Senior Data Engineer – AI & Real-Time Data (Hybrid)

First Technology Federal Credit Union; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) match

PTO 15 days + sick time + personal day

Paid federal holidays

Employee pricing on lending products

Job summary

First Technology Federal Credit Union is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in the Data and AI space to build cloud-native data products and AI-ready capabilities. The role emphasizes real-time processing, governance, and observability, delivering AI-enabled analytics for data science and business intelligence.

The candidate will craft real-time data pipelines, semantic layers, and knowledge graphs, while deploying IaC with CDK/Terraform and maintaining data contracts for dependable consumption.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data engineering experience with cloud-native architectures.
• 4+ years of SQL experience.
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing, and building ETL pipelines.
• Strong expertise with AWS, Databricks, and Snowflake.
• Proven experience with real-time streaming technologies, including Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, or Spark.
• Hands-on AI/ML infrastructure experience, including SageMaker and Bedrock.
• Proficiency in Python and infrastructure-as-code tooling.

Responsibilities

• Engineer AI-native infrastructure that supports real-time data processing.
• Build semantic layers and knowledge graphs to enable intelligent query routing and context-aware data access.
• Develop infrastructure for agentic AI systems with multi-agent orchestration.
• Implement GenAI-powered data quality, entity resolution, and metadata management.
• Maintain end-to-end accountability for data products, from ingestion through consumption.
• Deliver data products with defined SLAs, quality metrics, and customer satisfaction measures.
• Create self-service platforms that include governance, lineage, and discovery capabilities.
• Establish data contracts and APIs for dependable, versioned data consumption.
• Build high-quality pipelines that support analysts, data scientists, and AI agents.
• Implement CDC and event-driven architectures to ensure real-time data availability.
• Deploy infrastructure-as-code using CDK and Terraform.

Skills

Cloud data engineering

SQL

Data modeling

ETL pipelines

AWS

Databricks

Snowflake

Real-time streaming

Kafka

Kinesis

Flink

Spark

SageMaker

Bedrock

Python

Infrastructure as code

CDK

Terraform

Data governance

Tools

Neptune

Neo4j

Vector databases

Job description

First Technology Federal Credit Union is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in the Data and AI space to build cloud-native data products and AI-ready capabilities. The role emphasizes real-time processing, governance, and observability, delivering AI-enabled analytics for data science and business intelligence.

The candidate will craft real-time data pipelines, semantic layers, and knowledge graphs, while deploying IaC with CDK/Terraform and maintaining data contracts for dependable consumption.