A financial firm is looking for a
Data Engineer to join their team in Jersey City, NJ.
Compensation: $115K
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop next generation Client and Corporate applications analytics platforms
- Work with business partners and as analysts to understand the data requirements, analyze & design the necessary data flows and database design
- Developing systems for downloading data from various internal and external sources
- Developing robust quality control processing, monitoring and workflow dashboards
- Integration of risk and quantitative models
- Simplification and automation of existing manual processes
- Provide support for overnight batch jobs
- Work with a team of frontend and backend engineers, product managers and analysts
Qualifications:
- A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or related work experience
- 5+ years of experience programming in SQL queries, stored procedures, query optimization performance tuning (Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL or Oracle)
- 4+ years of experience in Python
- 3+ years of hands-on data architecture and data modelling experience
- 2+ years of Core Java experience
- 2+ years of experience building highly scalable data solutions using Snowflake, Hadoop, Spark, Databricks
- 2+ years of experience working in cloud environments (AWS and/or Azure)
- Create and maintain Conceptual, Logical and Physical data models
- Experience in architecting, designing, integrating, and understanding the characteristics and specificities of data-intensive systems
- Identify opportunities to reuse data and reduce redundancy across the enterprise
- Experience with Git/GitHub
- Knowledge with DevOps tools like DevOps - Jira, Confluence and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins)
Required Skills:
- Strong analytical skills
- Must be willing to take full ownership of projects, covering discovery, analysis, technical design and implementation, testing, and deployment tasks
- Good communication skills and be comfortable working closely with senior business partners, product owners and in cross-functional teams
- A strong desire to document and share work done to aid in long term support
- Must be a self-starter, a dependable partner, and team player
Preferred Skills:
- Experience working in the finance industry
- Experience with market data vendors - Bloomberg, Markit, ICE/Client, Client, Intex, KBRA
- Experience working on distributed system and handling & processing of large-scale data (trades, risk, market data etc.)