Sr Data Engineer
MeridianLink28 days ago
Base Salary
$95k - $135k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, implement, and maintain ETL and data-processing pipelines.
- Write complex SQL queries to support analytics needs.
- Develop automated tools and programs using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big-data techniques to cleanse, organize, transform, and maintain data structures.
- Architect and scale a modern data platform for real-time and batch processing.
- Enforce data governance, quality, lineage, security, privacy, and compliance standards.
- Translate business requirements into reliable data models, workflows, and coded pipelines.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and lead proofs of concept that shape the data stack.
- Collaborate with engineering, finance, sales, compliance, data scientists, data analysts, product teams, and other stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- 6–8 years of experience in data engineering, with a strong focus on financial systems on SaaS platforms.
- Deep expertise in Python, SQL, and distributed-processing frameworks such as Spark and Databricks.
- Experience with cloud-based data platforms, preferably AWS or Azure.
- Hands-on experience with data orchestration tools such as Airflow and dbt.
- Experience with data warehouses including Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, and BigQuery.
- Experience working with structured and semi-structured data such as Delta, JSON, Parquet, and Avro at scale.
- Familiarity with modeling datasets in Salesforce, Netsuite, and Anaplan is required.
- Strong understanding of data security, privacy, and compliance in a financial-services context.
- Ability to work independently, exercise judgment, assess unusual circumstances, and use sophisticated analytical and problem-solving techniques.
- Experience improving enterprise processes and reducing costs through data is preferred.
- Experience democratizing data at enterprise scale is a strong plus.
- Ability to build relationships with senior internal partners and persuade stakeholders unfamiliar with the subject matter.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About MeridianLink
MeridianLink builds cloud software for financial institutions to open accounts, originate consumer and mortgage loans, manage collections, and verify data. Its platform is sold to banks, credit unions, and consumer reporting agencies via subscriptions with implementation and managed services. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Irvine, CA, MeridianLink is a public company on the NYSE.