U.S. Bank · 3 hours ago
Lead Data Engineer
Tempe, AZ
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$120K/yr - $141K/yr
7+ years expU.S. Bank is on a journey to help customers and businesses make better financial decisions. They are seeking a Lead Data Engineer to work on big data compilation projects, maintain dataset integrity, and improve operational efficiency through data management and optimization.
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Responsibilities
Develop and maintain data pipelines to ingest, process, and store financial data from various sources (internal and external)
Integrate structured and unstructured data from multiple systems such as accounting software, trading platforms, financial databases, and market feeds
Build and optimize relational and non-relational databases (e.g., SQL, NoSQL) to store financial data
Ensure efficient querying and retrieval of financial data to support reporting and analytics
Implement data quality checks to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and completeness
Establish and enforce data governance policies to ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards (e.g., GDPR, SOX)
Work with data scientists, financial analysts, and business intelligence teams to understand data needs and ensure data is accessible and usable for analysis
Collaborate with software engineers and IT teams to ensure seamless integration with other business systems
Automate repetitive data processing tasks to improve operational efficiency
Continuously monitor and improve the performance of data pipelines and systems to handle large volumes of financial data
Provide financial data to support the generation of reports, dashboards, and other visualizations
Work with finance teams to ensure the data is structured for effective analysis and decision-making
Ensure that all financial data is stored securely, adhering to relevant security and privacy standards
Monitor and implement appropriate access controls to sensitive financial information
Troubleshoot issues related to data pipelines, databases, and data integrity
Provide support for resolving data-related issues in financial applications or reporting systems
Manages the design, development, maintenance, upkeep, safety, and integrity of databases
Conducts audits and initiates preventative and corrective actions
Manages the coordination and facilitates the design implementation and control of data management concepts and techniques
Approves and maintains database analyses and development policies, standards, and procedures
Analyzes short and long term requirements for Database Administrator to meet current and future business needs
Allocates appropriate database resources to ensure that projects are completed within committed time and budget and are integrated with other database systems
Works with software and hardware vendors to analyze, recommend, and purchase Database tools, products, and services
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
At least 7 years experience with tools, facilities and techniques for managing and administering data
Proficiency in programming languages like Python, SQL, or Scala
Preferred
Working experience in application development tools
Working experience in information management
Working experience in data warehousing
Working experience in data movement tools
Strong experience with On-Prem and Cloud data warehouse solutions (e.g., Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, RDS, Oracle, MS SQL)
Familiarity with data pipeline tools (e.g., Apache Kafka, Airflow, ETL frameworks)
Knowledge of cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
Relational databases
Dataset Architecture and design - best practices
Extensive experience in application delivery process
Extensive experience in IT environment
Benefits
Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
Basic term and optional term life insurance
Short-term and long-term disability
Pregnancy disability and parental leave
401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
Adoption assistance
Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
Company
U.S. Bank
At U.S.
10001+ employees
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$991MKey Investors
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2023-09-29Post Ipo Debt· $55M
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John C Stern
CFO
Daniel Crozier
Senior Vice President Operations
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