Sr Data Engineer

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

3+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, or a related field, aligned with Hershey's