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Block · 3 days ago

Staff Data Engineer, Compliance Engineering & Technology

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

$240K/yr - $359K/yr

10+ years exp

Block is a company focused on economic empowerment, and they are seeking a Staff Data Engineer for their Compliance Engineering & Technology team. The role involves creating scalable data solutions, optimizing data models, and ensuring data quality while collaborating with various teams to support compliance efforts.

Financial Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Stay up to date on the latest data engineering best practices, decide which are most applicable for our use cases, and guide and teach the data engineering team the relevant tools

Create scalable patterns and solutions that help our team design, develop, and manage scalable ETL pipelines to unblock new product launches

Lead the creation and optimization of existing data models and schemas on top of Block data including but not limited to eventing, customer level, and process level data

Build monitoring to assess the health of the team’s infrastructure as well as data quality and lineage

Participate in the data engineering team’s on-call rotation: monitor daily execution, diagnose and log issues, and fix business critical pipelines to ensure SLAs are met with internal stakeholders

Work with non-technical partners and product teams to understand their needs, translate business requirements into applicable data requirements, and come up with automated end-to-end solutions

Standardize business and product metric definitions in curated and optimized datasets, and develop data dictionaries and other related documentation

Teach and encourage software engineer teams to self-serve by building tools that make it simpler and faster for them to do so

Qualification

SQLPythonETL pipelinesData modelingData quality monitoringDatabricksAirflowPrefectSnowflakeTerraformDbtGithubTableauFinancial crimes complianceAI initiatives

Required

A minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 10 years and a Master's degree; or equivalent experience

High proficiency in SQL

Working experience with Python

Databrick experience

Experience designing medium-to-large data engineering solutions and responsible for the entire lifecycle of projects including scoping, design, development, testing, deployment, and documentation

Experience with ETL scheduling technologies with dependency checking, such as Airflow or Prefect, as well as schema design and dimensional data modeling

Experience with setting up data quality and data lineage monitoring

Preferred

Experience with financial crimes compliance systems, technologies, and processes is a big plus

Experience driving decisions for AI initiatives / agent building is a big plus

Benefits

Remote work

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement savings plans

Modern family planning

Company

Block

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Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment.

Founded in 1990

Oakland, California, US

10001+ employees

https://block.xyz/

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