AgWest Farm Credit is a member-owned financial cooperative that provides financing and related services to various agricultural sectors. They are seeking a Data Operations Analyst to support their data management department, ensuring data availability and operational support for their modern data platform.
Responsibilities
- Develop, monitor, and maintain overnight and scheduled data feeds to ensure timely, accurate, and reliable data availability across the platform
- Coordinate with overnight operational support coverage team regarding activities and events to ensure consistent service
- Provide clear, timely incident communication to stakeholders, including issue status, impact, resolution progress, and post‑incident follow‑up
- Support cloud resources, including configuration, monitoring, and ongoing maintenance of Azure services to support data platform operations
- Administer and maintain data governance tools to support data quality, lineage, cataloging, and access controls across the data platform
- Manage data platform access, permissions, and user provisioning, including regular audits to ensure compliance with security, governance, and organizational policy
- Coordinate with third party vendors on work tasks, troubleshooting, and updates
- Promote data to production and other environments through mature operational process, collecting required artifacts to maintain the trust and integrity of the data platform
- Respond to data processing incidents that may require adjustments to code, processes, or data handling to complete data collection
- Update documentation for the data platform, its processes, and its features
- Provide cost management for Azure resources and sunsets unneeded components
- Perform all duties and maintain all standards in accordance with company policies, procedures, and internal controls
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in information technology or related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Generally requires one to three years' technical experience in computer operations or related field
- Experience managing pipeline orchestration and ETL processes
- Experience using DevOps for code management and deployment
- Ability to read, modify, and write SQL statements to query databases
- Experience creating and configuring cloud infrastructure, cloud resources, and networking
- Intellectual curiosity and ability to structure and solve problems
- Experience with Databricks and Unity Catalog
- Experience with Microsoft Azure creating, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting resources including storage accounts, key vaults, databases, and networking
- Experience with Data Governance tools to manage data quality, data lineage, and data catalogs
- Experience managing and utilizing Azure DevOps for code deployment
- Experience with Terraform for deploying infrastructure
- Experience reading, modifying, and creating python code
- Working knowledge of Microsoft data products
- Experience writing and maintaining technical documentation including diagrams
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Basic term life and AD&D insurance (fully paid for by the company)
- Paid days off annually: 15 vacation*, 15 sick, 12 holidays and 3 volunteer
- 401(k) plan (6% match plus 3% employer contribution)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Wellness Program
- Jeans are welcome at work every day at AgWest!
- Vacation accrual rates increase with tenure.
Company Overview
- AgWest Farm Credit provides agricultural lender and crop insurance services to farmers, ranchers, and timber harvesters. It was founded in 1916, and is headquartered in Spokane, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://agwestfc.com.