Senior Data Engineer-Onsite

Senior Data Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer with 7+ years of experience in building scalable, cloud-based data platforms. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Snowflake, Azure, and PL/SQL, with hands-on experience in data modeling, pipeline development, and performance tuning.

This role focuses on delivering cloud-native data warehouse (DW) solutions for Fund Accounting clients, supporting both batch and near real-time data processing needs. This is critical workstream for State Street servicing all Back Office business data requirements.

As Senior Data Engineer, you will:

• Design, build and test end to end data pipeline including data ingestion (streaming, events, and batch), data integration, data curation
• Design, develop, and deploy scalable data pipelines and ETL processes on cloud-based infrastructure using Azure, Snowflake, DBT, Airflow, Cosmos DB
• Define and implement automation of jobs and testing
• Optimize the data pipeline to support workloads and use cases.
• Support mission critical applications and near real time data needs from the data platform.
• Address data issues, environment issues, performing impact analysis, root cause analysis, corrective, adaptive and perfective maintenance
• Implement data models, transformations, and schema designs to support analytical and reporting needs
• Optimize and tune Snowflake performance, including query optimization, resource management, and scaling strategies

These skills will help you succeed in this role:

• Experience in micro-services architecture and understanding of Cloud Computing is highly desirable
• Experience with MicroServices - API/Event Driven Architecture/Development
• Strong hands-on experience in troubleshooting DevOps pipelines and Azure services
• Experience with DBT (Data Build Tool) for data modelling and transformation and Apache Airflow for workflow orchestration and scheduling
• Experience in Snowflake utilities including SnowSQL, Snowpipe, Snowlight for handling Streaming data is a plus
• Expertise in Snowflake advanced concepts like setting up resource monitors, RBAC controls, virtual warehouse sizing, query performance tuning, Zero copy clone, time travel and understand how to use these features
• Experience in re-clustering Snowflake data with good understanding of Micro-Partition within Snowflake
• Expertise in deploying Snowflake features such as data sharing, events and lake-house patterns
• Experience in handling semi-structured data (JSON, XML) in Snowflake

Education & Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree level qualification in a computer or IT related subject
• 7+ years of experience in professional database and data warehouse development
• 7+ years of development experience writing SQL queries/Stored Procedures for any another Relational Databases like Oracle, SQL Server
• 4+ years of experience on Snowflake development including Snowpipes, Snowshare, Task, Streams, UDFs and Procedures
• 4+ years of experience on cloud-based development including Azure Services, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker

Additional requirements:

• Any development experience on Databricks or Scala is a plus
• Exposure to working in financial services; front- or middle-office, or fund management business areas ideal
• Experience dealing with users or clients from either a technical or business area
• Desire to work in client facing environment
• Ability to communicate effectively and in a professional manner both written and orally.
• Be a team player with a positive attitude, enthusiasm, initiative, and self-motivation
• Ability to multi-task, meet aggressive timelines and have strong work ethics
• Experience of working in the financial industry
• Experience with agile development methodology

Work Requirement:

• Onsite 4 days a week in office and one day remote
• Standard business hours aligned to project and stakeholder needs(8am to 5pm)

Salary Range:

$90,000 - $157,500 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street's comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.