Senior Data Engineer, Vehicle Telematics

Job Description

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Austin TX or Warren MI three times per week at minimum or other frequency dictated by the business if more than 3 days.

The Role

General Motors uses telematics data as a cornerstone of its software-defined vehicle strategy enhancing safety security and product development to create an exceptional customer experience. Analytical insights from this data lead to improvements in operational efficiency maintenance and vehicle performance as well as address the need for intelligent (ADAS) sustainable transportation (EV). Our analytical datastore team owns the platform that streams and stores this data from millions of vehicles around the globe.

We seek a polyglot engineer with a strong background in data and software experienced in designing and maintaining large-scale systems. This technical leadership role requires a passion for quality efficiency and reliability. As a senior data engineer youll be building the platform to enable thousands of use cases that require telematics data. You will play a key role in our teams success supporting hundreds of internal analytics users and enhancing the experience for millions of retail and fleet customers. This is a high-visibility role!

What Youll Do

• Develop a scalable data platform to support continuing increases in data volume and complexity
• Develop and maintain data pipelines to ingest process and curate large volumes of data using Spark Kafka Event Hubs Azure Data Lake Storage or similar technologies
• Support the infrastructure required for optimal ingestion transformation and storing of data
• Collaborate with data scientists to support the needs of advanced ML development
• Design and implement rigorous data observability validation governance and quality checks
• Mentor and support junior engineers by providing guidance coaching and educational opportunities
• Simplify simplify simplify and document your work!

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field
• 5 years of experience in data engineering including Python or Scala SQL and relational/non-relational data storage
• 3 years of experience in distributed petabyte-scale data processing using Spark as well as container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes
• Strong with performance tuning strategies such as partitioning clustering caching and various other serialization techniques
• Strong with infrastructure as code (IaC) and CI/CD best practices
• Proven cloud experience and familiarity with at least one cloud platform (Azure preferred)
• Strong background in any of the following: data architecture data governance metadata management data quality observability or MLOps
• Knowledge in schema design and data contracts
• Excellent teamwork and leadership skills to collaborate and influence across product program and engineering

What Can Give You a Competitive Advantage (Preferred Qualifications)

• Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field
• Experience in processing and storing various file formats including video audio and image
• Experience with tools such as Databricks or Snowflake this is where the vast majority of our downstream consumers live.

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

Compensation:

• The expected base compensation for this role is: $134000 - $219000. Actual base compensation within the identified range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
• Bonus Potential:An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance job level and individual performance.
• Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical dental vision Health Savings Account Flexible Spending Accounts retirement savings plan sickness and accident benefits life insurance paid vacation & holidays tuition assistance programs employee assistance program GM vehicle discounts and more.

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