Overview
Overview
Real Challenge, Real Impact. Real Rewards.
Are you looking to use analytics and machine learning to drive consumer and marketplace insights for a Fortune 200 CPG company? If you have 6+ years of IT experience, built data pipelines, engineered complex data sets and queried databases using Python, R, SQL of Scala, then we want to speak with you about the Lead Data Engineer role that we are looking to fill in Richmond, VA.
Job Description
- Building data and analytic tools, machine learning models, or other analytic capabilities for business analysts and data scientists, particularly related to consumer and marketplace insights
- Performing data engineering, data profiling, and/or querying on large, complex data sets to meet functional and non-functional business requirements
- Communicating complex technical information to business customers and project teams in an effective and concise manner
- Participating as a hands-on technical resource or lead technical contractors in IT project development
- Performing design and code review on outsourced ETL (extract, transform, and load) activities
- Assessing technical infrastructure and processes, identifying risks and recommending solutions
- Coordinating with multi-functional resources to deliver end to end solutions
Specific Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related discipline.
- 6 plus years of experience in IT
- Big data experience in a cloud-based architecture preferred, such as Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL
- Experience building data pipelines, engineering complex data sets, or querying databases using languages like Python, SQL, R, or Scala, we prefer that it is in a Spark environment.
- Experience with data visualization tools, such as Power BI or Tableau
- Familiarity with machine learning tools and techniques
- Experience in development using an agile methodology, preferably through Microsoft DevOps
- Strong project management and organizational skills
- Strong written and oral communication skills
We recognize that our people are the reason we achieve our business goals. We believe in developing the leadership potential of our employees by providing them with opportunities for training, development, and advancement.
In addition to the opportunity to apply and develop your skills toward key business objectives, we offer an excellent compensation package including a competitive base salary, comprehensive health/vision/dental insurance, participation in our incentive compensation and deferred profit sharing programs, as well as a relocation assistance package.
Company Overview
At Altria, we recognize that our people are the reason we achieve our business goals. It’s only through diverse perspectives and insights that we will be able to take on the important challenges we will face to dramatically transform our business – and our industry. The work opportunities and experiences, combined with training, development, and advancement programs, allow our employees to achieve their full potential and deliver superior business results. We have the opportunity to make more progress on harm reduction in the next 10 years than we have in the past 50 years. Join us as we work together to shape a better future for adult tobacco consumers, our employees, and our shareholders. Each Altria company is an equal opportunity employer.
About Altria
Altria's companies have a strong American heritage stretching back more than 180 years.
Altria Group holds diversified positions across tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis. Through our wholly-owned subsidiaries and strategic investments in other companies, we seek to provide category-leading choices to adult consumers, while returning maximum value to shareholders through dividends and growth.
Our tobacco companies – which have been the undisputed market leaders in the U.S. tobacco industry for decades – include some of the most enduring names in American business: Philip Morris USA, the maker of Marlboro cigarettes, and U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company, the maker of Copenhagen and Skoal. We also own John Middleton, manufacturer of Black & Mild cigars, and Nat Sherman, a super-premium cigarette and cigar business. And we have 35 percent ownership of JUUL Labs, Inc., the nation’s leading e-vapor company.
We complement our total tobacco platform with our ownership of Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, a collection of distinctive wine estates, and our significant equity investment in Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer. Our agreement to acquire a significant stake in Cronos Group, a leading global cannabinoid company, represents an exciting new global growth opportunity.
We are a FORTUNE 200 company, proud to call Richmond, Virginia our home. For 20 years, we've been guided by our Mission & Values. Our people and companies address tough industry issues, like reducing the health effects of tobacco use and preventing underage tobacco use. And we focus on strengthening the communities where we live and work.
We know that businesses that are great over the long term – like ours – must earn today's success while preparing for tomorrow's opportunities. And we are doing just that.
