Data Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a Data Engineer to design and build scalable data pipelines and platforms using cloud technologies. You will work on enterprise data infrastructure projects across financial services, owning end-to-end data solutions from ingestion through analytics serving. This role requires strong technical depth and the ability to collaborate across teams to deliver high-quality, governed data solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design & build data pipelines - ETL/ELT processes, data transformations, real-time streaming
• Architect data platforms - design schemas, optimize performance, ensure scalability
• Implement data governance - manage access control, data quality checks, metadata tracking
• Support banking/financial use cases - work on transaction data, customer analytics, risk reporting
• Optimize performance & costs - tune queries, manage cloud resources, balance speed vs. cost
• Collaborate with teams - work with analysts, data scientists, DBAs, and architects
• Document & share knowledge - write runbooks, design docs, and best-practice guides

Required Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency in:Snowflake OR Databricks - production experience with complex queries, performance tuningData Modeling - design normalized/dimensional schemas for analyticsCloudera OR Teradata - experience with at least one legacy/on-premises platform
• 5+ years in data engineering roles
• Strong SQL - write efficient, optimized queries
• Python or Scala - develop data transformations and automation
• Banking or financial services data experience - familiarity with regulatory requirements (AML, reporting)

Recommended Skills

• Experience with both a cloud platform (Snowflake/Databricks) AND a traditional warehouse (Cloudera/Teradata)
• Apache Spark - distributed processing, optimization
• Data governance tools - custom metadata systems, data catalogs
• Cloud platforms - AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Real-time data - streaming pipelines, Kafka, Flink
• Agile & collaborative working environment

What We're Looking For

• Hands-on builder - you've shipped multiple production pipelines
• Detail-oriented - cares about data quality, documentation, and maintainability
• Curious learner - stays current with data engineering trends
• Problem solver - debugs performance issues and proposes elegant solutions
• Team player - collaborates well, asks questions, shares knowledge