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Dimensional Fund Advisors · 16 hours ago

Principal Data Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Dimensional Fund Advisors is a company focused on leveraging science and technology to improve clients' financial lives. They are seeking a Principal Data Engineer to design and develop data solutions across various domains while collaborating with teams to enhance data architectures and pipelines.

Financial Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Accountable for the design, engineering and ongoing operations of robust, secure, and maintainable data architectures, pipelines, and services

Collaborate with data stewards, database administrators, platform engineers, developers, and site reliability engineers to develop and launch solutions for data ingestion, validation, quality control, integration, storage, management, and delivery

Independently work with clients to transform business objectives into technical designs, applications, and solutions. Participate in and contribute to the design of agile teams and ceremonies

Stay current on technology trends by learning and evaluating modern technologies. Advise business clients on technical capabilities as a data service-provider / expert

Participate in code reviews and contribute to making continuous improvements to the team’s dev ops processes

Provide mentorship to junior team members and provide strategic input to senior management across various business and technology units

Provide operational support for production incidents as needed

Qualification

Data modelingData architectureETL pipelinesPythonRelational databasesNon-Relational databasesDevOps conceptsCybersecurity best practicesAgile methodologiesFinancial services experienceMentorshipCollaborationProblem-solving

Required

Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience

10+ years of software development experience in a professional and/or academic setting

10+ years of engineering solutions with a specific emphasis on data modeling, architecture and warehouse/lake engineering

Experience with Python, Ruby, JavaScript, or equivalent dynamic languages

Experience with C#, Java, C/C++, Typescript, or equivalent static languages

Experience with Relational and Non-Relational databases and related schema design and development

Working knowledge of DevOps concepts, tools, and continuous delivery pipelines

A deep understanding of cybersecurity best practices and a demonstrated ability to integrate best practices in development activities

Preferred

Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed

Ability to write in English fluently and idiomatically

Advanced degree or equivalent experience in engineering, computer science or other technical related field

Experience with agile/scrum methodologies

Financial services industry experience

Experience with any of the following: Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQL Server, Snowflake/Redshift

Airflow, Kafka, AWS, serverless/microservice architecture

TDD, BDD, Numpy/Scipy/Pandas, Ansible

Company

Dimensional Fund Advisors

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Dimensional Fund Advisors is a company that provides asset management services.

Founded in 1981

Austin, Texas, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://us.dimensional.com

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