Description

The Enterprise Data Enablement is looking for a Principal Data Engineer who can drive design, development, and maintenance of secure, scalable, and efficient data pipelines and platforms. The Principal Data Engineer will build and deploy data solutions for various financial consumer business domains by creating new/leveraging existing data framework capabilities to acquire, transform, stream, and integrate data. This colleague will drive innovative data engineering solutions and have the ability to lead and mentor a team of data engineers.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Architect, build, and maintain reliable, efficient, and scalable data pipelines to acquire, transform, and store large datasets.
• Build robust data pipelines to collect, process, and compute different metrics from various financial sources, adhering to quality and development standards.
• Design application architecture/technical design and articulate the data frameworks to team members and data engineers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members as necessary and come up with optimal solutions that meet data demands.
• Deploy high-performing, quality/bug-free code in production.
• Have a strong understanding of database design principles, data modeling techniques, and the ability to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Develop and optimize data models to support analytics, reporting, and machine learning use cases.
• Drive technical requirements of Data Frameworks and build solutions to meet them.
• Identify opportunities to expand the frameworks as well as create new frameworks that can be built once and reused across multiple use cases.
• Troubleshoot and resolve any data-related issues in a timely manner.
• Execute unit tests of data populated in target data containers, validate expected results, and ensure quality and accuracy. Coordinate with business users for User Acceptance Testing and with the Operations team for code deployment to upper environments.
• Follow change management team stipulations on path to production requirements and strictly adhere to compliance and regulatory needs.

Required Skills/Experience:

• At least 8-10 years of experience in the technologies listed below.
• Working experience with streaming capabilities such as Apache Spark, Beam, Flink.
• Working experience with message brokers/messaging platforms such as Apache Kafka.
• Proven track record of working with microservices and batch sources.
• Hands-on experience in programming languages Java and/or Scala.
• Excellent skills in SQL Development.
• Strong knowledge of relational (Redshift, Postgres, SnowFlake) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines and version control systems like Bitbucket, Git.
• Working experience with ETL Development tools like Talend or Data Stage would be a plus.
• Working experience with Java Spring Boot, React, TypeScript, Angular for UI would be a plus.
• Deep understanding of Cloud offerings for Data processing (AWS would be a plus).
• Experience with AWS and Azure with data-focused services.

Education, Certifications, and/or Other Professional Credentials:

• BS/Engineering in Computer Science or any technology-related degree.

Hours and Work Schedule

Hours per Week: 40

Work Schedule: Monday through Friday

Some job boards have started using jobseeker-reported data to estimate salary ranges for roles. If you apply and qualify for this role, a recruiter will discuss accurate pay guidance.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens), provides equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability, or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, transgendered and transitioning individuals, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and where all are expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on experience, performance, and ability. We perform our best so we can do more for our customers, colleagues, communities, and shareholders.