Sr. Data Engineer, AI Data Engineering

Sr. Data Engineer, AI Data Engineering

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Career Area Technology, Digital and Data

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Job Summary As a Senior Data Engineer on the Helios Data Engineering team, you will be responsible for developing Python data pipelines that build business data objects used to support applications.

• Responsibilities of the incumbents are across functional lines with individuals assigned in new program development.
• Competent to perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the more complex aspects of systems work.
• Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution.
• Interpreting design requirements for engineering implementation.
• Building and deploying CICD pipelines.
• Implementing source to target mapping as pipeline code.
• Responsibility for Unit and Integration testing.
• Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
• Identifies and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.
• Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time to time.

• Decision Making and Critical Thinking:
  Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Effective Communications:
  Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
• Software Development:
  Extensive knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.
• Software Development Life Cycle:
  Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.
• Software Product Design/Architecture:
  Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.
• Software Product Technical Knowledge:
  Knowledge of technical aspects of a software products; ability to design, configure and integrate technical aspects of software products.
• Software Product Testing:
  Extensive knowledge of software product testing; ability to design, plan, and execute testing strategies and tactics to ensure software product quality and adherence to stated requirements.

• Extensive software development experience and solid working knowledge of OOP principles.
• Knowledge and experience with Embedding Models and Concepts for effectively chunking data.
• Extensive experience working with Git version control.
• Exceptional communication skills with experience working on a cross-functional teams.
• Extensive experience deploying software using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Azure Devops etc.
• Extensive experience in designing and developing software applications in Python.
• Experience with AWS components such as Bedrock, Lambda, Dynamo, Fargate, S3, Sagemaker, IAM and RDS.
• Experience with relational and/or noSQL databases such as Postgre
  
  SQL, Dynamo
  
  DB, Mongo
  
  DB, Oracle, etc.
• Knowledge and experience with AI technologies such as NLP, LLM, RAG, Lang Chain frameworks, etc.
• Experience working with NVIDIA Jetson or Orin hardware platforms, particularly in the context of AI model…