Principal Data/Software Engineer

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia•Boston, MA

23h

About The Position

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions. FRFS is undergoing a strategic transformation to become a national, enterprise-focused organization, aiming to quickly meet marketplace needs, provide a unified customer experience, and create career growth opportunities. This position is part of the mission-critical FedNow Service, a new interbank 24x7x365 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service with integrated clearing functionality, transforming the U.S. payments landscape. The role is for a top-level technical expert in applications systems analysis and programming, responsible for software design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation. This individual possesses full technical knowledge of all phases of applications systems analysis and development, provides technical leadership on complex projects, and interacts regularly with internal project teams and work groups. The work is highly advanced and requires minimal supervision. This job does not have any direct reports. The ideal candidate has an appetite to learn and a passion for technology, innovation, and developing new skills on evolving technologies.

Requirements

8+ years of implementing data-intensive solutions using agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean etc ).
4+ years working with AWS cloud-based platforms in an enterprise environment.
Experience designing and building performant, resilient big data solutions.
Deep expertise in programming languages used in data engineering such as Python and Java.
Experience developing high performance, high volume, highly available (24/7/365) environments
Experience with Agile software engineering (Scrum, Kanban, Lean etc )
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Logistics
Deep expertise in Python and Java and proficient knowledge of programming languages (JavaScript, XML, JSON, HTML, CSS etc.)
Proficient knowledge of operating systems (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Proficient knowledge of database development (SQL, Oracle, DB2)
Experience with AWS services, and integrating them into an application
Experience with leading edge Cloud technologies, such as Kafka, in-memory and NoSQL databases, messaging platforms, memcache etc).
Demonstrates independent thinking and decision-making abilities
Demonstrates excellent written and oral communication abilities
Proficient knowledge of cloud security for application development and delivery
Advanced knowledge of object-oriented programming
Infrastructure as Code (IAC); Terraform

Nice To Haves

Experience with API Development and consumption and microservices architecture
Experience with agile development methodology
Knowledge of technology project and secure coding standards
Strong interpersonal, teamwork and negotiation skills
Strong customer service skills
Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
Familiarity with usability techniques and best practices

Responsibilities

Serves as a Principal Data Engineer: to design, develop and implement end-to-end data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and distribution, supporting both batch and streaming workloads in accordance with FedNow and Fed Standards.
Develops software solutions that are reusable, well-documented, and optimized for Analytics, BI, and AI/ML consumers.
Implements and manages modern data lake and Lakehouse architectures, including Apache Iceberg table formats.
Optimizes data platforms for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and reliability.
Collaborates closely with architects, product managers, analytics teams, and platform engineers to align data solutions with business needs.
Defines and enforces data quality standards, implementing automated validation and monitoring.
In addition to being able to engineer across numerous areas of technology, you’ll serve as subject matter expert in one or more areas
Trains and consults cross functionally within the organization on troubleshooting/resolving highly complex and/or highly time critical problems
Collaborates with analysts as part of an integrated Agile team to define user requirements and conduct design review for the development of complex and innovative cloud applications using modern internet-scale technologies and Serverless architecture in Cloud
Demonstrates skill dexterity; seeking to continuously adapt and employ new technical skills alongside proven staples
Ensures that the quality of software developed, maintained and enhanced in-house and installed into production is sufficient to prevent the occurrence of catastrophic defects that cause the customer significant problems, missed deadlines, or interruption to the production environment
Ensure compliance with Fed policies, procedures and standards
Provides primary or backup production support for applications and components, including but not limited to timely resolution to production problems and processing issues