Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DICK'S Sporting Goods is committed to creating an inclusive workforce that reflects the communities it serves. They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build the data foundation that powers personalized customer experiences and marketing insights, working within a diverse data ecosystem and collaborating across multiple teams.
Responsibilities
- Develop reliable data pipelines using SQL, Python, Databricks/Spark
- Improve and modernize existing pipelines for clarity, performance, and maintainability
- Add tests, documentation, lineage, and observability to strengthen trust
- Translate complex, multi‑source schemas into clear conceptual and physical models
- Handle grain alignment, key logic, and definition clarity with care
- Design models that scale and reduce friction for analysts, product, and downstream users
- Apply disciplined data hygiene and privacy-first patterns
- Safely move and store sensitive customer data in compliance with organizational standards
- Partner with analysts, product managers, marketing teams, data scientists, vendor teams, and other engineers
- Communicate assumptions, trade‑offs, and decision points clearly
- Bring clarity to ambiguous problems and help guide the team toward the best path forward
- Share knowledge, document meaningfully, and help strengthen team patterns
- Support teammates through code reviews, pairing, and problem‑solving
- Use AI‑assisted tools to accelerate documentation, test generation, and iteration
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent level preferred
- Experience enables job holder to deal with the majority of situations and to advise others (Over 3 years to 6 years)
- Basic experience of coordinating the work of others (4 to 6 months)
- Strong SQL and Python fundamentals
- Experience with Databricks/Spark or similar large-scale platforms
- Clarity in thinking about data models and transformations
- Detail-oriented and disciplined data hygiene
- Ability to break down complex problems and communicate them clearly
- Curiosity and willingness to learn new tools/contexts quickly
- Team-first mindset — you share, collaborate, and elevate others
- Experience in refactoring codebase, cataloging/data governance, and agile development are a plus
Benefits
- Incentive
- Equity
- Benefits
- DICK'S Sporting Goods complies with all state paid leave requirements.
- We also offer a generous suite of benefits.
Company Overview
Dick's Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment It is a sub-organization of Foot Locker. It was founded in 1948, and is headquartered in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.dickssportinggoods.com.