 public research universities in the United States for research and development in agricultural sciences, psychology and social sciences, based on reported research expenditures.

NDSU is an exciting place to work offering a stimulating and diverse environment richly populated with people pursuing life-long learning and personal growth. Employees often attend on-campus cultural events, lectures, athletic events and enjoy walks through our beautiful campus.

NDSU employs over 6000 full-time and part-time employees across the state, making it the second largest employer in the community. NDSU is the best college in ND, according to Money Magazine (September 2018). NDSU was named a 2019 Best Value College by Forbes. Fargo made Livability.com's top 10 list of cities to find a job and ranked at #11 for best places to live overall.

NDSU offers a wide array of professional opportunities including faculty, executive, managerial, professional, technical, paraprofessional, office support, servers and crafts/trades. Like a small city, NDSU operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Full time employees are offered a superb benefit package to include 100% company paid health insurance premiums and tuition assistance for employees and immediate family members. All of us at NDSU play an important role in serving our students and public constituencies. We encourage motivated and talented team members that thrive in a higher-ed environment to join our university!

Mission

We provide transformational education, create knowledge through innovative research, and share knowledge through community engagement that meets the needs of North Dakota and the world.