Data Engineer 2 - Customer Insights Delivery (Hybrid - Seattle, WA)
At a glance
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As a Data Engineer at Nordstrom's Customer Insights Delivery team, you will work closely with the Senior Engineering Manager and collaborate daily with Customer Analytics, Marketing, and Customer Care teams. Your primary responsibilities include building and maintaining production dbt models and performing SQL queries to power customer analytics across various domains. You will contribute to modernizing the analytics engineering stack by migrating transformations, writing tests, and documentation while leveraging AI tools for faster development. Additionally, you will partner with Data Science teams to deliver trusted datasets that support marketing campaigns and personalization models. The role requires 2+ years of experience in production-quality SQL and dbt model building, along with familiarity with cloud environments like GCP or AWS, and a strong interest in applying AI to data engineering challenges.
Skills
What you'll do
- Build and maintain production dbt models for customer, marketing, and loyalty analytics.
- Contribute to the modernization of dbt and semantic layers by migrating transformations and writing documentation.
- Use AI tools like LLM-assisted development to enhance pipeline efficiency and reduce manual effort.
- Deliver trusted datasets that support marketing campaigns, personalization models, and customer health metrics.
- Participate in code reviews and apply best practices for testing, documentation, performance, and cost optimization.
- Monitor pipelines and provide production support alongside Customer Analytics and Data Science teams.
What we're looking for
- 2+ years of experience writing production-quality SQL with proficiency in BigQuery or similar cloud data warehouse.
- 1+ year of hands-on experience building dbt models and familiarity with dbt fundamentals like testing and documentation.
- 1+ year of experience in modern programming languages such as Python or Java.
- Strong background in data modeling and data warehousing.
- Experience working in a cloud environment, preferably GCP or AWS.
- Curiosity and passion for applying AI/ML to data engineering challenges.
Employer
About Nordstrom
Nordstrom is a leading American luxury department store chain offering a wide selection of clothing, shoes, accessories, and beauty products through its stores, Nordstrom Rack outlets, and online. Industry: Luxury Department Store Retail
Nordstrom currently has 24 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $142,000–$220,500 across 24 roles with salary data.
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