KBRA · 1 month ago
Lead Full-Stack Platform Engineer - KFI Data Platform (Remote)
KBRA (KBRA Holdings, LLC) is seeking an engaged and proactive Data Engineer to work with financial data and supplemental data sets to enhance analysis and visibility into financial institutions. The role involves collaborating with a team to design, deliver, and support systems, while focusing on technical quality and continuous improvement of the product.
ConsultingFinanceCreditFinancial Services
Growth OpportunitiesH1B Sponsor Likely
Responsibilities
Set and drive the technical vision for the team and partner with peer staff/principal engineers to shape direction across adjacent teams (data platform, reporting, internal and external frontends & apps)
Sit at the table with product and business stakeholders (KBRA Analytics, Bank Product) to translate strategy into a multi-quarter technical roadmap, make build/buy/sunset calls, and own the architectural decisions that come out of them
Own the architecture of a Snowflake lakehouse ingesting 30+ regulatory and market data sources (FFIEC, FDIC, NCUA, FactSet, Xignite, SEC EDGAR, FRED, etc.) via S3 external tables, Dask-based transforms, and SQS / Mongo change-stream event pipelines
Design and evolve reusable Terraform modules spanning AWS, Azure, Snowflake, MongoDB Atlas, GitLab, Datadog, etc
Drive CI/CD, IaC, and acceptance-test (BDD/behave) standards across the team
Mentor engineers and act as code-owner across IaC, data-lake, and application repos
Qualification
Required
Expert Python (ex/ Flask, Dash, Dask, Pandas)
Deep experience with AWS (ex. S3, IAM, SQS, Lambda, IRSA)
Terraform at module-author level
Advanced SQL and Snowflake (ex. external tables, MVs, performance tuning)
Experience designing high-throughput ETL over diverse formats (ex. Parquet, JSON, CSV, XML, zipped archives)
Supporting legacy systems and responding to incidents
Able to work in a collaborative environment
Have experience collaborating and communicating with technical and non-technical partners
Has a sense of ownership and craftsmanship in legacy and green field codebases
Enjoy helping other developers grow and learn new technologies
Preferred
.NET (for cross-team integrations)
Azure compute/identity/queue services
MongoDB Atlas
Datadog APM
Auth0
GitLab CI at scale
Benefits
Competitive benefits and paid time off
Paid family and disability leave
401(k) plan, including employer match (100% vested)
Educational and professional development financial assistance
Employee referral bonus program
Company
KBRA
Global credit rating agency providing independent research.
H1B Sponsorship
KBRA has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
59%
Represents job field similar to this job
Engineering and Development
Management and Executive
Customer Service and Support
Accounting and Finance
Trends of Total Sponsorships
*2026 (5)
2025 (16)
2024 (10)
2023 (10)
2022 (11)
2021 (12)
2020 (9)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$15M2021-12-13Acquired
2013-08-05Series C· $15M
2012-01-17Series B
Leadership Team
Jim Nadler
President and CEO
Bill Wright
Chief Technology Officer
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