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Lithia Motors Support Services, Inc.

Position: Data Engineer

Location: Headquarters: Medford, OR (Remote position, may telecommute from anywhere in the U.S.)

Duties: Responsible for owning the product and guiding a cross-discipline development team to deliver high-value work for the business. Utilize technical knowledge to support and collaborate with Product Management, stakeholders, and the development team. Own the team sprint backlog and serving as single point of contact for development team and customer teams to provide clarity on features. Decompose features, define and refine user stories, and prioritize backlog. Build and maintain Agile team sprint backlog with input from customers, engineers, other stakeholders, and Product Manager. Review, assess, and understand the scope of work, and assist with key decision-making. Guide development team during sprints to answer real-time questions and provide clarity on user stories. Maintain the efficient flow of just-in-time story refinement activities throughout team execution, typically maintaining 2-3 sprints worth of user stories that meet the “Definition of Ready”. Participate in team demos with primary responsibility for reviewing and approving completed user stories (includes validation of user stories meeting the “Definition of Done”). Recognize technical challenges and make educated trade-offs. Assist Product Manager to build and lead product vision and technical roadmap. Develop and maintain professional and technical knowledge through research and analysis. Become a Subject Matter Expert on underlying system processes and data structures. Use SQL to analyze source data, identify data quality issues, test data development, and understand how data serves business processes. Document, articulate, and explain technical issues for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, or a closely related field (foreign equivalent accepted)

Experience: One year experience as a Data Engineer, Software Developer or similar position.

Skills / requirements:

One year experience:

• Working with CDP (Customer Data Platform)

• Working with MDM (Master Data Management) tools, such as Profisee or similar

• Working with open-source software development

• Working with SQL

• Working with Azure Cloud, including Data Factory

• Employer may conduct background check, reference check and drug test prior to hire

All experience, skills and requirements may be gained concurrently.

Competencies

• Does the right thing, takes action and adapts to change

• Self-motivates, believes in accountability, focuses on results, makes plans and follows through

• Believes in humility, shares best practices, desires to keep learning, measures performance and adapts to improve results

• Thrives on a team, stays positive, lives our values

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.*

• Up to 1/3 of time: standing, walking, lifting up to 25 pounds

• Up to 2/3 of time: sitting, kneeling, reaching, talking, hearing

*Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.

NOTE: This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of responsibilities, skills, or working conditions associated with the job. While this list is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, the company reserves the right to revise the functions and duties of the job or to require that additional or different tasks be performed.

We offer best in class industry benefits:

• Competitive pay

• Medical, Dental and Vision Plans

• Paid Holidays & PTO

• Short and Long-Term Disability

• Paid Life Insurance

• 401(k) Retirement Plan

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Lithia Learning Center

• Vehicle Purchase Discounts

• Wellness Programs

  High School graduate or equivalent, 18 years or older required. Acceptable driving record and a valid driver's license in your state of residence necessary for select roles. We are a drug free workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity (regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status). We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

At Lithia & Driveway, we stand by our mission of Growth Powered by People, as we build a workplace that ignites ideas and opportunities to Earn Customers for Life. Our focus is on making the customer experience better; as we aim to meet our customers’ needs whether in person, online or a combination of both.

Lithia & Driveway is the largest automotive retailer in North America and listed on the Fortune 500 (NYSE: LAD). Drive your career forward with roles in Sales, Finance, Service, Technology and Corporate. With thousands of vehicles and hundreds of locations, the career possibilities are endless. Join us as we accelerate towards growth in automotive and beyond!