Senior Data Engineer

Suncoast; Tampa, Northern (FL, KY); Hybrid; USD 86,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Suncoast Credit Union is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, evaluate, and test data infrastructures. This role leads the ingestion of data and develops scalable pipelines to deliver meaningful insights.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in data environments, strong SQL/Azure experience, and knowledge of data warehousing, Delta Lakes, and Lakehouse architectures. Remote in Florida with full-time responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
• 7+ years making data usable in a complex data environment.
• 7+ years with SQL Server, SSRS/SSAS/SSIS and T-SQL.
• Azure Data Factory and related Azure data services experience.
• 2+ years designing production data structures.
• Strong analytical, communication, and regulatory knowledge.
• Experience with Delta Lakes and Lakehouse architecture.

Responsibilities

• Builds data systems and infrastructures to meet business needs.
• Develops scalable data ingestion and processing pipelines.
• Designs models for classification and information extraction.
• Performs data cleansing, normalization, and governance tasks.
• Analyzes data for trends and anomalies across datasets.
• Implements NLP software modules and data solutions.
• Collaborates with business to define data requirements and schemas.
• Ensures timely data delivery and reduces refresh lags.
• Mentors teammates and stays current with trends and regulations.

Skills

Data modeling

ETL design

SQL development

Data warehousing

Azure data services

REST API

GitHub

Agile

Delta Lakes

Lakehouse

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, CS, math or related

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Azure Data Factory

SQL Server

SSRS

SSAS

SSIS

REST API

GitHub

Job description

Overview

Compensation: $86,000-$115,000 (based on credentials and experience)

Location Type: Remote (candidate must reside in FL) Position Type: Full Time

The Senior Data Engineer designs, evaluates, and tests data infrastructures. This role is in charge of creating solutions that fits the needs of the business.As part of this, it is required to have current knowledge and continue to learn the applicable methods and tools the business provides to facilitate the ingestion of data to the credit union . A working knowledge of this process is key in order to develop solutions that fit the needs and within the parameters of the tools available.

Responsibilities

• Builds systems and infrastructures that collect and process data according to company needs and goals.
• Builds, evolves and scales out infrastructure to ingest, process and extract meaning out data.
• Designs, develops, and implements statistical models to carry out various novel aspects of classification and information extraction from data.
• Leverages existing data infrastructure to fulfill all data-related requests, perform necessary data housekeeping, data cleansing, normalization, hashing, and implementation of required data model changes.
• Analyzes data to spot anomalies, trends and correlate similar data sets.
• Designs, develops, and implements natural language processing software modules.
• Troubleshoots problems, identifies possible solutions, and resolves accordingly.
• Work with business counterparts to define requirements for data desired to be provisioned updating defined requirement document templates in partnership with business counterpart.
• Work with the manager to transform business requirements into appropriate schema and data model.
• Ensure design efficiency to minimize data refresh lags between systems to report timely data.
• Deploy data architectures based on the standards set by the manager which drive Suncoast's data strategy implementation and transform business strategies into information architectures.
• Follow & execute on strong and measurable processes, tools and engineered data management solutions to support all data platforms – such as data warehouse, lakes, visualization tools, master data management, and advanced analytics tools.
• Responsible for designing and developing ETL process for extracting data from multiple source systems, transforming the data into a usable fashion, and loading it into data platforms.
• Build best practices and help establish standard operating procedures for data governance and quality.
• Utilize Azure Data Factory to create pipelines that create, move, and transform data amongst the data stack.
• Architect advanced data solutions for current for future data processes
• Mentor fellow teammates and assist in an advisory capacity.
• Maintain knowledge and understanding of current trends, laws, and issues affecting the area of expertise.
• Attend educational events to increase professional knowledge.
• Complete annual compliance and info security training to understand employees' role in maintaining effective compliance and security programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, computer science, mathematics or a related field. (A comparable combination of work experience and training may be substituted for education requirements.)
• 7+ years of experience making data usable to the end users and working in a complex data environment
• 7+ years of experience following Platforms Microsoft SQL Server, SSRS, SSAS, Stored Procedure Creation, Trigger definition and implementation, optimizing and indexing, base knowledge of views, tables, and database DDL and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
• Experience using Development Transact SQL
  • Proficient with the following tools;
  • Microsoft Azure (5 years): portal and resource navigation
  • Azure Data Factory (5 years) : developing pipelines, pipeline activities, troubleshooting, etc.
  • REST API
  • Git Hub: creating, updating, and submitting code
  • Agile Methodology (1 year): Kanban method of limiting work in progress
  • Developing ETL Processes
  • Delta Lakes
  • Lakehouse Architecture
• 2+ years of experience designing data structure for a production environment
• Ability to prioritize tasks by effectively managing competing and changing priorities to meet deadlines
• Accurate, detail-oriented, and organized with task management
• Ability to analyze and resolve difficult and often complex problems or situations
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills to interact effectively with members, staff, vendors, and government regulators
• Strong knowledge and understanding of credit union products, services, policies, and procedures
• Strong knowledge and understanding of regulatory compliance
• Strong knowledge and understanding of credit union computer systems and software applications required to perform job duties

Benefits

• Financial Well-Being: Bonus Program up to 12%, 401K Matching up to 8%, Retirement Planning, Pay Increases based on Competency, Employee Loan Discounts, Flex Spending Accounts
• Wellness: Medical Coverage, Dental and Vision Coverage, Access to 4,000+ Gyms, Mental Health Resources, PTO Wellness Days, Short Term and Long Term Disability Coverage
• Work-Life Balance: 11 Paid Holidays, 3 weeks of Paid Time Out, 4 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Birthday PTO
• Community Involvement: Paid Volunteer Hours
• Growth: Degree Assistance up to $5,000 per year

For more information, including additional benefits, please visit our benefits website at https://careers.suncoastcreditunion.com/benefits

Company Overview

Suncoast Credit Union is consistently chosen as a Tampa Bay Times Top Workplace because its employees genuinely #LOVEWORK! Employees flourish in an inclusive culture celebrating growth and prioritizing the community. For more information, please visit our careers site at https://careers.suncoastcreditunion.com/