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MeridianLink · 5 hours ago

Sr. Data Engineer

MeridianLink is a company seeking a Senior Data Engineer who will design, build, implement, and maintain data processing pipelines for ETL from various data sources. The role focuses on developing scalable solutions for data analysis and collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet business requirements.

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Responsibilities

Senior Data Engineers will design, build, implement, and maintain data processing pipelines for the extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of data from a variety of data sources
Expected to lead the writing of complex SQL queries to support analytics needs
Responsible for developing technical tools and programming that leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big-data techniques to cleanse, organize and transform data and to maintain, defend and update data structures and integrity on an automated basis
Senior Data Engineers will evaluate and recommend tools and technologies for data infrastructure and processing
Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, data analysts, product teams, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements to technical specifications and coded data pipelines
The role will work with tools, languages, data processing frameworks, and databases such as R, Python, SQL, Databricks, Spark, Delta, APIs
Work with structured and unstructured data from a variety of data stores, such as data lakes, relational database management systems, and/or data warehouses
Ability to assess unusual circumstances and use sophisticated analytical and problem-solving techniques to identify the cause
Working with people, processes facing Enterprise a plus, improvement of processes/reduction of costs in the enterprise processes leveraging data is preferable
Ability to enhance relationships and networks with senior internal partners who are not familiar with the subject often requires persuasion
Architect and scale our modern data platform to support real-time and batch processing for financial forecasting, risk analytics, and customer insights
Enforce high standards for data governance, quality, lineage, and compliance
Partner with stakeholders across engineering, finance, sales, and compliance to translate business requirements into reliable data models and workflows
Evaluate emerging technologies and lead POCs that shape the future of our data stack
Champion a culture of security, automation, and continuous delivery in all data workflows

Qualification

PythonSQLApache SparkCloud-based data platformsData orchestration toolsData governanceData securityStructured dataStakeholder collaborationContinuous deliveryProblem-solvingRelationship building

Required

Ability to assess unusual circumstances and use sophisticated analytical and problem-solving techniques to identify the cause
Working with people, processes facing Enterprise a plus, improvement of processes/reduction of costs in the enterprise processes leveraging data is preferable
Ability to enhance relationships and networks with senior internal partners who are not familiar with the subject often requires persuasion
Architect and scale our modern data platform to support real-time and batch processing for financial forecasting, risk analytics, and customer insights
Enforce high standards for data governance, quality, lineage, and compliance
Partner with stakeholders across engineering, finance, sales, and compliance to translate business requirements into reliable data models and workflows
Evaluate emerging technologies and lead POCs that shape the future of our data stack
Champion a culture of security, automation, and continuous delivery in all data workflows
Deep expertise in Python, SQL, and distributed processing frameworks like Apache Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery
Proven experience with cloud-based data platforms (preferably AWS or Azure)
Hands-on experience with data orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt) and data warehouses (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery)
Strong understanding of data security, privacy, and compliance within a financial services context
Experience working with structured and semi-structured data (e.g., Delta, JSON, Parquet, Avro) at scale
Familiarity with modelling datasets in Salesforce, Netsuite and Anaplan to solve business use cases required
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
6-8 years of experience in data engineering, with a strong focus on financial systems on SaaS platforms

Preferred

Previous experience Democratizing data at scale for the enterprise a huge plus

Company

MeridianLink

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MeridianLink is a digital lending platform that helps financial institutions through a configurable platform.

H1B Sponsorship

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2025 (14)
2024 (5)
2023 (1)
2022 (12)
2021 (11)
2020 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$570.51M
2025-08-11Acquired
2024-09-26Post Ipo Secondary· $0.01M
2024-02-07Post Ipo Secondary· $85.5M

Leadership Team

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Larry Katz
Chief Executive Officer
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Elias Olmeta
Chief Financial Officer
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