Snr Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer
Whippany, NJ

As a Barclays Senior Data Engineer, you’ll be a AWS data engineer with experience in data warehousing & hands-on experience in various AWS services like Redshift, Glue, S3, Lambda. This is your chance to showcase your exceptional data background, which includes SQL and ETL & work on AWS ecosystem to build data analytics solution. You will be passionate about moving fast, solving new problems and building awesome things. Members of our team enjoy end-to-end ownership of micro-services including developing, testing, deploying in production.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

What will you be doing?

• Working with other data engineers and analysts to build new and extend existing data structures to support sales and client analytics
• Developing, maintain, and support ETL processes for loading data from multiple data sources into a S3, Redshift data warehouse
• Maintaining large, multi-terabyte data warehouse which includes performance tuning and data retention/purge processes
• Researching and troubleshooting data quality issues, providing fixes and proposing both short- and long-term solutions
• Disciplined practitioner of unit testing, version control and best engineering practice
• Comfortable driving development from a sketch to a polished product.
• Code, test, and operate integration of work as part of a team developing applications and services using Agile development methods.
• Designing and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications. Contributing to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure.

What we’re looking for:

• Five+ years of experience in data warehousing, data engineering and hands on experience in developing, managing, and maintaining large, multi-terabyte data warehouse environments.
• Two+ years of experience with AWS Redshift, Glue, S3, Lambda, Good analytical skills, creative thinking skills and a quick learner.
• Experience with AWS Cloud Formation for creating and managing a variety of AWS resources. Understanding of Data warehouse principles with expert level SQL skills
• Experience with Python scripting, experience in Git Hub, code deployment and JIRA. Understanding business requirement and plan solution to address data needs.

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Familiarity of Business Intelligence tools like Tableau, Qlik or PowerBI. Prior experience on a standard ETL tools like SSIS is preferred. Prior Financial Experiece (Not mandatory)
• Experiencing with agile development methodologies leveraging DevOps best practices will be added advantage. Familiarity of Business Intelligence tools like Tableau, Qlik or PowerBI
• Energetic and motivated, willing to take on challenging tasks, work independently and take on time pressure
• Understanding and transforming client expectations into technical requirement. Knowledge of DevOps and basic project development lifecycle

Where will you be working?

At Barclays, we are proud to be redefining the future of finance and here at Whippany we are defining the future of the workplace and the future of the way we work and live. We are creating a unique community, one of four strategic tech-enabled hubs that will redefine opportunity for everyone who works here. Whatever you do at Whippany, you’ll have every chance to build a world-class career in this world-class environment.