Jr Data Engineer - GROWMARK, Inc. - Bloomington, IL

GROWMARK is an agricultural cooperative serving almost 400,000 customers across North America, providing agronomy, energy, facility engineering and construction, and logistics products and services, as well as grain marketing and risk management services. Headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois, GROWMARK owns the FS trademark, which is used by its member cooperatives. GROWMARK also owns and operates SEEDWAY, the largest full-line seed company in the United States. More information is available at growmark.com.

See what it's like to work at GROWMARK: https://youtu.be/CSVMnKCySsY

What Will You Do 

You’ll be developing and supporting a variety of different data ingestion processes and visualizations that interact with internal business clients, member cooperative staff, transportation personnel, or farmers. Whether it’s supporting our member cooperative-facing data visualization platform to give them deep insights into their operations, developing new features within our demand forecasting tools that drive more sales, or assisting in bringing new data projects from concept to reality, our expectation is that you’ll deliver these developments as part of our analytics platform. 

In conjunction with business analysts, project managers, and technical leads, you’ll interact with our business stakeholders and end users to help correct current issues, improve existing workflows, or scope out new developments for the future. You will learn how our business operates, determine where we can gain efficiencies, and communicate with the business as a member of a team supporting their operations. 

Are you curious, self-motivated, technically agile, and always looking to find efficiencies? So are we, and we’d love for you to help us solve many of the challenging problems presented to us using bleeding-edge technologies. 

What Skills are Desired 
 

• Self-motivated, technically agile, strong communication skills. 

• Experience with ETL tools, data ingestion methods, data lake architectures. 

• Experience with JavaScript, NodeJS, TypeScript. 

• Experience with Python, PySpark. 

• Experience with SQL and databases such as MS SQL Server, Postgres, or similar relational database. 

• Experience using Visual Studio Code 

• Experience with Git and Github 

• Experience with project management tools such as JIRA desired. 

• Experience with Tableau, Power BI, Qlik or similar a plus. 

• Experience with AWS (Glue, Athena, S3, Lambda, QuickSight) a plus. 

• Experience with API integrations, REST API standards a plus. 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science/Analytics, Computer Science or Information Technology or equivalent. 

Why Join Us 

• Excellent Health and Wellness Benefits – medical, dental, vision, onsite and online nurses, wellness activities, FSA and HSA options.  

• Robust Financial Benefits – fully funded company pension, 401(k) company match, competitive performance-based compensation.  

• Emphasis on Work-Life Balance – generous PTO starting at 3 weeks, 1 paid volunteer day per year, 2 weeks of paid parental leave, and flex work schedules available.  

• Industry Leading Training Opportunities – in-house training, leadership development, and tuition assistance.  

We are an equal opportunity employer, including protected veterans and qualified individuals with disabilities. Employment may be contingent upon receipt of an acceptable and job-related background check, drug test, motor vehicle report, and/or reference check, as applicable and permissible by law.