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Data Engineer I

Clayton

Clayton

Data Science
Maryville, TN, USA
Posted on Mar 11, 2025

Data Engineer I


Position Summary

The Clayton Data Engineering team is responsible for data movement into the Enterprise Data Warehouse, Operational Data Stores, and between operational systems on-prem and on the public cloud such as AWS. The Data Engineer I will assist in the development of advanced data infrastructure solutions that present information for decision making, sourcing data from a variety of sources within and outside of the Clayton organization. The Data Engineer I will collaborate with and learn from motivated team members with various backgrounds and areas of expertise.


About The Team
The Clayton Data Engineering team works in an agile/scrum environment from a backlog of work requests generated by multiple Clayton business units and analytics teams. The team designs, develops, and implements database architecture and data pipeline processes for migration/transformation of data into the data warehouse for reporting and analytical use. The team monitors these processes, troubleshoots, and improves load performance.


Primary Responsibilities
• Translate stakeholder requirements into technical specifications that can be used for development and break down technical complexities so that they can be easily understood by business units and end users.
• Design, develop, and implement database architecture and data pipeline processes for
migration/transformation of data into the data warehouse for reporting and analytical use.
• Participate in team code reviews, sprint planning and retrospectives, script cut, and CI/CD build and deploy

processes.


Primary Qualifications
• Bachelor or associate degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or Information Management.
• Demonstrates proficiency in a variety of the field’s concepts, practices, and procedures
• Relies on experience and judgement to plan and accomplish goals
• Enjoys working with people and collaborates effectively with team members
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills and the ability to interact with a diverse group
of team members, including executives, managers, IT professionals, and subject matter experts
• Great attitude towards learning new platforms and technology stack, and taking on new tasks


Desired Skills
• Has strong quantitative and analytics problem-solving skills
• Experience in JIRA and Agile Methodology preferred, but not required
• 1-3 years of experience supporting large scale, mission-critical data pipelines using ETL tools such as SSIS, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, or StarQuest
• 1-3 years of experience with Microsoft SQL Server or Postgres database platforms
• 1-3 years SQL experience and successful completion of a technical SQL assessment in the interview process
• Design, implement and maintain basic data models
• Experience in one programming language such as C# and Python
• Understanding of version-control, continuous integration, and change management
• Have a sound understanding of data modeling, assessing quality of data, and data cleansing principles and techniques
• Understanding of performance testing and optimization techniques
• Familiar with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, GCP



Why Clayton Homes?
Founded in 1956, Clayton is a Berkshire Hathaway Company committed to opening doors to a better life and Building Happyness® through homeownership. Through its family of brands, Clayton builds, sells, finances, and ensures traditional site-built homes and off-site built housing – including modular homes, manufactured homes, CrossMod™ homes, tiny homes, college dormitories, military barracks, and apartments. Corporate headquarters is located in the Knoxville, Tennessee area, specifically, Maryville, Tennessee. Clayton is the recipient of numerous industry awards
including 2019 Builder of the Year and ranks as the #2 builder of homes in the U.S. by units sold. Our site-built division, Clayton Properties Group, is the 8th largest site builder in the U.S. We achieve our results through the strength of our people and have been recognized on the 2021 Forbes Best Employers for Diversity and 2021 Forbes America’s Best Employers Lists. To learn more about Clayton Homes, got to: https://www.claytonhomes.com

Benefits
• Competitive benefits including 401(k) with 100% company match of the first 4%; medical, dental and vision plans; paid time off days and holidays.
• Quarterly bonus program.
• Forbes lists: America’s Best Employers, America’s Employers by State, Best Employers for Diversity, Best employers for Women.
• Recognized as one of East Tennessee’s top technology workplaces.
• Wellness programs that focus on emotional, social, spiritual, intellectual, environmental, physical, and financial well-being.
• Onsite fitness facility with full gym, workout classes, volleyball and basketball, ping-pong, and disc golf course.
• Paid Time Off for Volunteer work.

Why Clayton Homes:
• Consistently striving vertically integrated Berkshire Hathaway company
• One of America’s largest home builders and leader in housing
• Forbes lists: America’s Best Employers, America’s Employers by State, Best
Employers for Diversity, Best Employers for Women
• Quarterly profit share bonus program
• Onsite gym with variety of classes, wellness, professional and personal
development programs and much more!
Clayton is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Clayton is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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