Principal Data Engineer

Early Warning® • San Francisco, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

This position is a hands-on, individual contributor technical leader involved in setting the standards ensuring excellence in quality of outputs across multiple teams. Responsible for partnering with cross functional teams and providing input to a broad range of initiatives. A technical expert that is continuously learning and keeping abreast of new technologies and industry best practices and finding ways to bring those practices into the engineering organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field.
• Typically 15 or more years of experience in designing and developing complex software projects with at least eight or more years in FinTech domain.
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams to create technical solutions.
• Effective communicator with exceptional public speaking skills.
• Comfortable presenting to all levels within the company.
• Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN etc) and DevOps practices
• Proven track record designing and building complex end-to-end systems (full stack developer)
• Hands-on experience in designing and developing using the one or more of the following technologies Java RESTful Web Services (Java, J2EE, JUnit, and Tomcat.)
• Experience in Microservices Architecture.
• Open Source Frameworks - Spring boot, Spring Core
• Messaging frameworks such as Kafka, Tibco EMS or JMS
• Oracle PL/SQL / Sql Server
• JavaScript and scripting frameworks (JQuery, AngularJS)
• Big Data (Cloudera / S3), AI/ML Model development lifecycle (feature engineering & model operationization use of industry frameworks like PyCharm / SciKit / Tensorflow, using python, pySpark, Spark), BI Reporting, Python
• Hands-on experience in test automation at various levels of testing (unit, component, integration and functional tests).
• Proven experience in OOA/OOD.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementation including GIT, Chef,Maven, Jenkins etc
• Solid understanding of modern Cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud or MS Azure.
• Experience of working with code repositories (e.g. Git, SVN), bug tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Bugzilla) and Wikis (e.g. Confluence)
• Background and drug screen.

Nice To Haves

• M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or another technical field
• Knowledge of Splunk, Altiris &Zabbix
• Hands-on Experience in working with AWS Cloud 2.0
• Experience with various Database design and architectures
• Expertise in TerraForm and/or other cloud orchestration technologies
• Experience with Monitoring & Alerting systems like AppDynamics
• Experience with other computer languages like C#, Ruby, Python, and PHP
• Knowledge of ACH/EFT
• Knowledge of real time payment networks(RTP, FedNow)
• Experience with Data Robot, H2O, Sagemaker

Responsibilities

• Partners with product management to craft product strategy, create product descriptions and ensure alignment to technology roadmaps.
• Be a thought leader: a senior point of expertise on Data Engineering, Data Science, Business Intelligence, software engineering issues, industry trends and developing technologies.
• Be a role model to others on the team.
• Coach and mentor team members.
• Takes ownership for creating technical product design and architecture.
• Creates and conducts presentations for small-to-medium size groups.
• Works closely with customers to understand their needs and create a partnership for making Early Warning products better.
• Partners with software engineering, product, and architecture to shape engineering approaches, share knowledge and experience.
• Develop, scope and shape a departmental-wide technical vision for the future.
• Collaborate and build relationships cross-functionally to influence and motivate others; serve as an internal catalyst for progressive, strategic and successful change management.
• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Benefits

• Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
• Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal