Data Engineer III (Databricks/Python)

Velera

About The Position

Join the People Helping People Velera is the nation’s premier payments credit union service organization (CUSO) and an integrated fintech solutions provider. The company serves more than 4,000 financial institutions throughout North America, operating with velocity to help our clients keep pace with the rapid momentum of change and fuel growth in the new era of financial services. Our purpose: We accelerate partners’ success through innovative financial technology solutions and inspired service. The Opportunity: This position will excel in designing, developing, testing, maintaining, and supporting secure, scalable, and robust data solutions. The candidate will possess a deep understanding of technical issues, adept troubleshooting skills, and the ability to propose and implement enhancements. This role entails collaborating on the development of data solutions. The incumbent for this position will need an intermediate to advanced development level skillset allowing them to understand complex technologies, systems, standards, and best practices. The incumbent will exhibit a skilled perspective when identifying and delivering effective data solutions, capable of working independently with minimal supervision. Day in the Life: Work in a fast-paced Agile/scrum environment: Develop basic to complex Python code & designs to maintain new and existing technology systems following company standards. Accountable to develop and deliver technical documentation. Undergo peer code and design reviews to ensure stable and high-quality production-ready code. Build and maintain data solutions that meet or exceed industry regulatory requirements. Foster and maintain high collaboration with team members, other technical colleagues, and business partners from across the organization. Ensure compliance with established SDLC frameworks, including requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, testing, release management, and deployment. Ensure compliance with all the audit and security requirements of the company. Participate and follow established Agile standards (including attending all Agile events) to create a collaborative and efficient development environment and meet project goals and delivery dates. Ability to lead a team with meeting project commitments, such as project goals, objectives, and corresponding delivery dates. Ability to provide engineering leadership and mentorship to junior level engineers. Foster innovation to improve on existing challenges and to realize new opportunities. Ability to effectively collaborate with Architects to develop and review intended solutions. Ability to travel as needed to perform position responsibilities. Availability to be on-call as needed. Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, related technology field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Seven years professional work experience in software and data development required.
Two years of experience performing as a subject matter expert
Prior experience writing Python code in Databricks
Experience with Azure data technologies
Years of experience may be offset by having proficiency in one or more highly specialized technologies or skills.
Proficiency of computer engineering fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.
Ability to modify existing code and write complex scripts according to standards and best practices.
Ability to gradually take on more development tasks as learning increases.
Comfortable with cloud environments and concepts: Azure & Snowflake
Advanced understanding of data engineering concepts with knowledge in two or more modern programming languages and proficient with SQL.
Comfortable with big data technologies like Spark or Snowflake and comfortable working in scalable environments.
Advanced technical skills and knowledge in: data warehousing, databases, ETL/ELT, business intelligence, and data governance.
Leading and authoring of technical specifications and detailed designs.
Ability to review code for complex maintainability, coding standards and security issues.

Responsibilities

Develop basic to complex Python code & designs to maintain new and existing technology systems following company standards.
Accountable to develop and deliver technical documentation.
Undergo peer code and design reviews to ensure stable and high-quality production-ready code.
Build and maintain data solutions that meet or exceed industry regulatory requirements.
Foster and maintain high collaboration with team members, other technical colleagues, and business partners from across the organization.
Ensure compliance with established SDLC frameworks, including requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, testing, release management, and deployment.
Ensure compliance with all the audit and security requirements of the company.
Participate and follow established Agile standards (including attending all Agile events) to create a collaborative and efficient development environment and meet project goals and delivery dates.
Ability to lead a team with meeting project commitments, such as project goals, objectives, and corresponding delivery dates.
Ability to provide engineering leadership and mentorship to junior level engineers.
Foster innovation to improve on existing challenges and to realize new opportunities.
Ability to effectively collaborate with Architects to develop and review intended solutions.
Ability to travel as needed to perform position responsibilities.
Availability to be on-call as needed.
Perform other duties as assigned.