Engineer II, Data Platforms

Job Summary:
AARP is the nation's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering people 50 and older. The Engineer II will work with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical specifications, establish technical roadmaps, and provide ongoing technical support while innovating and improving technology processes.
Responsibilities:
• Establishes a technical roadmap for the platform and/or capability strategy and lifecycle that considers value-based outcomes, costs to maintain, supportability, and performance.
• Ensures sound integration, data, security, and business architecture design throughout all stages within the platform and/or capability lifecycle.
• Provides rapid delivery and development of technical solutions that align with business and/or platform desired outcomes.
• Troubleshoots and resolves technical issues related to platform or capability systems, solutions, and services.
• Innovates and drives continuous improvements of implementation methodology and technical service offerings based on customer/employee experiences or other enterprise objectives/outcomes.
• Participates in a Community of Interest for engineers across all capability and platform teams to share information and strengthen understanding of business needs and technology-based business solutions.
• Develops and maintains deep technical knowledge and expertise related to domain area systems, solutions, services, and applications.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience in data engineering and/or software development.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Python and/or PySpark, and SQL for data transformation, pipeline development, and data modeling.
• 3+ years of experience developing and integrating APIs (RESTful services, JSON).
• Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines using Git-based repositories (e.g., GitHub).
• Applied experience with cloud-native technologies, including AWS.
• Working knowledge of object-oriented and/or ontology-based data environments, and experience building applications/workflows on platforms such as Salesforce, PowerApps, or Databricks.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills, with experience working in Agile environments, contributing to solution design, and supporting production systems, including participation in on-call and after-hours release support as needed.
• Regular and reliable job attendance
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Exhibit respect and understanding of others to maintain professional relationships
• Independent judgement in evaluation options to make sound decisions
• Home office environment with the ability to work effectively surrounded by moderate home environment noise - (Telework)
Company:
AARP is leading a revolution in the way people view and live life after 50. Founded in 1958, the company is headquartered in Washington, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.