Senior Data Engineer

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This job is responsible for driving data engineering efforts to deliver enterprise-wide capabilities and complex data solutions. Key responsibilities include directing code design and delivery tasks associated with the integration, cleaning, transformation, and control of data in operational and analytical data systems and working with the Project Management team to define outcomes and inform work structures. Job expectations include providing technical thought leadership by implementing complex data solutions and interactions across multiple systems and domains.

Summary: This role is responsible for leading the design, governance, and continuous improvement of the data and knowledge foundations that support AI and agentic capabilities across Network Services. The individual in this role works across both structured and unstructured data sources to ensure information is defined, organized, governed, and made available in a manner suitable for trusted AI consumption. Within the Data Knowledge pillar, this role provides senior-level leadership in defining standards, guidelines, and guardrails for how operational knowledge, documentation, configurations, telemetry, metadata, and other contextual assets are curated, controlled, and prepared for model use. This individual partners closely with product and service subject matter experts to understand network technologies, operational workflows, and domain context so that high-quality data and knowledge can be translated into reusable AI-ready assets. Compared with Data Engineer III, this role carries broader accountability for setting direction, influencing standards, designing scalable control frameworks, and guiding more complex cross-domain data and knowledge initiatives that improve the quality, trustworthiness, and operational supportability of context provided to models.

Assembles large, complex data sets that meet functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring that the design and engineering approach is consistent across multiple systems Maintains, improves, cleans, and manipulates large data for operational and analytics data systems, builds complex processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, data quality controls, dependency, and workload management, and communicates required information for deployment, maintenance, and support of business functionality Utilizes multiple architectural components in the design and development of client requirements and collaborates with development teams to understand data requirements and ensure the data architecture is feasible to implement Defines and builds data pipelines to enable data-informed decision making, ensuring adherence to release processes and risk management routines Contributes to existing test suites including integration, regression, and performance, analyzes test reports, identifies any test issues and errors, and leads triage of underlying causes Leads the identification of gaps in data