Engineer II - Data Platform and Engineering

Best Buy11 months ago
Minneapolis, MN, United States
Hybrid
Full-time
Junior Level (1-3 years)

Job Description

Position Overview

The Data Platform and Engineering team is seeking an innovative Engineer II to drive digital evolution at Best Buy. In this role, you will engineer and operate both existing and future integration and dataflow platforms, delivering an enterprise data platform and scalable, cloud‐native services for evolving decision intelligence solutions. This is a hybrid role requiring onsite presence at our Richfield, MN location as well as virtual work, so you must be located within a drivable distance to our office.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop data pipelines in Google Cloud Platform utilizing Big Query, Composer, Dataflow, and Cloud Run.
  • Build business acumen to design and plan business-driven features of data assets and layers.
  • Participate in and lead production support situations ensuring data quality, consistency, and reliability.
  • Create and improve reusable internal libraries and tools for consistent and reliable delivery.

Required Qualifications

  • 2+ years of relevant data acquisition and development experience with a bachelor’s degree, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 1+ years of experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) including Big Query, Composer, Dataflow, and/or Cloud Run.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 3+ years of relevant professional experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience in software development, strong critical reasoning skills, and the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
  • 3+ years of experience with tools such as Informatica, Message Broker, Apache Nifi, Google Dataflow, Google Cloud Function, or similar.
  • 1+ years of development experience with languages like Python, SQL, and/or Java.
  • Experience working with marketing/advertising related data and Teradata.
  • Excellent communication skills, particularly in distributed team settings.

Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive pay
  • Generous employee discount
  • Physical and mental well-being support

Required Skills

Composer
Dataflow
Cloud Run
Python
Google Cloud Platform
SQL
Java
Big Query