Senior Data Engineer

Job Purpose:

• Leading and mentoring a team of junior data engineers within an agile framework.
• Writing efficient, fault-tolerant, production-level code for your deployment.
• Collaborating with Solution Architects to champion solutions and standards for complex big data challenges.
• Ensuring best practices are followed within the team.
• Advising colleagues on technical concepts and translating them into actionable insights for decision-making.
• Supporting development and operations by ensuring high-quality, operationally stable systems.

Key Specifications:

Basic understanding of banking and financial services domain to understand requirements.

• Familiarity with agile development methodology / JIRA and requirements backlog management.
• Involvement in development projects, with exposure to Financial Crime Compliance areas such as Client Lifecycle Management, Know Your Customer (KYC) and Customer Due Diligence (CDD)
• General development environment skills (code control, IDE s), understand processes such as unit testing, documentation, design

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze large datasets to derive actionable insights.
• Develop machine learning models to solve complex business problems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements.
• Design and maintain databases for efficient data storage and retrieval.
• Implement and optimize algorithms for performance improvement.
• Create visualizations to present findings to stakeholders.
• Conduct statistical analysis to identify patterns and trends.
• Provide training and support to team members on data tools.
• Document processes and methodologies for data analysis tasks.
• Stay updated with industry trends and best practices in data science.
• Participate in requirements gathering with business users.
• Develop prototypes and proof-of-concept applications.
• Implement data pipeline processes for real-time analytics.
• Utilize business intelligence tools for reporting and performance metrics.
• Ensure compliance with data privacy regulations and policies.