Job Title: Sr Data Engineer / Digital Transformation Specialist

Location: Irving, TX (On-site)

Term: Perm/FTE

Industry: Banking

Salary: $100k-120k per year 15% bonus

Note: Visa sponsorship provided if needed by the candidate

Overview:

Assist the Banking Operations division and Director of Digital Transformation with data driven activities that affect the Bank’s processes, internal controls and business plans. Contribute to digitization and automation efforts, monthly functions, processes requiring technical acumen, ad hoc reports and queries, special projects, system and website testing. Streamline, automate, and support reporting, metrics, and analytics. Help with AI research/adoption for various Bank needs.

We are looking at candidate thought processes. We aren’t necessarily looking at someone’s technical skillsets such as PowerBI, SQL, C#, etc. Although those skills are important, it is more important for the candidate to have a really solid attention to detail as well as a fluid thought process when finding solutions to problems. Additionally, they need to understand a full scope of a project. We aren’t looking for someone who only develops dashboards and passes it off to another team. We will need someone who takes more of a consultative approach by identifying problems with a business/data need, researching to find that solution, making a recommendation and building out the dashboard/automation to help solve the need. With that being said, someone with a strong attention to detail, is hungry to continue learning and has a solid maturity knowledge of systems/applications is more of what we’re looking for.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop reports and tools for business needs using reporting tools like SSRS, Power BI and Excel.
• Design and develop KPIs, KRIs and other metrics as needed towards building reports and dashboards.
• Carry out quality assessment of data, data reports and the accompanying decisions
• Demonstrate willingness to learn business processes and provide suggestions to improve solutions for impacted teams
• Design and develop dashboard for daily activities, management and committees as needed.
• Research and help evaluate latest tools for digitization and automation efforts. Design and develop solutions incorporating these tools.
• Design and build automation solutions with available tools including Microsoft Power Platform and UI Path,
• Help the Bank with AI adoption/research activities as assigned in areas such as predictive modeling, AI vendor evaluation and implementation, loan analytics and selections etc.
• Analyze Bank’s internal systems and processes, identify efficiencies, and offer solutions to assist in product development and to promote operational excellence.
• Liaise between the business project team, IT, other Bank departments and vendors on certain project assignments.
• Participate in the design and development of the Bank’s customer relationship management software, including software specifications, report layouts, functional acceptance testing, system accuracy, checks and new program implementations related to the software.
• Maintain and expand industry, product, and functional knowledge relevant and beneficial to the Bank’s data vision.
• Performs additional responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, math, finance, accounting, economics, or a quantitative field required. Master's degree preferred.
• 7-10 years of professional work experience.
• 5 years of coding experience with higher level languages like C#, Java, Python or similar.
• 5 years of experience with data and reporting: SQL, database design, report and dashboard development or similar activities.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills as well as strong computer skills.
• Working knowledge of business intelligence tools such SSRS report builder, PowerBI, or Tableau highly preferred.
• Ability to create and manipulate spreadsheets and data using of Microsoft Excel highly preferred.
• Ability to break down ideas/issues leading to solutions as well as conduct research to uncover answers and provide solutions.
• Organized and highly detail oriented.
• Self-directed, yet strong orientation to be successful in groups and on teams.