Data Engineer

About Houston

ExxonMobil’s state-of-the-art campus north of Houston serves as home to its Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses and their associated service groups. The facility opened in 2014 and accommodates more than 10,000 employees and visitors.
 

By bringing many global functional groups together, the campus provides employees with the tools and capabilities needed today, and in the future, to achieve business objectives and accelerate the discovery of new resources, technologies and products. It was designed to foster improved collaboration, creativity and innovation and enhance the company’s ability to attract, develop and retain the top talent in the industry.
 

The campus is located in Spring, Texas, on 385 wooded acres immediately to the west of Interstate Highway 45 (I-45), at the intersection of I-45 and the Hardy Toll Road, approximately 25 miles from the cultural vibrancy of downtown Houston.
 

The campus was constructed to the highest standards of energy efficiency and environmental stewardship. Its design incorporates extensive research into best practices in building and workplace design through extensive benchmarking of the world’s top academic, research, and corporate facilities.
 

Learn more about what we do in Houston here.
 

What role you will play in our team

• This data engineer position will report to the Automation & Spatial Solutions group within the Midland Basin Development Team. Automation & Spatial Solutions is responsible for department wide spatial data, automation & integration efforts, and data engineering. Areas of focus will include research and development of data pipelines, analytics, data visualization, automation, data processing, and data management, concentrating on developing sustainable products/platforms. 
• This role will report to the Spring, TX campus. 
   

What you will do

• Design, develop, and institute automated workflows utilizing various technologies (Python, GIS, SQL, Spotfire, Alteryx, MS Power Platform and more) to minimize human error, standardize data, and apply data management best practices with a focus on data integrity and governance
• Develop and optimize existing and new expansion of the systems in place
• Design, develop, test, document, deploy, monitor, and support data pipelines
• Create analytical dashboards utilizing Business Intelligence software such as Spotfire, Experience Builder, and/or PowerBI
• Work with domain experts, data scientists, engineers to understand needs, constraints, and limitations
• Develop ETL processes and maintain application integrations across multiple systems and data sources
• Prepare technical data for interpretation, conduct analyses and routine computer processing of the data, and help create final displays of the results often for formal presentations
• Willingness to learn, experiment, try new things, fail, and grow!

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Data Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Geoscience, Analytics. 
• Must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems, and products. 
• Driven by the prospect of optimizing or even re-designing company’s data architecture to support the next generation of products and data initiatives
• Functional in SQL with experience in querying relational databases, views, and normalized schemas
• Functional in programming (Python-preferred) with skills in algorithms, clean code, environment management
• Understanding and utilization of enterprise ETL tools; ex: Alteryx, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory
• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management.
• A successful history of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to identify opportunities for improvement / automation and development of existing workflows and processes.

Preferred Qualifications/ Experience

• Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ pipelines, architectures, and data sets.
• Knowledge of Angular, Javascript, C#, Java programming languages 
• Knowledge of Alteryx Designer, Alteryx Server
• Knowledge of cloud technologies: Azure database, AWS, GCP
• Expertise in Databricks & Snowflake
• Expertise in spatial automation & GIS platforms.
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.
• Oil & Gas industry experience.

Your benefits

An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.

We offer you: 

• Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life. 
• Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match. 
• Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as “Flex your Day”, providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans. 
• Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing. 
• Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you. 
• Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.
   

More information on our Company’s benefits can be found at www.exxonmobilfamily.com.

Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.

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