Senior Software Engineer (Data Engineering)

Role Specific Information

Job Description

About the Role
As Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with design, product and engineering experts to tackle real-world challenges and deliver innovative solutions that elevate Kohl’s retail offerings. 

What You’ll Do
Lead the development of high-quality applications that are robust, observable and measurable using extreme programming (XP) practices and a user-centric approach

Participate in the entire application lifecycle in collaboration with designers, product managers, and other engineers on the product team

Leverage critical thinking, experimentation, data, and industry best practices to implement desired business outcomes

Facilitate group discussions and team ceremonies and develop a shared context

Give and receive feedback that’s empathetic, actionable and specific

Practice emergent architecture with sane defaults and build software that is easy to use and easy to modify

Establish and lead product engineering and software standards

Ideate a new product from a user perspective, starting with one or more problem spaces and ending with a stack-ranked list of feasible solutions to test

Research and stay up to date on tech market trends and practices

Lead technical initiatives not only on the team but also across the department

Additional tasks may be assigned

SENIOR BIG DATA SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Experience in SQL and NOSQL data modeling for cloud data lakes.

Understanding of data as a product or data mesh topologies using cloud data lakes like Google Big Query, Amazon Redshift or Snowflake

Experience building and performance tuning ETL pipelines using Technologies like Apache Airflow, spark, python/scala.

Preferred experience working with GCP data stack and infrastructure, including GCS, Dataproc, Pubsub, IAM, VPC Network.

Knowledge of real-time streaming technologies like Kafkaconnect, and Flume for messaging and streaming pipelines.

Experience handling PCI/PII data adhering to compliance standards like GDPR, PCI DSS, SOX, CCPA

Experience in designing and integrating GenAI tools and technologies like OpenAI, Gemini and Llama LLMs

What Skills You Have
Required
4+ years of experience in software development

Understanding of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database, schemas and testing strategies

In-depth knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment and test-driven development

Preferred
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field

Experience with large-scale application troubleshooting and performance tuning

Exposure working with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)

Familiarity and experience with XP (Extreme Programming) 

Essential Functions
The requirements listed below are representative of functions you will be required to perform, however you may be required to perform additional functions. Kohl’s may revise this job description from time to time. To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship.
Ability to perform the accountabilities listed in the “What You’ll Do” Section

Ability to comply with dress code requirements

Basic math and reading skills, legible handwriting, and basic computer operation

Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance and meet scheduling requirements as set by the company

Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines

Ability to give direction and to receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel

Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others

Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes

Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs

Ability to use a personal computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc.

Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units

Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner