Sr. Staff Data Engineer (Go / Golang / Python)

Sr. Staff Data Engineer (Go / Golang / Python)

As a Senior Staff Data Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and coordinating technical strategies across key business organizations. You will leverage your mastery in both technical and domain areas to collaborate with Staff Engineers, Engineering Managers, and senior leaders in setting long-term strategic goals. Your innovative solutions will continue to build on Bayer Crop Science's market advantage, ensuring our technical strategies support global business leads effectively.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Lead and participate in design sessions with enterprise and hub data stewards, engineering teams, data scientists, product managers, business, and IT stakeholders, resulting in documentation for data processing, storage, and delivery solutions;
• Understand business capability needs and processes as they relate to IT solutions through partnering with Product Managers and business and functional IT stakeholders, applying this knowledge to influence business goals;
• Initiate and lead evaluations of new technologies, such as Domino or Redshift, or new languages like Go or React, including performing POCs and presenting results to provide technical recommendations;
• Help the team establish and improve processes and methodologies, such as SCRUM or Kanban, and / or lead piloting new ones;
• Implement data solutions according to design documentation using a variety of tools and programming languages, like Kafka, SQL, and non-SQL databases, Scala, Go, etc., following the team's established processes and methodologies;
• Facilitate and participate in code reviews, retrospectives, functional and integration testing, and other team activities focused on improving the quality of delivery;
• Provide reliable estimates for large-scale projects;
• Lead collaboration with business partners, product owners, other engineers, and data stewards within the team and across data, analytics, and product teams on planning and aligning roadmaps, delivery dates, and integration efforts;
• Coach and mentor junior and aspiring data engineers on the team and across the data and engineering communities;
• Present on various technical topics to internal and external audiences, for example, at national and international technical conferences;
• Facilitate various cross-team and department efforts, like scrum of scrums and release planning, focused on large-scale roadmap alignments, sharing information, solving a broad variety of problems, or improving processes;
• Discuss work, provide details, and influence the right level of audience such as senior leadership, business partners, data scientists, and engineering teams;
• Create and maintain design and code documentation in GitHub, Haystack, SharePoint, and / or other repositories used by the team.
• The preferred location for this role is Creve Coeur, MO, however, Residence-Based candidates in the US will also be considered depending on needs of the business and qualifications.
• Visa sponsorship may be offered for this role.

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following :

Required Qualifications :

High School diploma with at least 14 years of relevant professional software engineering experience; OR

Authoring high-quality Golang, Go, and or Python code to deliver new features, evolve existing services, and resolve defects;

Data architecture and modeling concepts and paradigms;

Relational databases and declarative query languages such as SQL (e.g., Oracle, Postgres, etc.);

Preferred Qualifications

Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer / Disabled / Veterans. We are committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s) using the contact information below.

Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $136929.60 - 205394.40. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant). Other benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.

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