Associate Principal, Data Analytics Engineering

The Options Clearing Corporation; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work up to 2 days/week

Tuition reimbursement

Student loan repayment assistance

Tech stipend for remote work

Generous PTO & parental leave

401k employer match

Comprehensive health benefits

Job summary

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is seeking a data analytics engineer to expand our analytics capabilities and build an internal analytics data warehouse. You will own ETL processes, data modeling and support teams across the organization in leveraging data for dashboards and insights.

You will design cloud infrastructure, implement batch ingestion, and collaborate with DBAs to enforce governance. The role emphasizes self-service data literacy and ongoing skill development.

Qualifications

• > Master’s degree in data science, analytics, or related field with two years of experience in data analytics.
• > Experience using IaC tools like Terraform and Ansible to provision AWS cloud resources.
• > Experience building SQL ETL pipelines using Python and data modeling.

Responsibilities

• Expand OCC's analytics capabilities by making data accessible and usable to analysts throughout the organization.
• Design and build internal analytics data warehouse and ETL processes.
• Become an expert on OCC's data sets and support teams in harnessing data.
• Lead the team gathering requirements and designing solutions for analytical questions.
• Collaborate on cloud data warehouse infrastructure with the Data Platform team.
• Develop and maintain batch data ingestion for extraction and loading to targets.
• Build data models for downstream analysis and dashboards.
• Tune performance and manage storage in the analytics warehouse.
• Collaborate with DBAs on access controls and governance.
• Create documentation and testing for data reliability.
• Promote self-service and data literacy across the business.
• Invest in ongoing learning and evaluate best practices.

Skills

Terraform

Ansible

Python ETL

Docker

Jenkins

JFrog Artifactory

HashiCorp Vault

Apache Airflow

Education

Master's degree in data science/analytics

Tools

AWS

Automic UC4

Apache Airflow

Job description

Duties

Expand OCC's analytics capabilities by making data accessible and usable to analysts throughout the organization. Act as an active contributor to the design and build of our internal analytics data warehouse and the maintenance of the supporting extract, load, and transform processes. Become an expert on OCC's data sets and support teams across the organization in successfully harnessing this data. Drive the team responsible for gathering requirements and designing solutions that address the problem at hand while also anticipating yet-to-be-asked analytical questions, as well as collaborating with team members in defining and owning processes for developing and maintaining our analytics platform to meet the company's security and IT standards. Design and implement cloud data warehouse infrastructure for internal facing analytics in collaboration with OCC's Data Platform and other teams. Develop a batch process data ingestion framework for extraction from systems and loading to target location(s). Build data models to ensure information is available in our analytics warehouse for downstream uses, such as analysis and dashboard development. Maintain performance requirements of our analytics warehouse by tuning warehouse optimizations and storage processes. Collaborate with DBAs to design access controls around our analytics warehouse to meet business and internal governance needs. Create documentation and testing to ensure data is accurate and easily understandable. Use IaC tools like Terraform and Ansible to provision AWS cloud hardware and software, enabling teams to perform model development and run backtesting. Leverage Python frameworks, data modeling, shell programming and configuration as code to build SQL ETL (Extract Transform Load) pipelines to serve accurate business-oriented datasets to business users. Implement DevOps practices like containerizing app code with Docker and Continuous Integration pipelines with tools like Jenkins and JFrog Artifactory to ensure high quality code. Integrate services securely with HashiCorp Vault to manage secrets, and orchestrate data intensive applications with orchestrators like Automic UC4 and Apache Airflow. Promote self-service capabilities and data literacy for business users leveraging the platform through development of training presentations and resources. Discover and share best practices for data and analytics engineering with members of the team. Invest in your continued learning on data and analytics engineering best practices and evaluate them for fit in improving maintainability and reliability of analytics infrastructure. Assist analysts in solving their analytics questions/challenges. Up to 40% telecommuting permitted. OCC offers a standard benefits package.*This position qualifies for The Options Clearing Corporation's Employee Referral Program.*

Education & Experience Required

Master's degree in data science, analytics, or related and two (2) years of experience as a data analyst, data analytics associate, or related

Special Skills Required

Must have work experience with each of the following: 1) Use IaC tools like Terraform and Ansible to provision AWS cloud hardware and software, enabling teams to perform model development and run backtesting; 2) Leverage Python frameworks, data modeling, shell programming and configuration as code to build SQL ETL (Extract Transform Load) pipelines to serve accurate business-oriented datasets to business users; 3) Implement DevOps practices like containerizing app code with Docker and Continuous Integration pipelines with tools like Jenkins and JFrog Artifactory to ensure high quality code; and 4) Integrate services securely with HashiCorp Vault to manage secrets, and orchestrate data intensive applications with orchestrators like Automic UC4 and Apache Airflow. Up to 40% telecommuting permitted.

Salary

$124,400-$140,500

About Us

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

Benefits

• A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
• Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance
• Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely
• Generous PTO and Parental leave
• 401k Employer Match
• Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Visit https://www.theocc.com/careers/thriving-together for more information.

Compensation

• The salary range listed for any given position is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at OCC, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and/or education.
• In addition, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.
• We typically do not hire at the maximum of the range in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a substantial benefits package as noted on www.theocc.com/careers
• All employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, company and individual performance and are not guaranteed.

OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer