Senior System Engineer - GM Global Technical Center - Michigan IT Innovation Center

Job Description

Hybrid, reporting to a specific location where work needs to be performed / collaboration should happen (regardless this location is within a hub) and without regard to where a candidate lives (some employees may end up hybrid who live more than 50 miles away but where business needs dictate them to be onsite at a specific location three days per week).

About the Role:

The Individual would be assisting in the efforts to develop “first in line” insights, Key performance indicators, and effectiveness of all vehicle data quality for vehicle data collection and digital/nondigital solutions that are being implemented to help GM achieve their business goal.  The individual is responsible to provide technical expertise to develop analytics that meets the data quality 5 dimensions:

• Accuracy of Data within products/platforms (Example: Mobile app vehicle data)
• Completeness of Data within products/platform 
• Reliability of Data within products/platform 
• Relevance of Data within products/platform 
• Timeliness of delivering Data within products/platform

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical and innovative plans and solutions to application/system related problems that spans multiple platforms and technologies.
• Cutting edge - Telematics / Analysis of real time data transactions that goes cross multiple applications / layers and that tracks vehicle performance. Creating critical operational and performance metrics for high velocity and critical applications that pump in millions of vehicle related transactions every day.
• Simplify complex data processes to provide a simple view to the organization.
• Ensure key data performance metrics are met using the data monitoring and metric tools available to maintain system operations at stable levels
• Architect end to end reporting data solutions spanning platforms of Operational Data Stores (ODS), Data Marts, and Hadoop big data clusters to provide a unified 360-degree view of systems.
• Work on extensive data analytics on the big data platforms using Oracle, Hive/Hadoop, Sqoop, Cognos, Tableau using new and big data methodologies and extensive use of ETL (extract, transform and Load) methods on data out of traditional RBMS systems data to derive insights
• Work with application subject matter expert for vehicle domain data spanning programs that support Smart Vehicle Driving behaviors, Vehicle Heath Diagnostics programs, and other programs that have a frequent touchpoint with the vehicle.
• Closely work with engineering teams to understand vehicle data collection tasks set on vehicles and the profile, size and integrity of the vehicle data elements coming back from the vehicles. Escalate emerging issues to leadership and ensure successful closures (by involving right technical teams.)
• Work and Adapt to both Waterfall/Agile methodologies – Be a part of requirements gathering, technical design, testing strategy, and deploy and provide insights on data flow patterns, required metrics, and platform improvement initiatives.

Additional Job Description

Required Technical Skills/Tools:

• Problem solving skills, strong communication, and presentation skills.
• Familiarity with statistics and ability to explain why a specific model was chosen.
• Understand business / technical process flows.
• Knowledge of Kafka streaming systems and Microservices Architecture
• Understand architectural tenets of clouds ecosystems.
• Understand ETL methodologies across multiple product ecosystems.
• Experience with extraction and loading into Hadoop/Hive.
• Business intelligence and data analysis software — IBM Cognos Impromptu; Tableau, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
• Knowledge and experience with Data base management system software — Apache Hadoop; Oracle PL/SQL; Teradata Database, Apache Cassandra, Apache Hive, NoSQL
• Knowledge of Unix skills – Shell scripting and integration with ORACLE SQL
• Expert in using SQL across Postgres databases, Hadoop/Hive & Oracle systems.

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us 

We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Benefits Overview

The goal of the General Motors total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan incudes, the following benefits, in addition to many others:
• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave for mothers, fathers and adoptive parents;
• Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive), dental, vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family;
• Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement;
• Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values; 
• Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing;
• Discount on GM vehicles for you, your family and friends.

Diversity Information

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.   We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities. GM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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