Lead Enterprise Applications Engineer
Cox Automotive5 days ago
Responsibilities
- Architect, develop, implement, configure, integrate, customize, and support enterprise applications and data solutions for financial consolidation, planning, forecasting, and reporting.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, data models, warehouse structures, semantic layers, and integrations with enterprise financial applications.
- Optimize queries, pipelines, warehouse workloads, application performance, infrastructure architecture, and cloud resource utilization.
- Implement data quality checks, regression testing, validation frameworks, anomaly monitoring, data governance, access controls, lineage, retention, security, privacy, audit, and compliance practices.
- Orchestrate, schedule, monitor, and troubleshoot production data workloads, including observability, alerting, recovery, availability, and freshness procedures.
- Develop reporting metrics, dashboards, and KPI insights related to financial data, infrastructure cost, and service utilization.
- Resolve escalated production, integration, application, and pipeline issues across multiple technical teams.
- Contribute to development, deployment, support, break-fix, systems management, code review, pipeline review, design standards, and technical mentoring.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 6+ years of data engineering or architecture experience, with alternative combinations including a master’s degree and 4 years, a Ph.D. and up to 2 years, or 18 years of related experience.
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering, business intelligence, and/or enterprise analytics across reporting, dashboards, data pipelines, and data modeling.
- Advanced SQL proficiency and experience with data integration tools such as MS SQL Developer, dbt, and Informatica.
- Strong experience with data modeling, data access, schemas, and data storage techniques in Snowflake.
- Experience designing and implementing scalable cloud data pipelines using AWS and Snowflake.
- Experience with ETL/ELT patterns, data warehousing, data orchestration, relational databases, business intelligence tools, data quality tools, Git, and application lifecycle methodologies.
- Experience with SQL, MySQL, Postgres/PostgreSQL, Power BI, Tableau, or similar technologies.
- Demonstrated project management experience with complex system implementations and experience implementing new tools into technology environments.
- Experience with AI-related tools such as GitHub Copilot, Snowflake Cortex, or M365 Copilot.
- Preferred experience includes architecting and performance-tuning enterprise applications, implementing secure and highly available solutions, leading complex implementations, resolving escalated issues, and using operational cost and utilization metrics for improvements.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, stakeholder presentation, automation, software deployment, and application support capabilities.
- Availability for rotational on-call duties outside standard business hours may be required.
Benefits
- Rotational on-call duties outside standard business hours may be required.
- The role offers collaboration with Architecture, Engineering, Technical Operations, Quality, Finance, Accounting, and FP&A teams, along with opportunities for technical mentoring and evaluation of emerging technologies.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Cox Automotive
Cox Automotive is the world’s largest automotive services and technology provider. Fueled by the largest breadth of first- and third-party data fed by 2.3 billion online interactions a year, Cox Automotive tailors leading solutions for car shoppers, auto manufacturers, dealers, lenders and fleets. The company has 29,000+ employees on four continents and a portfolio of industry-leading brands that include Autotrader®, Kelley Blue Book®, Manheim®, vAuto®, Dealertrack®, NextGear Capital™, CentralDispatch® and Cox Fleet®. Cox Automotive is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Inc., a privately owned, Atlanta-based company with $23 billion in annual revenue. Cox Automotive has been included on Glassdoor’s Best Companies in Tech & AI 2026 and Best Place to Work in 2026 lists.