Role: Lead Data Engineer Location: Charlotte, NC, Baltimore/DC, or Dallas/Irving, TX Duration: long term Interview: webcam only Job Description: Core Responsibilities Partner with peers and leaders across organizational boundaries, communicating effectively with people throughout the organization. Establish credibility as an engineer, coach and leader in turn driving collaboration with architects, principal engineers, and other technical experts to foster technical innovation and the use of advanced techniques and technologies (e.g., process automation, advanced engineering practices, etc.) to enhance business value and reduce operational burden. Lead and Mentor junior members, bring them to speed , and responsible for team deliverables. Create and manage cloud resources in AWS Data ingestion from different data sources which exposes data using different technologies, such as: RDBMS, REST HTTP API, flat files, Streams, and Time series data based on various proprietary systems. Implement data ingestion and processing with the help of Big Data technologies Data processing/transformation using various technologies such as Spark and Cloud Services. You will need to understand your part of business logic and implement it using the language supported by the base data platform Develop automated data quality check to make sure right data enters the platform and verifying the results of the calculations Develop an infrastructure to collect, transform, combine and publish/distribute customer data. Define process improvement opportunities to optimize data collection, insights and displays. Ensure data and results are accessible, scalable, efficient, accurate, complete and flexible Identify and interpret trends and patterns from complex data sets Construct a framework utilizing data visualization tools and techniques to present consolidated analytical and actionable results to relevant stakeholders. Key participant in regular Scrum ceremonies with the agile teams Proficient at developing queries, writing reports and presenting findings Required Skills 5-7+ years' experience as data engineer in consumer finance or equivalent industry (consumer loans, collections, servicing, optional product, and insurance sales) Strong background in math, statistics, computer science, data science or related discipline Advanced knowledge one of language: Snowflake,Java, Scala, Python, C# Production experience with: HDFS, YARN, Hive, Spark, Kafka, Oozie / Airflow, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker / Kubernetes, Snowflake Proficient with Data mining/programming tools (e.g. SAS, SQL, R, Python) Database technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, Redshift, Snowflake. and Greenplum) Comfortable learning about and deploying new technologies and tools. Organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple projects and priorities simultaneously and meet established deadlines. Good written and oral communication skills and ability to present results to non-technical audiences Knowledge of business intelligence and analytical tools, technologies and techniques. Familiarity and experience in the following is a plus: AWS certification Spark Streaming Kafka Streaming / Kafka Connect ELK Stack Cassandra / MongoDB CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab, Jira, Confluence other related tools Preferred: Direct experience and proficiency with Amazon Web Services : VPC, S3, CloudFront, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, Kinesis, Active MQ, Step Functions, Elastic/Open Search Prior experience within financial services Experience with RCS (Rich Communication Services) Master's in Computer science, Information Systems preferred.