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Sr Data Engineer

Posted Date:  Aug 3, 2026
Requisition Number:  129880

Why Hershey:

At The Hershey Company, our culture is rooted in purpose and inspired by Milton Hershey’s enduring vision that business should create opportunity for others. Through our commitment to corporate philanthropy, we create positive impact by supporting communities, helping children thrive, and operating as a business for good. This includes our deep and long standing partnership with Milton Hershey School, where we invest in education, workforce readiness, and hands on engagement to help students succeed beyond the classroom. Supported by strategic grantmaking, product donations, cross brand collaboration, and strong employee volunteerism, Hershey offers a place to work where making a difference—locally and globally—is part of how we do business every day.

About The Hershey Company

The Hershey Company is an industry-leading snacks company known for making more moments of goodness through its iconic brands. With a strong portfolio across chocolate, confectionery, and salty snacks, Hershey delights consumers every day. Our beloved brands include Hershey’s, Reese’s, KitKat®, Dots Pretzels, Lesser Evil, Jolly Rancher, Twizzlers, Ice Breakers, and more.
 
At Hershey, we are committed to making a meaningful difference in the communities where we live, work, and do business. This commitment originated with our founder, Milton Hershey, and continues to shape who we are today.
 
Guided by our employee value proposition, Lead Today. Create Tomorrow, we empower our people to drive impact now while shaping what comes next. Our One Hershey mindset brings teams together across functions, geographies, and businesses, enabling us to operate with speed, collaboration, and shared purpose.
 
The Hershey Company is proud to be recognized as a top employer in the United States, reflecting our commitment to our people, culture, and purpose.

How will you fit in the big picture?

As a Sr Data Engineer, you will play a key role in advancing Hershey’s enterprise data strategy by building scalable, governed, and reusable data products that power analytics, reporting, and AI solutions across the business. This is a highly autonomous, hands-on engineering role where you will take ownership of data pipelines, datasets, and features from design through deployment.
 
Working closely with Product Managers, Architects, Platform Engineering, Data Operations, and business stakeholders, you will transform business requirements into reliable technical solutions using modern cloud-native technologies including Azure and Databricks. Your work will help improve data quality, accessibility, consistency, and trust across Hershey’s enterprise data ecosystem.

What will you do?

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines using Azure, Databricks, Python, and SQL.Develop curated, dimensional, and semantic data models that support analytics, reporting, and AI use cases.
  • Translate business requirements into technical designs, user stories, and acceptance criteria in partnership with Product Managers.
  • Apply best practices for performance, reliability, security, scalability, and cost optimization.
  • Implement modern data engineering patterns including Delta Lake, medallion architecture, orchestration frameworks, and reusable pipeline components.
  • Embed governance-by-design through metadata management, lineage, documentation, automated data quality checks, and certification processes.
  • Support and troubleshoot production data pipelines while driving operational excellence and continuous improvement.
  • Collaborate with domain teams to validate business definitions and ensure data products meet stakeholder needs.
  • Partner with Platform Engineering to enhance frameworks, standards, automation, and platform capabilities.

Minimum Education & Requirements

Experience:

  • 3+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, or a related field, aligned with Hershey's experience guidelines for senior individual contributor levels.
  • Hands-on experience building scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines in cloud-native environments, preferably Azure and Databricks.
  • Strong experience with Python, SQL, ETL/ELT development, distributed processing, workflow optimization, APIs, automation, and source control.
  • Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions while collaborating across product, engineering, and business teams.
  • Experience working with relational and NoSQL data stores such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with Delta Lake, medallion architecture, orchestration frameworks, and reusable pipeline design patterns.
  • Experience implementing data governance practices, automated data quality monitoring, metadata management, lineage, cataloging, and documentation.
  • Experience building curated, dimensional, or semantic models supporting analytics, reporting, and AI solutions.
  • Experience within consumer packaged goods (CPG), retail, manufacturing, supply chain, consulting, or modern data platform organizations.

Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related technical field.

Benefits and Perks

At Hershey, we offer competitive pay and a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your wellbeing, financial security, and life outside of work.
  • Health & Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus wellness programs that support your physical and mental health
  • Financial Security: Competitive pay, annual incentive opportunities, and a 401(k) with company match
  • Time Off & Flexibility: Paid time off, company holidays, and flexible ways of working where applicable
  • Growth & Development: Career development programs, learning opportunities, and internal mobility
Benefits may vary based on role, location, and eligibility.

 

The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The policy of The Hershey Company is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other categories protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
 
The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veterans.  

You may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our online application process as a result of a disability.
You can request an accommodation via phone or email.  

To request an accommodation via phone, please call +1 877-804-1794 and leave a voicemail with your contact information.  You may also email a request for accommodation to ApplicationHelp@hersheys.com. Please be sure to include “Accommodation Needed” in the subject line. This will ensure that your email is routed to the appropriate contact who will handle your request.

 

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