Senior Cloud Data Engineer

Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is seeking a Senior Cloud Data Engineer to own complex data architectures, BI models, and ETL pipelines. You will design, implement, and optimize data solutions using AWS services, collaborating in an Agile team to deliver analytics capabilities for Audit and leadership.

The role requires 9+ years of experience, a BS or higher in IT, and preferred IT certifications. On-site work within commuting distance applies and salary ranges from $139,800 to $209,600.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of relevant work experience
• Bachelor’s or higher degree in a relevant discipline
• IT certifications preferred; broad knowledge of SQL and data analytic techniques
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms and BI tooling

Responsibilities

• Design and implement complex data architectures and BI models
• Configure and optimize database parameters and data loading
• Lead data quality, governance, and metadata efforts
• Develop and maintain ETL processes and data pipelines
• Collaborate in an Agile team to deliver analytics capabilities
• Create dashboards and ad-hoc reports for management

Skills

AWS

SQL

Python/Scala

Java

Data Modeling

ETL

CI/CD

Data Warehousing

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in IT/CS

IT certification preferred

Tools

AWS (S3, Glue, Lambda)

Aurora PostgreSQL

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Company Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future. The District IT & Corporate Services portfolio provides enterprise technology solutions and services for the System's District IT needs as well as the corporate and administrative functions.

This portfolio supports District IT for each of the 12 Reserve Banks and eight critical business lines Systemwide: Human Resources, Legal, Shared Administrative Services, Finance, Procurement, Audit, Law Enforcement and Facilities.

The selected candidate will reside within a reasonable commuting distance, as defined by the employing Reserve Bank, and will work full-time onsite.

Eligible Locations for Hire

• Boston, MA
• New York, NY
• Philadelphia, PA
• Cleveland, OH
• Richmond, VA
• Atlanta, GA
• Chicago, IL
• St. Louis, MO
• Minneapolis, MN
• Kansas City, MO
• Dallas, TX
• San Francisco, CA

This Senior Cloud Data Engineer role will be responsible for all aspects of business intelligence structure including analysis of requirements, design, troubleshooting, support and administration of schemas, data definitions, meta data, and architecture of all data analytic models, databases, and repositories used to create, retain, and analyze business intelligence data.

What You Will Do

• Responsible for complex data design, database architecture, metadata and repository creations, repository management, construction, and administration
• Configure database parameters, allocate database resources, and review data loaded into databases for accuracy.
• Leads trouble shooting database applications, product support, analysis of data requirements, maintenance of application and processing architectures, and database schemas.
• Establishes integrity of complex data definitions and underlying data models, and monitors/audits overall data quality.
• Leads improvements to increase efficiency of infrastructure and automation processes.
• Produce complex data analytic models, ad-hoc queries, and reports for distribution to Audit and business management.
• Performs basic SQL queries for analysis of existing metrics and the development of new metrics.
• Leads software testing including code-level/unit testing, ETL processes, SQL or reporting tools, code-level unit testing, and script development of moderate complexity.
• Work and collaborates as a part of an Agile team to develop and implement capabilities to enable decision making processes and procedures including data, reporting, dashboards, metadata collection processes, metric collection processes, resolve data issues, data governance and data clean up and maintenance, data sharing agreement processes, etc.
• Develops conceptual, logical, and physical IT engineering designs, that support the infrastructure requirements of varying levels of technical and business application projects.
• Completes analysis of business requirements, as it relates to technical infrastructure design, and ensure traceability of the design to the business requirements.

Knowledge and Skills

• Experience using core Aws services to build and support data solutions leveraging architecture best practices [S3, Glue, Lambda)
• Expertise in AWS Storage (S3, EBS), AWS Databases (Aurora Postgress,), AWS Data Integration (Glue).
• Good understanding of AWS Identify and Access management, AWS Networking and AWS Monitoring tools.
• Proficiency in CI/CD and deployment automation using GITLAB pipeline.
• Proficiency in Cloud infrastructure provisioning tools e.g., Terraform.
• Strong technical skill in software engineering for Java EE /Cloud technologies and proficiency in Java Lambdas, Java Streams API, Java functional programming.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages e.g., Python, Scala.
• Knowledge in Workday data tools including Adaptive & Prism desirable, but not required.
• Knowledge in Ariba desirable, but not required.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of relevant work experience
• Bachelor’s or higher degree relevant discipline
• Certification related to Information Technology preferred.
• Broad knowledge of programming, SQL queries, data warehouses, relational databases, and quantitative/qualitative data analytic techniques.
• Broad familiarity with analyzing performance measures and metrics and developing balanced scorecards and dashboards.

The salary range for this position is $139,800 - $209,600.

The Boston Fed believes in salary transparency. The final salary and offer will be determined by the applicant’s background, skills, internal equity, and alignment with market data. Whether you’re developing into the job or are a more seasoned candidate, we aim to pay competitively. If you reside outside of the 1st District (Boston), you may be hired by your local Federal Reserve District and compensation will follow hiring District's range and policy.

All employees assigned to this position will be subject to FBI fingerprint/ criminal background and Patriot Act/ Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) watch list checks at least once every five years.

The Federal Reserve System is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and to provide equal employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, disability, or military service.

All applicants must have resided in the United States for at least three (3) years.

Full Time / Part Time Full time Regular / Temporary Regular Job Exempt (Yes / No) Yes

Job Category Information Technology Family Group Work Shift First (United States of America).

OUR BANK has one of the most recognizable brands around the world. The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States—one of the world's most influential, trusted and prestigious financial organizations. The Federal Reserve is charged with the important mission of promoting a strong economy and a stable financial system and fulfills this responsibility by formulating national monetary policy, supervising and regulating banks and bank holding companies, and providing financial services for banks and the U.S. government.

OUR PEOPLE are diverse in background and ideas, which allows for ongoing creativity and innovation. Ultimately, they are the ones who push our high-performance, exchange-driven culture forward.

Why Our People Choose Us

Our reputation precedes us

There will always be room for personal growth

Our people are first

You’ll find the right balance

Your responsibilities will be meaningful

We hope that you will be our future colleague.