Data Analytics Engineer

Company Description

At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible.

At our core, Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we’ve been doing just that. Our technology helped people put a man on the moon.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest growth organizations in the world. From energizing the most competitive gaming platforms, to enabling systems to make cities safer and cars smarter and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and public cloud, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Binge-watch any shows, use social media or shop online lately? You’ll find Western Digital supporting the storage infrastructure behind many of these platforms. And, that flash memory card that captures and preserves your most precious moments? That’s us, too.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, storage devices and platforms for business and consumers alike. Our data-centric solutions are comprised of the Western Digital®, G-Technology™, SanDisk® and WD® brands.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. It’s You & Western Digital. Together, we’re the next BIG thing in data.

Job Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Advanced Analytics Office is leading an internal platform development that enables real-time analytics and optimization of factory processes. The platform has been implemented at various factories globally and added significant business value. The selected candidate will be a part of a dynamic team working closely with factory operations and the platform development team to provide solutions, specifically designed to address operational analytics challenges. This is a unique opportunity to be a part of a team that's instrumental in Western Digital’s Industry 4.0 journey. We are changing the way how analytics is used across global operations sites. This position covers the following activities:

• Support (manufacturing) operations analytics projects at global sites.
• Collect information about the business problems, understand the related current practices and the desired solution.
• Develop data pipelines for the analytics models, leveraging factory data sources.
• Develop analytics applications (full stack) with data backbone, integrated analytics engine and WebUI.
• Support the go-live phase of analytics applications.
• Maintain the models, participate in CI/CD activities.

Qualifications

REQUIRED:

• Master’s degree or equivalent (CS, CE, CIS, IS, MIS, or engineering discipline), experience in industry IT.
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including MariaDB and HBase.
• Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Airflow.
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, etc.
• Experience in PHP, HTML, Java and C++.
• Experience with DevOps tools: Git, Bitbucket etc.
• Experience with analytics and applications frameworks: Plotly Dash, Anaconda, Streamlit etc.

SKILLS:

• Good interpersonal communication skills to contribute as a member of global, distributed teams focused on delivering quality services and solutions.
• Understand semiconductors manufacturing processes, and the associated operations data to be processed and analyzed.
• Cooperation skills, to work in a team under supervision of senior experts, while ability to work self-paced on individual assignments too.
• Able to distill complex technical challenges to actionable and explainable decisions.
• Work in DevOps teams by building consensus and mediating compromises when necessary.
• Demonstrate excellent engineering & automation skills in the context of factory optimization using continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD)
• Demonstrate ability to rapidly learn new and emerging technologies with ability to rapidly define engineering standards and produce automation code.
• Operational abilities including early software release support and driving root cause analysis and remediation.
• Ability to Work with and Engage Multiple Functional Groups
• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture.
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and Big data technologies.
• Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.
• Experience with the application of industrial engineering practices, WIP Management, Production Control and with preferred experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Good abstraction skills, critical thinking and problem solving ability. 
• Strong English verbal communication skills.

Additional Information

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law poster.

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at jobs.accommodations@wdc.com to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 08/08/2024, although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York.  This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Western Digital’s Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance.  Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Western Digital’s Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.