Senior Data Platform Engineer — AI & AWS

Fitch; New York (NY); On-site; USD 135,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work-Life Balance

Learning & Mobility

Retirement planning

Healthcare

Parental leave

Volunteer days

Job summary

Fitch Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our New York City office, focusing on engineering and data quality. You will contribute to building an AWS-based data platform, enabling enterprise-wide self-service for AI, analytics, and insights.

You will collaborate across teams to implement data ingestion, transformation, and distribution frameworks, while championing modern technologies like AI and cloud-native architectures.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Data Management or Architecture.
• Strong AWS expertise (S3, EKS, Lambda, Glue, Redshift, RDS/Aurora).
• Experience applying AI/ML to boost engineering productivity and data workflows.
• Proven experience with Python data engineering (Pandas, Spark/PySpark) and API development.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable data platforms aligned with business priorities.
• Collaborate with CDO team and data product leads to enable enterprise self-service and AI readiness.
• Establish best practices for data ingestion, transformation, and distribution to accelerate insights.
• Lead backend services using Java, microservices, Spring Boot, REST/GraphQL in cloud-native architectures.

Skills

Python

Spark

REST APIs

AWS

Tools

GitHub Copilot

FastAPI

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Job description

Fitch Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our New York City office, focusing on engineering and data quality. You will contribute to building an AWS-based data platform, enabling enterprise-wide self-service for AI, analytics, and insights.

You will collaborate across teams to implement data ingestion, transformation, and distribution frameworks, while championing modern technologies like AI and cloud-native architectures.