Senior Economic Data Platform Engineer

International Monetary Fund; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

International Monetary Fund seeks a Senior/Economic Data Systems Engineer to design, implement, and operate enterprise-scale economic data systems across the full data lifecycle. You will drive metadata-driven engineering, data contracts, lineage, and observability while collaborating with economists, data owners, product teams, and security teams.

The role emphasizes AI-readiness, data governance, and scalable, secure data platforms (lakehouse/warehouse).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, electrical engineering, information systems, data engineering, or related discipline with 10 years’ experience, or Master’s with 4+ years.
• Advanced experience designing, implementing, enhancing, and operating enterprise-scale data systems, preferably for economic/financial data.
• Strong knowledge of economic data, metadata and semantic models, SDMX, metadata standards, lakehouse/warehouse architectures, ELT/ETL, governance, security, and production operations.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced engineering expertise coordinating with stakeholders to modernize economic data systems.
• Design, implement, and operate data systems across acquisition, ingestion, transformation, storage, and visualization.
• Apply governance, metadata, and data quality controls for reliable data assets.
• Engineer data integration patterns: batch, streaming, API, and schema onboarding with secure practices.
• Develop data transformations using SQL, Python, cloud-native services, lakehouse/warehouse platforms, and analytics tools.
• Support DataOps and DevOps with CI/CD, testing, promotion, and incident handling.

Skills

Economic data

SQL

Python

Data governance

Metadata modeling

SDMX

Data quality

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/SE/EE/IS/Data Eng

Master’s degree + 4+ yrs exp

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI

Databricks

Spark

Snowflake

BigQuery

APIs

Job description

International Monetary Fund seeks a Senior/Economic Data Systems Engineer to design, implement, and operate enterprise-scale economic data systems across the full data lifecycle. You will drive metadata-driven engineering, data contracts, lineage, and observability while collaborating with economists, data owners, product teams, and security teams.

The role emphasizes AI-readiness, data governance, and scalable, secure data platforms (lakehouse/warehouse).