At Rhodes, our core purpose is to enhance the lives of our customers and team through building communities. We specialize in developing master planned communities and construction of high quality, energy efficient homes across the Rio Grande Valley. Since 2019, Esperanza Homes, a Rhodes Company, ranked nationally on the Top 200 Builders List and is on an aggressive growth trajectory to make the Top 100 Builders list while serving more communities across South Texas.

Rhodes was founded in the early 1990’s as a land acquisition and holding company. In 2006, the company shifted gears and ventured into residential/commercial land development and home building with the formation of Esperanza Homes. Rhodes Enterprises has grown to one of the largest developers of residential, commercial and master planned communities in the Rio Grande Valley. For more than a decade, we have grown to serve the communities of Mission, Donna, McAllen, Edinburg and Brownsville. We are passionate about our customers, building exceptional homes, our team and the communities where we live, work and serve.  

When you choose to work at Rhodes, you are part of a passionate and high performing Team! You will work alongside team members who set and reach ambitious goals every day and are excited to continue to grow and build communities.

Benefits of being a part of our Team include: 

• Competitive Compensation including Bonus & Profit-Sharing Programs
• Health Care - Medical/Dental/Vision/Prescription Drug Coverage
• Employer Paid Health Reimbursement Account for Medically Enrolled Staff
• 401(k) with Company Matching Contributions
• Disability Programs
• Employee & Dependent Life Insurance
• Vacation & Company Holidays
• Employee Home Purchase Rebate Program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Role Mission: As a Data Engineer at Rhodes, you'll transform raw data into actionable intelligence, driving key business decisions that shape the company's strategic direction. Reporting to the Director of Data and IT, you'll develop advanced machine learning models and statistical analyses to uncover valuable insights from complex datasets. You'll automate data pipelines, translate business questions into data science solutions, and create sophisticated visualizations to communicate findings effectively. By collaborating across teams and staying current with cutting-edge techniques, you'll identify opportunities for data-driven improvements and predictive analytics. Your work will empower leaders to make faster, more informed decisions, propelling Rhodes towards innovation and market leadership in its data-driven transformation.

Measured Performance Goals:

• 90% Projects Completed on Time
• 90% Reports Delivered on Time 
• 95% Staff Satisfaction Rate (Send a survey to people we have partnered with over quarter)
• 87% Help Desk Tickets Completed on time for Urgent Tickets 

Accountabilities:

Project Management:

• Create project plans for each project request
• Provide updates for project champion and Director of Data and IT
• Deploy projects across the organization from individuals to org-wide deployments
• Reports
• Conduct analyses to drive valuable business insights, using analytics tools, Python, and SQL to access and manipulate multivariate data
• Complete reports for the reporting calendar on time
• Provide ad-hoc analysis support to identify trends that drive business performance
• Communicate updates on report requests
• Maintain an inventory/documentation of all reports created

Dashboards:

• Build data visualizations and multi-faceted dashboards that convey key performance metrics, significant trends, and relationships across multiple data sources within the content domain
• Ideate and develop new metrics and analytical approaches, measuring content performance for both tactical and strategic decision-making
• Partner with leaders to develop dashboards for their departments
• Provide support & maintenance to dashboards in Qlik
• Maintain an inventory/documentation of all dashboards created

Storytelling:

• Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns using multiple information sources
• Effectively communicate results through compelling data storytelling across the organization

Data Engineering:

• Write code to create custom data pipelines from third-party systems for ETL into the data warehouse.
• Ensure data governance is incorporated into the development of visualizations
• Design and implement robust data models utilizing our data warehouse to support advanced analytics and facilitate insights generation through our business intelligence platform.
• Develop data pipelines to efficiently process and prepare large datasets for model training and inference

Machine Learning:

• Implement and fine-tune machine learning models using established frameworks and libraries to solve complex business problems
• Select and apply appropriate pre-built machine learning algorithms and tools to analyze large datasets and extract meaningful insights
• Optimize model performance through hyperparameter tuning, feature engineering, and data preprocessing techniques
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into machine learning solutions

Lives Rhodes Core Values:

• Act with Integrity, No Exceptions - believes there is no such thing as compromise when it comes to acting with integrity in everything you do. 
• Honor our Team - honors team members as individuals and professionals, no exceptions. 
• Never Be Satisfied -continuously looks for ways to improve every aspect of our business
• Best in Class Customer Experience -provide a best-in-class customer experience – every time, with every customer
• Community Leadership – takes pride in actively engaging in the communities we serve, making them better for our future. 

Embodies Characteristics of the Rhodes Team 

• Believes and is committed to our purpose to enhance the lives of our customers and our team through building communities
• Is driven by outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
• Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change
• Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization
• Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes

Supervisory Responsibilities:

-None

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Experience using Business Intelligence tools such as Qlik Sense
• Experience with Python programming language
• Proficient in all Microsoft Office Applications as well as have savvy computer skills
• Advanced Excel and reporting skills
• Strong in communication skills both oral and written as well as strong in organization skills
• Deadline driven and organized
• Customer service oriented 
• Understand the need to be flexible and prioritize tasks in order to meet deadlines

Preferred Qualifications, Knowledge, and Skills:

• Master’s Degree
• Experience implementing machine learning models and statistical analyses to solve business problems and drive decision-making
• Experience with Snowflake support analytical and operational needs

FLSA Status: Exempt

Essential Functions (Mental/Physical/Environmental Requirements):

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member with or without reasonable accommodations, to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 

• Report to office daily and adhere to schedule
• Ability to oversee direct reports daily and provide guidance as needed
• Ability to access, input, and retrieve information from a computer and/or electronic device
• Ability to have face to face conversations with customers, co-workers and manager
• Ability to sit or stand for long periods of time and move around work environment as needed
• Ability to operate a motor vehicle