Data Engineer

Job Description

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.

This position is for full-time, onsite employment at the Family Dollar Chesapeake Store Support Center.

Summary of Position (Job Purpose)

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Data & Analytics Delivery Organization at Family Dollar. The company is undergoing a major transformation, and data‑driven insights are playing a critical role in delivering the best possible customer experience.

We are seeking a Data Engineer who combines strong business acumen with hands‑on technical expertise. This role requires someone who can partner with key stakeholders to understand business challenges and translate them into world‑class technical solutions using modern cloud technologies. You will be responsible for designing and building data engineering solutions on our cloud‑based data platform. The role includes contributing to technical design, developing scalable data pipelines, and supporting data engineering workloads.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with stakeholders across product, architecture, development, business intelligence, and executive teams.
• Analyze data from multiple sources and develop solutions to integrate data into the enterprise data ecosystem
• Develop automated pipelines to ingest and process structured and unstructured data using both batch and streaming patterns with cloud‑native toolsets
• Work with diverse datasets and technologies to understand cross‑system correlations, patterns, and data relationships
• Build, schedule, and monitor data pipeline orchestrations
• Implement automation to optimize compute and storage usage across the cloud data platform
• Develop and enhance end‑to‑end monitoring and observability capabilities for cloud‑based data platforms
• Support knowledge sharing, cross‑training, and onboarding activities for team members
• Provide clear and frequent updates to stakeholders on progress, risks, and deliverables
• Participate in daily Scrum standups and contribute to an agile development environment
• Stay current on emerging trends and technologies in Data Warehousing and Analytics—particularly within retail.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3 years of experience in data engineering or data analytics.
• Strong understanding of RDBMS concepts with 3 years of advanced SQL and data analysis experience.
• 2 years of experience with Linux command‑line tools and scripting.
• 3 years of Python development experience with expert‑level proficiency.
• 1 year working with Big Data processing frameworks and tools.
• Hands‑on experience with GCP services such as Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, and BigQuery.
• Strong proficiency in SQL, Python, Linux shell scripting, and data modeling.
• Solid knowledge of data modeling techniques
• Ability to analyze source systems and transform data to meet target data model requirements.
• Experience working with large‑scale data warehouses (10 TB) and high‑volume ETL/ELT workloads (50M records/day).
• Demonstrated experience delivering end‑to‑end technical solutions within enterprise BI/Data Warehousing environments.
• Experience with performance tuning and optimization across the data delivery pipeline—from ingestion through analytics.
• Experience migrating data of various formats (JSON, delimited files, APIs, real‑time feeds) into Google BigQuery is strongly preferred.
• Experience working in a Scrum/Agile environment and tools such as Jira.
• Nice to have:
• Experience working with a data science workbench or ML development environment.
• Familiarity with data engineering aspects of machine learning pipelines (e.g., data prep, splitting, feature engineering, scoring)

“Projected Salary Range: $95,000 - $106,500”.

This is not to be considered a complete list of job duties, as they may be amended or added to as needed.

Family Dollar is an equal opportunity employer and committed to recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds, and make all employment decisions without regard to any protected status. We are committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.