Senior Data Engineer

Prudential Financial; Letterkenny; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Prudential Financial in Ireland seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize data pipelines and storage solutions. You will collaborate with architects, data scientists, and analysts to deliver scalable platforms and analytic capabilities that support business decisions.

The role emphasizes modern data engineering practices, testing, and continuous improvement, with opportunities to apply Python, SQL, Spark, and AWS in a fast‑moving financial services environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or related field.
• Experience with SDLC and DevOps practices.
• Strong problem solving and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to learn new skills and technologies quickly.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize data pipelines and storage systems with modern design patterns.
• Develop high quality, well documented code and adhere to standards.
• Conduct complex data analysis and prepare data for modeling.
• Collaborate with analysts, scientists and architects on data projects.
• Write tests and automate quality checks; contribute to learning and innovation.
• Work on complex problems requiring deep data evaluation.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark

Data Modeling

ETL

DevOps

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

AWS

Airflow

Snowflake

Tableau

Power BI

Kinesis

Job description

Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability and efficiency? The Global Technology team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA! When you join our organization at Prudential, you’ll unlock an exciting and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions.

Your Team & Role

As a Senior Data Engineer on/in, you will partner with talented architects, infrastructure engineers, machine learning engineers, data scientists and data analysts to improve. You will analyze, design, develop, test, and perform ongoing maintenance to build high quality data pipelines that drive platform delivery. You will implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to applied experience, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• Build and optimize data pipelines, logic and storage systems with latest coding practices and industry standards and modern design patterns and architectural principles; actively code and execute against the roadmap
• Develop high quality, well documented and efficient code adhering to all applicable Prudential standards
• Conduct complex data analysis and report on results, prepare data for prescriptive and predictive modeling, combine raw information from different sources
• Collaborate with data analysts, scientists, and architects on data projects to enhance data acquisition, transformation, organization processes, data reliability, efficiency, and quality
• Write unit, integration tests and functional automation, researching problems discovered by quality assurance or product support, developing solutions to address the problems
• Bring an applied understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, begin to identify opportunities to provide input to the team and coach others, and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day
• Work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors
• Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, R, SQL, Java, Scala, Pyspark/Apache Spark, Shell scripting

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields

• Experience in working with DevOps automation tools & practices; Knowledge of full software development life cycle (SDLC)

• Leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization

• Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company’s business

• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges

• Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills; enjoy learning new skills!

• Applied experience with several of the following:

  • Programming Language: Python, R, SQL, Java, Scala, Pyspark/Apache Spark, Shell scripting
  • Data Ingestion, Integration & Transformation: Moving data from multiple sources, formats, and volumes to analytics platforms through various tools. Preparing data for further analysis; transforming and mapping raw data to generate insights and wrangling data through tools.
  • Database Management System: Storing, organizing, managing, and delivering data using relational DBs, NoSQL DBs, Graph DBs, and data warehouse technologies including AWS Redshift and Snowflake
  • Database tools: Data architecture to store, organize, and manage data. Experience with SQL and NoSQL based databases for storage and processing of structured, semi-structured & unstructured data.
    • Real-Time Analytics: Spark, Kinesis Data Streams
    • Data Buffering: Kinesis, Kafka
    • Workflow Orchestration: Airflow, AppFlow, Austosys, Cloudwatch, Splunk
    • Data Visualization: Tableau, Power BI, MS Excel
  • Data Lakes & Warehousing: Building Data Models, Data Lakes and Data Warehousing
  • Data Protection and Security: Knowledge of data protection, security principles and services; data loss prevention, role based access controls, data encryption, data access capture and core security services
  • Common Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Frameworks: Ansible, CloudFormation
  • Cloud Computing: Knowledge of fundamentals of AWS architectural principles and services; Strong ability on cloud formation and to write code; Knowledge of AWS core services
  • Testing/Quality: Unit, interface and end user testing concepts and tooling inclusive of non-functional requirements (performance, usability, reliability, security/vulnerability scanning, etc.) including how testing integrated into Dev Ops; accessibility awareness

• Preferred qualifications:

  • Serverless data pipeline development using AWS Glue, Lambda and Step functions
  • Other Certifications?

You’ll Love Working Here Because You Can

Join a team and culture where your voice matters; where every day, your work transforms our experiences to make lives better. As you put your skills to use, we’ll help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. You’ll be surprised by what this rock-solid organization has in store for you.

PGIM Ireland is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of applicants’ gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race or membership of the traveler community. PGIM Ireland’s aim is to hire the best people for the open roles and all appointments will be made on merit.
Any offer of employment made by PGIM Ireland will be contingent on receiving satisfactory references. Applicants should be aware that background checks will be carried out on all candidates offered a position within PGIM Ireland.