It’s not just about your career or job title… It’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.

It’s not just about your career or job title… It’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.

Who are we?

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems.

Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more!

Summary:

Wabtec IT Data & Analytics (DnA) Team…at the forefront of the business priorities in building a next generation data and analytics ecosystem…is looking for Data Scientist to develop, validate & deploy large scale data science solutions. This hands-on position is part of IT Data & Analytics – Advanced Analytics & AI team. This position will be part of Advanced Analytics team& works on Data Lake Platform & responsible for Advanced Analytics applications

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Participate in all stages of agile / scrum software development (scrum ceremonies) to design, develop, test, deploy and support data analytics applications. Apply new ideas and follow data flow patterns that can deliver products to show ease of use, faster and smarter ways.

• Works closely with the Dev Lead & TPM of the scrum team to service the needs of the Business teams to deliver solutions. Collaborate well with the DnA team & with cross-functional busines users.

• Design & Develop data acquisition from source systems to Data Lake platform, ingestion processes including AI value add transformations. Create data storage constructs & data load process for mirror, curation, and consumption layers on Data Lake.

• Develop medium to large analytic projects, participate in stakeholder communication, and ensure objectives are met and exceed SLAs.

• Follow the formal ITIL / ITSM processes for Incidents, Change Requests, Deployments and Service Requests, ensure the processes are documented and that IT teams and business users are following for Data process & visualization needs. 

• Create well designed, testable, efficient code. Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems

• Align data flows, design, architecture with business requirements and prepare data for advanced analytical models

• Actively participates in and often leads peer development and code reviews within each Agile sprint, with focus on Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CICD).

• Troubleshoot complex production issues beyond the scope of the OPS team and provide root cause analysis and recommendations for permanent solution

• Identify ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality.

Minimum Qualifications & Eligibility Requirements:   

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Information Technology (IT), Computer Science, or Engineering from an accredited college or university

• Overall, 6 Years of Professional experience in Information Technology with ETL Processing / data architecture / BI / Data integration / Data Ingestion

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in Data Engineering Big data technologies or Data Lake process.

• 3+ years of development experience on Hadoop platform (Hortonworks or AWS EMR), Apache Spark/ Python/ Scala and understanding of big data technologies hosted on AWS (Familiarity with S3/Glue/EMR/RedShift/RDS/Kinesis/Elastic search is plus)

• Good understanding and experience of working in AWS/cloud platform, HDFS, HiveQL, Spark, Python, R

• Data Ingestion expertise using (any of Sqoop, Nifi, Kinesis, HVR, Kafka, etc) and Data Lake hosting on AWS., understands data on Oracle, MSSQL DBs, non-relational source systems.

• Exposure to Data science, R or Python models or NLP, Chatbot technologies desirable

• Flexible and Quick learner

• Critical thinking, decision making, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Uses teamwork skills to achieve goals, solve problems, and manage conflict

• Ability to support multiple initiatives simultaneously and work in a fast-paced environment

• Excellent verbal & written communication skills, including communicating technical issues to non-technical audiences

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Creative, willing to understand, asking questions

• Ability to acquire any specialized domain knowledge required to be more effective in all required activities

• Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment with a sense of urgency, ownership, and accountability

• Adaptable/Flexible: being open to change in response to new information, different or unexpected circumstances, and having the ability to navigate ambiguous situations 

• Ability to break down problems and estimate time for development tasks

• Ability to make basic technology choices based on experience

• Effectiveness and Efficiency, and Accountability

• Highly self-motivated with the ability to work independently, passionate about business & attention to details

Our Commitment to Embrace Diversity:

Wabtec is a global company that invests not just in our products, but also our people by embracing diversity and inclusion. We care about our relationships with our employees and take pride in celebrating the variety of experiences, expertise, and backgrounds that bring us together. At Wabtec, we aspire to create a place where we all belong and where diversity is welcomed and appreciated.   

To fulfill that commitment, we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity, and inclusion. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We have created a space where everyone is given the opportunity to contribute based on their individual experiences and perspectives and recognize that these differences and diverse perspectives make us better.

We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences, and styles… People like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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