Who are we?
For the past 20 years, we have powered many Digital Experiences for the Fortune 500. Since 1999, we have grown from a few people to more than 4000 team members across the globe that are engaged in various Digital Modernization. For a brief 1 minute video about us, you can check https://youtu.be/uJWBWQZEA6o.
What will you do? What are we looking for?
Information Technology
The Information Technology team supports almost every area of the Bank. Utilizing technology solutions to collect and interpret data for business strategies and providing infrastructure for all business operations. Puneet Rawal, the Chief Information Officer for Credit One Bank, explains why an IT professional should join his team by bringing up one word repeatedly: Growth, with a capital G. “Individuals who have growth aspirations for their career, will not find a better place. You want to be in a growing company that can support your growth. We provide that unique mix.” Click here to learn more about the IT team.
Position Summary
The Software Engineer will assist in designing, developing, and deploying as part of a strategic modernization effort. The candidate will join a team of Engineers who will be responsible for optimizing and transforming our data architecture, infrastructure, operations, and related functions. This team will work with developers, architects, business / data analysts and data scientists on data initiatives and will ensure optimal data solutions.
Essential Job Functions:
- Leverage modern data management toolsets and coding methods to design, build, implement, and optimize data solutions of all types – including support for OLTP and API/Microservices, data warehouses, data lakes, ODS, streaming data, analytic and BI/visualizations, etc.
- Transform legacy data structures and processes to modern, capable, and secure solutions in a hybrid cloud setup
- Apply Data Engineering & Design best practices to architect solutions, using a deep understanding of various data formats and database design approaches
- Design and Implement Data Services (DaaS) for consumption and various manipulations throughout the Data Ecosystem applying the “contract first” design principle and including use of API, Microservices, Microbatch, ELT Pipeline and other methods.
- Build best-practice driven data ingestion, develop tooling for increasing scale, accuracy, and automation in data pipeline, to integrate with decisioning, AI/NLP and consuming systems
- Ensure data security by designing controls and protection strategies
- Enable application performance and modernization by creating appropriate data capabilities to match
- Identify bottlenecks and issues and provide solutions to mitigate and address these issues.
- Makes a habit of covering most of their code with unit tests.
- Estimate efforts and ensure that work is completed on time.
- Responsible for code reviews and merges.
Position Requirements:
- Strong Experience Coding with Java, JavaScript (Nodejs), Python.
- Strong Knowledge of Design Patterns for Software and Data Engineering.
- Experience in on-prem and hybrid cloud infrastructure, including service and cost optimization
- Experience with production and analytics data, batch, and real time / streaming, etc.
- Experience with RDBMS (E.g., Oracle, SQL) as well as modern relational and unstructured data sources (like NoSQL), including cloud services (AWS/GCP/Azure). Hands on experience using tools is strongly preferred
- Knowledge of tools (or similar) such as Hadoop Stack, Airflow, Kafka, NiFi, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Elastic Search (ELK), JSON, Parquet, Avro and other Data Storage formats, Tableau, Superset and other Visualization Tools, Apache Atlas, and other Data-centric Apache Packages
Preferred:
- BS or advanced degree in Computer Science, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in software development
Compensation, Benefits and Duration
Minimum Compensation: USD 33,000
Maximum Compensation: USD 118,000
Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.
Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full-time employees.
This position is available for independent contractors
No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post
Photon Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
11 East Adams Street Suite 1100, Chicago, IL, United States, 60603
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