Data Engineer, Specialist

Vanguard•Malvern, PA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a Data Engineer who can help us modernize and innovate our legacy systems into a cloud-native high-performance environment, enabling speed, agility, and scalability for the future. As a Data Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in redefining how data flows across platforms, ensuring seamless integration and performance in a cutting-edge architecture. What makes this opportunity unique? Modern Tech Stack: Design and implement data replication strategies, CDC pipelines, and data reconciliation frameworks to support production parallel environments and cloud-based data lakes. Innovation in Action: Collaborate on performance tuning, AWS infrastructure setup, and data based integrations, ensuring data integrity and speed across thousands of batch jobs. Future-Ready Architecture: Help build a durable data construct for production parallel runs, enabling analytics and insights in a cloud-native ecosystem.

Requirements

Minimum of eight years data analytics, programming, database administration, or data management experience.
Technical skills (Data background/AWS).
Ability to influence best practices for Data lens moving towards the future
Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.

Nice To Haves

Graduate degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Writes ETL (Extract / Transform / Load) processes, designs database systems and, develops tools for real-time and offline analytic processing.
Troubleshoots software and processes for data consistency and integrity.
Integrates complex and large scale data from a variety of sources for business partners to generate insight and make decisions.
Translates business specifications into design specifications and code.
Responsible for writing complex programs, ad hoc queries, and reports.
Ensures that all code is well structured, includes sufficient documentation, and is easy to maintain and reuse.
Partners with internal clients to gain an expert understanding of business functions and informational needs.
Works closely with other technical and data analytics experts across the business to implement data solutions.
Leads all phases of solution development.
Explains technical considerations at related meetings, including those with internal clients and less experienced team members.
Assesses data quality and tests code thoroughly for accuracy of intended purpose.
Provides data analysis guidance and serves as a technical consultant for the client.
Educates and develops junior data engineers on the team while applying quality control to their work.
Develops data engineering standards and contributes expertise to other data expert teams across Vanguard.
Tests and implements new software releases through regression testing.
Identifies issues and engages with vendors to resolve and elevate software into production.
Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.