What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Engineer position at SECU?
SECU is seeking a Data Engineer. This is a remote position for candidates ideally living in the EST time zone. Occasional in-person meetings and commitments throughout the year may be required.
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The Data Engineer develops and maintains data structures and pipelines within Snowflake to facilitate the development of reports, visualizations, data sets and analytical models used by analysts and other business stakeholders across the organization. The Data Engineer ensures that datasets are of high integrity while in proper alignment with business needs. This role will identify opportunities for efficiency, create recommendations, and enact solutions to automate and streamline existing processes. This Data Engineer also maintains a strong understanding of Data Analysis and will support the Data Analysts in complex analysis and reporting needs.
A day in your life might include:
- Implement data structures and pipelines within Snowflake to facilitate the development of reports, visualizations, data sets and analytical models.
- Identify opportunities to automate and enact solutions that streamline existing processes as well as identifying ways to ensure date quality
- Perform extensive quality control on all data pipelines through automated process and manual analysis, including check-ins with subject matter experts as needed.
- Maintain continual understanding of current data engineering technology and methods within the analytics world and how it compares with SECUs current capabilities.
- Interview business users and analysts to understand the cases that integration solutions must support.
- Provide SQL, Python and other programming-specific technical guidance to other engineers and analysts to support continued learning and development throughout the organization.
- Solve data questions requiring advanced transforms, custom queries, statistical analyses, or other related tasks.
- Collaborate with various groups and individuals within the organization to identify and understand their business needs and how key data sources for analytics will help meet their business challenges.
- Communicate results that address the requestors core business questions and provide key insights and relevant action items.
- Document the process undertaken for auditing and future reproducibility.
Education Requirements
- Bachelors degree or greater in any of the following or similar areas: Data Science, Computer Science, Management Information Science, etc. Equivalent professional experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
Experience Requirements:
- 3 - 5 years of data-centric programming experience as a software/data engineer, including at least one year of experience implementing data pipelines using modern tools
- Demonstrated experience with self-directed work on large and complex problems.
- Experience working in a highly collaborative, team environment.
- Experience communicating among multiple stakeholders and balancing multiple projects.
- Advanced SQL Skills
- Snowflake and SnowSQL a plus
- Familiar with transformation and orchestration tools (e.g., DBT, Qlik replicate, etc.)
- Advanced and experienced with PowerBI or similar
- Software/data engineering experience with Python
- Experience with modern data warehouse frameworks, tools and architectures
- Basic understanding of statistical techniques and concepts
- Innovative, creative and forward thinking; solutions-driven
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to work alone or in teams as appropriate
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (ie., AWS, Azure)
- Familiarity with GitHub/Azure Repos
Compensation Information: Offers will be commensurate with experience and education. Please Note: We typically hire at or below mid-point, which is $115,100 for this role.
- Salary: Min. $88,500 Max. $141,700
Other Compensation Includes:
- Annual corporate-wide incentives
We provide comprehensive benefits, with a focus on total well-being:
- Medical, vision, dental benefits
- 401k plan with company matching
- Generous sick, vacation and personal leave
- And more...2025 SECU Benefit Guide
SECU is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce where all individuals are valued and respected. We take pride in providing equal opportunities for all qualified applicants regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.
Salary : $88,500 - $115,100
