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 play a pivotal role in transforming data into actionable insights that empower our internal teams and member companies. Our data engineers collaborate closely with our product divisions to drive impactful results through crafting high-quality datasets that build compelling visualizations. Whether you’re enhancing our internal analytics platform to accelerate sales, providing data-backed insights that shape member strategies, or taking new data projects from concept to deployment, your work will directly support our mission to make data-driven decision-making a core part of our business success.

Are you curious, self-motivated, technically agile, and find intellectual friction valuable to finding the best solutions? Do you thrive with autonomy and a culture of collaboration with passionate engineers? We’d love for you to help us solve many of the challenging problems presented to us using bleeding-edge technologies in the agriculture space.

What’s required?

• Self-motivated, technically agile, strong communication skills.
• Experience with SQL and strong performance-tuning, query optimization skills
• Experience with ETL tools, data ingestion methods, data lake architectures.
• Experience with Python.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases like MS SQL Server or Postgres.
• Experience using Visual Studio Code
• Experience with Git and Github
• Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science/Analytics, Computer Science or Information Technology or equivalent.

What will set you apart?

• Experience with Apache Airflow preferred.
• Experience with JavaScript, NodeJS, TypeScript preferred.
• Experience with AWS (Glue, Athena, S3, Lambda, QuickSight) preferred.
• Experience with API integrations, REST API standards preferred.
• Experience with Tableau, Power BI, Qlik or similar preferred.
• Experience with project management tools such as ServiceNow.

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.