Principal Data Engineer

Citizens Financial Group

• $120K — $145K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or related field.
  • 7 years of progressive experience as a Senior Data Engineer or in a related role.
  • Expertise in building data pipelines, data warehousing solutions, and user reporting frameworks.
  • Experience with ETL development using tools such as IBM Datastage, Talend, and ODI.
  • Proficiency with AWS cloud services, including S3, Glue, and Redshift.

Responsibilities

  • Design scalable data architecture and lead technical design decisions for data pipelines.
  • Analyze existing systems to identify areas for improvement.
  • Create high-level design documents for ETL processes and data dictionaries.
  • Gather business requirements and provide feedback on discrepancies or gaps.
  • Manage all phases of the software development life cycle, including testing and deployment.
  • Write technical documentation for data migration processes and job execution.
  • Participate in code reviews to ensure adherence to enterprise standards.

Benefits

  • 100% remote work allowed from any US location.
  • Generous vacation and paid time off policies.
  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Retirement plans with company matching contributions.
  • Opportunities for professional development and training.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (CFG) seeks a Principal Data Engineer for its Johnston, Rhode Island location.

Responsibilities:
• Design scalable and reliable data architecture, leading complex technical design decisions for data pipelines and ETL processes, review implementations developed by team members and contract resources, mentor team members on best practices, and drive improvements to enhance performance, scalability, and reliability of data platforms.
• Perform analysis and study of existing systems.
• Create high level design documents to extract, transform, validate, and load ETL process data dictionaries, metadata descriptions, file layouts, and flow diagrams.
• Gather business and application requirements, provide feedback on missing or contradictory requirements, plans and executes sprints.
• Organize and manage all phases of the software development life cycle, including development, testing, and deployment of code into production.
• Write technical documentation covering design and execution of parallel jobs, batch jobs, and sequencers for data migration.
• Participate in code and design reviews with network, infrastructure and solutions engineering teams to ensure that solutions meet current enterprise standards.
• Serve as a technical lead, mentoring and supervising more junior engineers.

Qualifications:

Requires a Bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or related field followed by 7 years of progressive experience as Senior Data Engineer, IT Consultant, or a related position.

Must have 7 years of experience with:
• Building data pipelines, datawarehouse solutions, and frameworks for accommodating end user reporting needs;
• Collecting requirements, creating software designs, and developing efficient implementations using Agile Software Development Life Cycle;
• Implementing data pipelines with using sources that include flat files, databases, APIs, and streaming applications;
• Building ETL and data warehousing applications using IBM Datastage, Talend, and ODI;
• Designing data enrichment frameworks and processing large amounts of data using Spark, Python, Talend, Datastage, ODI, Unix, PL-SQL, Teradata, AWS, and Java;
• Designing, developing, and automating ETL processes to validate and perform reconciliations among multiple source systems using ETL tools, including Spark, Python, Talend, Datastage, ODI, Unix, PL-SQL, Teradata, AWS, and Java;
• Utilizing programming languages including, Python, Unix, Java, JavaScript , C, and C++ to fetch data from rest APIs and retrieve security keys;
• Utilizing AWS cloud services, including S3, Glue, Athena, Lake Formation, Lambda, EC2, RDS, EMR, Redshift, and IAM to migrate data to AWS Cloud;
• Utilizing Cloud technologies, including AWS, AZURE, and GCP, to fetch data from AWS Cloud environments for processing in downstream systems;
• Developing and integrating APIs using REST webservices; and
• Utilizing CICD tools, including Bitbucket, Github, and Jenkins.

100% remote work permitted from any US location.

Worksite: One Citizens Bank Way, Johnston, RI 02919 United States, 40 hrs/wk. EO employer.

For summary of benefits and to apply visit our website at https://jobs.citizensbank.com and apply online (Job ID: 49575) or email resume and cover letter to [redacted] with subject line: 49575.

Direct applicants only.

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