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Block · 20 hours ago

Senior Data Engineer, Compliance Engineering & Technology

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$198K/yr - $297K/yr

6+ years exp

Block is a company focused on economic empowerment, supporting various teams that provide guidance and support across business groups globally. The Senior Data Engineer will work within the Compliance Engineering & Technology team to design and manage scalable ETL pipelines, optimize data models, and ensure data quality to support compliance efforts across multiple products.

Financial Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Work with engineering and product teams to design, develop, and manage scalable ETL pipelines to unblock new product launches

Create brand new and optimize 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 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 others to self-serve by building tools that make it simpler and faster for them to do so

Qualification

SQLPythonETL pipelinesData modelingAirflowTerraformData quality monitoringFinancial crimes complianceData-driven decisionsSoft skills

Required

A minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a Master's degree; or equivalent experience

High proficiency in SQL

Working experience with Python, and Terraform

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 data-driven 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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