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.