Remote Data Engineer II — Modern Data Pipelines

Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.; Elizabethtown (KY); Remote; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. is seeking a Data Engineer to join the Data & Analytics team. You will design, build, and optimize batch and streaming data pipelines powering payment processing systems and analytics.

The role emphasizes modern data integration, code-first development, and observability, with on-call support as needed. Ideal candidates have 3+ years in data/software engineering, experience with SQL Server/MySQL, C#, Python, and Docker, and a collaborative mindset across DBAs,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or database development.
• Experience developing solutions on relational databases such as SQL Server or MySQL.
• Experience developing applications or services using C# or similar object-oriented languages.
• Experience developing and supporting ETL/ELT and data integration solutions.
• Experience with source control systems such as Git and code review workflows.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker.

Responsibilities

• W orks within the Data & Analytics team, collaborating with DBAs, Data Architects, BI Developers, Data Scientists, and Software Engineers.
• Designs, develops, tests, deploys, and maintains batch and streaming data pipelines supporting payment processing systems.
• Develops data integration solutions using SQL, C#, Python, PowerShell and related automation tech.
• Develops event-driven architectures using CDC, Kafka, messaging platforms and stream-processing tech.
• Maintains legacy data integration solutions and moves workloads toward code-first development.
• Creates and maintains CI/CD pipelines for data integration and analytics.
• Implements monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability for data platforms.
• Works with governance teams to populate and maintain enterprise data warehouse and lakehouse solutions.
• Tunes SQL queries to reduce impact on source systems and improve performance.
• Optimizes data pipelines for throughput, scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency.
• Produces technical documentation, diagrams, runbooks, and deployment procedures.
• Leverages AI-assisted development tools responsibly and validates generated code.
• Participates in on-call rotations and after-hours support as needed.

Skills

SQL

C#

Python

PowerShell

Kafka

CI/CD

Git

Docker

SSIS

Data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering

Tools

SQL Server

MySQL

Kafka

Git

Docker

Job description

Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. is seeking a Data Engineer to join the Data & Analytics team. You will design, build, and optimize batch and streaming data pipelines powering payment processing systems and analytics.

The role emphasizes modern data integration, code-first development, and observability, with on-call support as needed. Ideal candidates have 3+ years in data/software engineering, experience with SQL Server/MySQL, C#, Python, and Docker, and a collaborative mindset across DBAs,