What are the responsibilities and job description for the Agile Engineering Practices Coach (Expert) - Svc/Pro position at Bayer?
The successful candidate will collaborate with Bayer's regional business stewards, enterprise data stewardship and data assets to analyze, design, and deliver enterprise data capabilities and solutions that solve business problems and enable new insights across all business units and regions. The candidate must understand business objectives/initiatives, partner with multiple teams to analyze regional data business capabilities and support the IT strategy on an enterprise level.
The primary responsibilities of this role, Senior Data Steward, are to:
- Coordinate design sessions with Stewards, Data Engineers, Engineering teams, Product Managers, business and/or IT stakeholders, that result in design documentation and business metadata capture
- Understand business capability needs and processes as they relate to IT solutions through partnering with Product managers and business and functional IT stakeholders
- Ability to identify gaps in requirements based on business subject matter domain expertise;
- Implement and utilize data solutions for data analysis and profiling using a variety of tools such as Postman, R or Python and following teams established processes and methodologies
- Participate in discussions across business organizations, lines of business, countries/hubs to document business logic and sources of data;
- Lead Open Data efforts, making data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) to strengthen Bayer Crop Science's effectiveness in carrying out its mission
- Lead trainings and discussions to evangelize these frameworks and objectives - Governance, Data Quality, Data Wrangling and Best Practices
- Collaborate with other data stewards and engineers within the team and across teams on aligning delivery dates and integration efforts
- Define data quality rules and implement automated monitoring, reporting, and remediation solutions
- Utilize root cause analysis to identify trends and assess impact of data quality issues
- Coordinate intake and resolution of data support tickets
- Support data migration from legacy systems, data inserts and updates not supported by applications
- Deliver high quality data required for successful implementation of program objectives and organizational strategies
- Identify data quality needs and implement solutions focused on preventing quality issues and minimizing manual intervention
- Ensure that data is structured properly, follows governance guidelines, and enforces security policies
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Science, Agriculture or other related field;
- Have at least six years of experience (or four years with Master's degree or 1 year with PhD)) in areas such as:
- Experience in relevant business domain
- Experience querying SQL and/or NoSQL databases
- Experience managing data using APIs
- Experience manipulating data using scripting languages and/or data processing software (e.g. Python, R, Pipeline Pilot, Alteryx, ETL applications)
- Experience profiling data, summarizing, and reporting data quality metrics
- Experience participating in the build and support of APIs using resource-based design principles
- Experience participating in the build and support of APIs
- Experience with modern engineering technologies and data principles, for instance: Big Data Cloud Compute, NoSQL, etc
- Demonstrate ability to deliver detailed technical documentation
- Demonstrated critical in-depth domain knowledge that provides insight and authority to working groups
- Understanding of agile development, continuous deployment, and DevOps
- Responsible for setting the strategy for assigned areas of work and overseeing success and strategic alignment of project scope, budget, and timelines within given scope, budget, and timelines, the position is free to organize work as required
Open to Remote
IMPORTANT NOTE for POTENTIAL US CANDIDATES: Our client expects its colleagues to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Colleagues are also expected to disclose their vaccination status and if fully vaccinated, provide proof of vaccination status to Occupational Medicine. Our client defines fully vaccinated in alignment with CDC which is two weeks after completing the two-dose vaccine regimen or two weeks after completing the one-dose regimen. Additionally, colleagues are also required to comply with state, local and customer requirements.
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