Senior Data Platform Engineer

About the Team:

The Data & Analytics team at DriveWealth creates data products that provide access to relevant data and insights to help customers succeed.  We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join a growing data platform team within the data & analytics department.  Data Engineering focuses on creating, maintaining, and monitoring data pipelines, including ingestion and broader data services, products, and processes used by internal partners and external customers. 

The ideal candidate thrives working closely with analytics engineers, product managers, and internal stakeholders to interpret and clarify requirements, architect and build efficient data processing services, and ideate end-to-end data products to help customers achieve their goals. The candidate should be excited about joining a team to shape the direction of data and analytics at DriveWealth. This means balancing competing priorities and laying the groundwork for scale while building top-tier data products. 

What You’ll Do:

• Build and maintain data pipelines, including replication, batch, and streaming processes.
• Ensuring consistent, accurate output is delivered quickly through efficient coding with testing and verification.
• Work with data product managers and business partners to ensure requirements can translate into data engineering solutions, anticipating challenges to provide suggestions proactively
• Work to establish an open and scalable data culture through documentation, constructive code reviews, and clear explanations of priorities and pain points.
• Provide thought leadership, best practices on architecture and tooling, and standards for designing and implementing scalable data solutions 
• Provide mentorship and guidance to data engineers.
• Work with the broader data & analytics team to ideate, build, and maintain “self-service” data products that enable data and analytics usage (tables, reports, dashboards, and Python notebooks), stepping in to help deliver and provide guidance wherever necessary and possible.

What You’ll Need:

• 5+ years of experience solving data problems with business partners
• Experience working within larger data team: CI/CD process leveraging GitHub and AGILE development where possible
• Working knowledge of a modern orchestration platform such as DBT, Airflow, etc.
• Fluent in Python, SQL, PySpark, Spark SQL, Databricks, AWS
• Experience with Terraform (AWS, Databricks), Shell Scripting, GIT, Databricks CLI, and other Command Line Tools
• Experience with Agile Software Development, Event Drive Architecture, Customer Facing Data Solutions and information sharing strategies
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent program
• Bonus points for:
  • FinTech or stock market experience
  • Familiarity with GDPR OR FINRA OR other regulations

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. DriveWealth is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.