Data Engineer 2

Garmin is a technology company seeking a Data Engineer 2 to support the development and operational stability of its Big Data ecosystems. The role focuses on administering data infrastructure, designing scalable data solutions, optimizing data integration processes, troubleshooting complex issues, and providing on-call support.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical input to feature development plans and concept documents
• Understands production and operations issues as they relate to engineering
• Configures and administers data servers and Hadoop components
• Develops scalable, extensible solution architectures leveraging contemporary big-data technologies in an evolving operational framework
• Analyzes existing data structures and recommends improvements
• Partners with team lead to identify technical requirements and alternatives to accomplish projects, leads major incident troubleshooting involving multiple disciplines and develops reliable solutions to complex problems which require ingenuity and creativity
• Participates in design, code, test, maintenance, enhance and decommission phases throughout software life cycle to contribute technical expertise and to identify issues
• Participates in and helps guide research POCs, including design, coding, and performance and efficacy measurement
• Provides significant contributions to defining team roadmap and priorities, facilitates team discussions and plans, and offers innovative suggestions within area of discipline
• Demonstrates broad understanding of Garmin's business model, including various departments and is recognized as an expert in assigned discipline and applies extensive technical expertise and analysis to initiatives
• Researches new technologies and proposes cost effective solutions and contributes input to broader technology solutions outside of discipline
• Provides 24x7 on call support

Preferred

• Building data models and transformations inside PowerBI
• Experience with real-time streaming technologies such as Kafka
• Experience developing data visualizations using PowerBI
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining star schema models
• Power BI
• Data Modeling
• Data Transformations
• Real-Time Streaming
• Kafka
• Star Schema Design
• Model Building
• Model Maintenance

Company

• GPS-enabled technology for sports, outdoor, marine, automotive, and aviation
• Olathe, Kansas, USA
• https://www.garmin.com/en-US/
• Founded in 1989
• 10001+ employees

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Business or related field AND a minimum of 2 years relevant experience
• Experience with one or more of the following: Star Schema Modeling, Spark, or Hadoop
• Experience developing SSIS packages or similar technologies to support data integration processes
• Experience tuning and optimizing ETL jobs to perform at scale
• Experience writing complex queries combining data from disparate systems
• Experience with Java, Hadoop and various components
• Experience developing data visualizations
• Demonstrated ability to implement new technologies effectively
• Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Consistently demonstrates quality and effectiveness in work documentation/organization
• Building data models and transformations inside PowerBI
• Experience with real-time streaming technologies such as Kafka
• Experience developing data visualizations using PowerBI
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining star schema models
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Business or related field AND a minimum of 2 years relevant experience

Required skills

• Star Schema Modeling, Apache Spark, Hadoop, SSIS, Data Integration, ETL Optimization, Complex Data Queries, Java, Power BI, Apache Kafka

Preferred skills

• Building data models and transformations inside PowerBI, Experience developing data visualizations using PowerBI, Glassdoor, 3.6, Olathe, Kansas, USA, https://www.garmin.com/en-US/, H1B Sponsorship, Data Powered by, Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship, 88, Represents job field similar to this job, Engineering and Development, Customer Service and Support, Accounting and Finance, Management and Executive, Trends of Total Sponsorships, *2026, (30), 2025, (69), 2024, (61), 2023, (40), 2022, (85), 2021, 2020, (76), Public Company

Experience

• 2+ years