Advanced Specialist, Digital Innovation

Celanese is seeking a highly skilled Data Engineer to join its Digital Innovation team. This role focuses on delivering cutting-edge data solutions with an emphasis on data architecture, engineering, and cloud-based data services. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, and Python, and will play a crucial role in enhancing the company's digital presence and customer engagement.

• Assist in overall architecture design, performance tuning, cost management, and implementation of data solutions within Azure cloud environments.
• Implement end-to-end data analytics solutions (from data ingestion through visualization) for large-scale, complex client environments.
• Define and manage the advanced analytics program governance to enable execution from conception to prototyping, testing, deploying, and measuring its overall business value.
• Look beyond existing methodologies and own discipline to define and resolve complex problems, acting as a subject matter expert in one or more areas of the role.
• Influence issues that impact design/selling success or address future concepts, products, or technologies.
• Create formal networks with key decision-makers involving coordination among groups.
• Communicate complex technical topics to non-technical business and senior executives and assist with scoping, architecting, and selling cloud data solutions.
• Attend business performance review meetings to help stakeholders explore data and uncover insights.
• Work autonomously and have decision-making authority on tasks or projects, often acting as a project or program leader.
• Provide guidance on data governance, security, and privacy.

Required Skills:

• 3+ years of Data Warehouse architecture and delivery experience.
• 3+ years of ETL/ELT/Python programming skills, including experience with pipeline orchestration tools, logging, monitoring & alerting, deep troubleshooting, and automated testing & deployments (CI/CD).
• Proficiency in Cloud Data Warehouse technology like Snowflake and SAP SAC.
• Proficiency in Analytics & ETL tools like Power BI, and Alteryx.
• Familiarity with SAP ERP, SAP BW, SFDC, Files, etc. data sources.
• Capability to tie infrastructure and security requirements to data fabric.
• Demonstrated experience working in all phases of full life cycle data analytics development: Requirements, Architecture, Design, Testing, and Deployment.
• Ability to collaborate with executives on strategy, project portfolio management, and best practices.
• Strong presentation skills to author slides and sell technical solutions to clients.
• Project management skills and ability to multitask, with a track record of meeting complex stakeholder needs under tight timelines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience with the Microsoft Azure suite of products.
• Experience in Snowflake, data warehouse in the Cloud.
• Experience in database automation and ETL script development.
• Familiarity with SAP platform is an additional plus.

Required Education & Certifications:

• B.S. in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Engineering, or related field.
• Microsoft Azure Solution Architect certification preferred.
• Snowflake – Snowpro Core certification preferred.
• Analytics tools – Power BI certification is a plus.
• ETL - Alteryx Designer Certified Associate/Professional preferred is a plus.