Job Title:  Specialist / Sr. Technical Specialist, Data Platform Engineer

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Job Number #166107 - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Who We Are

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.
 

About Colgate-Palmolive

Do you want to be part of a team that is building a future to smile about? What about having the opportunity to connect with others across the world, full of stimulating discussions, and making impactful contributions? If this is how you see your career, Colgate is the place to be!

Our dependable household brands, dedicated employees, and sustainability commitments make us a company passionate about building a future to smile about for our employees, consumers, and surrounding communities. The pride in our brand fuels a workplace that encourages creative thinking, champions experimentation, and promotes authenticity which has given us enduring success.
If you want to work for a company that lives by their values, then give your career a reason to smile...every single day.

The Experience:

In today’s dynamic technology environment, it is an exciting time to be a part of the information technology team at Colgate. Our highly technical and innovative team is dedicated to driving growth for Colgate Palmolive in this constantly evolving landscape.

What role will you play as a member of the Colgate’s Information Technology team?

As a Sr. Technical  Specialist you need to understand the business we support and will be responsible to provide direction to a team of engineers to ensure data needs to meet business demands in various functions.

This position will establish architecture principles, build models of data that enable the implementation of the business architecture, generate diagrams displaying keydata entities, and produce an inventory of the data needed to realize the architecture vision.

Our teams work on the latest data technologies in the Cloud space including Snowflake, BigQuery, DBT, Apache Airflow, Apache Iceberg, Spark and more. This position will be focused on building out and leading the vision for our external and internal data in our modern cloud data platform.

The candidate should be comfortable in playing a lead role towards the evolution of technology deployments across the global footprint.

Who are you…

You are a Technical Specialist - 

• Translate business needs into long-term architecture solutions in key data areas for syndicated, point of sale and indirect trade data

• Define, design, and help architect solution and coordinating and communicating with GIT Teams for implementation 

• Define, design, and build data models for use by the business

• Evaluate reusability of current data for additional analyses 

• Review object and data models and the metadata repository to structure the data for better management and quicker access

• Define how the data is stored, consumed, coordinated and led by different data entities and IT systems.

• Engage with the data management team in best practices for data sourcing, key data elements, data quality management and metadata.

• Engage with the data warehousing team in the migration to cloud warehousing

• Provide data initiatives, evaluations, and mentorship with projects in accordance to our corporate guidelines.

• Build expertise in diverse and emerging technologies and new architectural concepts and principles.

You connect the dots - 

• Support day to day business requirements according to global SLA

• Ensure the proper use of information technology project management methodology to align with governance practices.

You are a collaborator -

• Collaborate with business / functional team, develop detailed plans and accurate estimates for completion of build, system testing and implementation of project

• Mentor and coach junior developer resources.

You are an innovator -

• Conduct performance tuning to improve system performance over multiple business processes

• Stay updated with the latest technological advancement. Adapt to these changes by self-training and research work and evaluate how / where it can add value to the business

• Build expertise in diverse and emerging technologies and new architectural concepts and principles.

What you’ll need…(Required)

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field.

• 5+ years professional experience as a data analyst, analytics / data platform engineer, data engineer, or related role developing conceptual, logical, and preliminary physical models for an enterprise

• Experience working with cloud data warehousing (e.g.- Snowflake, BigQuery)

• Experience with programming languages like SQL, Python, etc.

• Experience working with cloud environments (e.g.- GCP, AWS).

• Good Communication and Interpersonal skills

• Willingness to gain training/certification in designated technologies.

What you’ll need…(Preferred):

• Database architecture and data warehousing experience

• GitHub, Terraform tools knowledge

• Project management

• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g.- Docker, Kubernetes)

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Achieving our purpose starts with our people — ensuring our workforce represents the people and communities we serve —and creating an environment where our people feel they belong; where we can be our authentic selves, feel treated with respect and have the support of leadership to impact the business in a meaningful way.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.

Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please complete this request form should you require accommodation.

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