Senior Data Engineer (Remote)

Kohl's is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the development of high-quality applications that enhance their retail offerings. This role involves collaborating with various teams to implement innovative solutions, manage cloud-based data ecosystems, and ensure compliance with data standards.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of high-quality applications that are robust, observable and measurable using extreme programming (XP) practices and a user-centric approach
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle in collaboration with designers, product managers, and other engineers on the product team
• Leverage critical thinking, experimentation, data, and industry best practices to implement desired business outcomes
• Facilitate group discussions and team ceremonies and develop a shared context
• Give and receive feedback that’s empathetic, actionable and specific
• Practice emergent architecture with sane defaults and build software that is easy to use and easy to modify
• Establish and lead product engineering and software standards
• Ideate a new product from a user perspective, starting with one or more problem spaces and ending with a stack-ranked list of feasible solutions to test
• Research and stay up to date on tech market trends and practices
• Lead technical initiatives not only on the team but also across the department
• Develop, automate, and maintain batch and streaming ETL pipelines using Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, Python, and Scala
• Build and manage cloud-based data ecosystems on GCP (BigQuery, Bigtable, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, IAM, VPC)
• Design and optimize SQL and NoSQL data models for data lakes and warehouses (BigQuery, MongoDB, Snowflake)
• Write complex SQL queries for advanced data transformation, aggregation, and analytics optimization within BigQuery or equivalent platforms
• Apply modern Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies for big data pipelines, ensuring test automation across Airflow workflows, Spark jobs, and transformation logic
• Apply data mesh and data-as-a-product principles to enable reusable and domain-driven datasets
• Implement real time ingestion with Kafka Connect and process streaming data using Spark Streaming, Apache Flink, or similar technologies
• Optimize data performance, scalability, and cost efficiency across GCP components
• Ensure compliance with PCI and PII data with standards such as GDPR, PCI DSS, SOX, and CCPA
• Integrate GenAI tools such as OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic LLMs for intelligent data quality and analytics enhancement
• Collaborate with stakeholders, data scientists, and full stack engineers to deliver trusted, documented, and reusable data products

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience in software development
• Understanding of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database, schemas and testing strategies
• In-depth knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment and test-driven development
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field
• Experience with large-scale application troubleshooting and performance tuning
• Exposure working with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• Familiarity and experience with XP (Extreme Programming)