Data Engineer

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If you are a Google Cloud Data Engineer, Simmons Bank invites you to collaborate in an agile team of peers developing cloud-based analytics platform integrating data from broad number of systems to enable next-gen analytical products.

Senior Data Engineering Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is responsible to develop and deliver effective cloud solutions for different business units. This position requires in-depth knowledge and expertise in GCP services, architecture, and best practices. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and manage scalable and reliable cloud solutions. This position will also be responsible for driving innovation and staying up-to-date with the latest GCP technologies and trends to provide industry-leading solutions.

Our future colleague will :

• Contribute to multi year data analytics modernization roadmap for the bank.

• You will directly work on the platform based on Google BigQuery and other GCP services to integrate new data sources and model the data up to the serving layer.

• Contribute to this is unique opportunity as the program is set-up to completely rethink reporting and analytics with Cloud technology.

• Collaborate with different business groups, users to understand their business requirements and design and deliver GCP architecture, Data Engineering scope of work

• You will work on a large-scale data transformation program with the goal to establish a scalable, efficient and future-proof data & analytics platform.

• Develop and implement cloud strategies, best practices, and standards to ensure efficient and effective cloud utilization.

• Work with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and manage scalable and reliable cloud solutions on GCP.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the team to develop their skills and expertise in GCP.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest GCP technologies, trends, and best practices and assess their applicability to client solutions.

Qualifications

What will help you succeed:

• Bachelors University degree computer science/IT

• Masters in Data Analytics/Information Technology/Management Information System (preferred)

• Strong understanding of data fundamentals, knowledge of data engineering and familiarity with core cloud concepts

• Must have good implementation experience on various GCP's Data Storage and Processing services such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Bigtable, Dataform, Data fusion, cloud spanner, Cloud SQL

• Must have programmatic experience of SQL, Python, Apache Spark

• Atleast 7-8 years of professional experience in building data engineering capabilities for various analytics portfolio with atleast 5 years in GCP/Cloud based platform.

Your expertise in one or more of the following areas is highly valued:

• Google Cloud Platform, ideally with Google BigQuery, Cloud Composer and Cloud Data Fusion,Cloud spanner, Cloud SQL

• Experience with legacy data warehouses (on SQL Server or any Relational Datawarehouse platform)

• Experience with our main tools dbt, terraform/terragrunt, Git (CI/CD)

• Experience with a testing framework

• Experience with Business Intelligence tools like PowerBI and/or Looker

What sets you apart:

• Experience in complex migrations from legacy data warehousing solutions or on-prem datalakes to GCP

• Experience with building generic, re-usable capabilities and understanding of data governance and quality frameworks

• Experience in building real-time ingestion and processing frameworks on GCP.

• Adaptability to learn new technologies and products as the job demands.

• Multi-cloud & hybrid cloud experience

• Any cloud certification (Preference to GCP Certifications)

• Experience working with Financial and Banking Industry

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