Overview
- At World Business Lenders (WBL), we provide flexible, short-term commercial loans backed by real estate to help small and medium-sized businesses across the United States, particularly those facing difficulties with traditional financing.
- This position is a Contract/Consultant role with working hours typically from9:00 am-6:00 pm Eastern Standard Time, Monday through Friday. Applicants should have an excellent command of the English language, both spoken and written.
- We request that you submit your CV in English.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Improved data pipelines (via automation) with quality checks to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and reliability throughout the entire data processing workflow, reducing manual intervention and minimizing errors.
- Migration of legacy systems to new systems, involving thorough analysis, seamless data transfer, and integration to enhance system performance and maintain continuity without disrupting existing operations.
Role Requirements
Education:
- A Bachelor’s degree Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field is preferred — but we also highly value equivalent hands‑on experience.
Experience:
- 4 to 7 years of experience as a Data Engineer.
- We value practical, hands‑on expertise that goes beyond just theoretical knowledge.
Required Background / Industry Experience
- Experience working with cloud-based data platforms and environments
- Strong SQL skills with data modeling experience for data warehouses
- Strong Python skills (especially notebooks) for building and maintaining data workflows
- Experience developing and maintaining ETL/ELT processes
- Experience working with data warehouses used by reporting/business teams
- Experience using Git/GitHub for version control in collaborative environments
- Understanding of data engineering best practices:
- Pipeline orchestration and dependency management
- Data quality, validation, and monitoring fundamentals
Required for migration-focused role
- Hands‑on data migration experience:
- Schema mapping and transformation
- Data reconciliation and validation (must be strong here)
- Data quality checks, integrity validation, and issue resolution
- Backfills and historical data handling
- Cutover planning and execution
Required for automation-focused role
- Experience building and maintaining automated data pipelines:
- Scheduling, orchestration, and failure handling
- Workflow reliability, monitoring, and repeatability
Preferred
- Experience within Microsoft Fabric or broader Microsoft Azure data ecosystem
- Experience with orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow, Azure Data Factory, or Fabric pipelines
- Experience with data quality and observability practices:
- Validation frameworks, alerting, SLAs, monitoring
- Experience optimizing performance in data environments:
- Query tuning, partitioning, indexing, cost optimization
- Familiarity with modern data formats and large-scale processing:
- Parquet, Delta, incremental processing patterns
- Experience integrating with external systems:
- REST APIs, authentication, retries, error handling
- Exposure to CI/CD practices for data workflows:
- Git-based deployments, PR workflows, environment promotion
Key Soft Skills
- Clear communication: can explain data issues, tradeoffs, and results to both technical and business stakeholders.
- Ownership & accountability: takes end‑to‑end responsibility for pipelines, data quality, and outcomes.
- Problem‑solving mindset: able to debug complex data issues and work through ambiguity independently.
- Collaboration: works effectively across engineering, analytics, and business teams.
- Adaptability: comfortable operating in evolving environments (migration, changing requirements, new tools).
Technical Skills
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, cloud technologies, and data competency.
Work Requirements
- Must be available to work Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Eastern Time.
- Must have a stable internet connection and professional remote working setup.
- Resume must be submitted in English to be considered.
What We Offer
Compensation in USD.
Benefits include paid time off (PTO).
Work Environment:Fully remote work environment.