Principal Data Engineer

Patelco Credit Union • Dublin, CA, US • 3w ago

About Patelco Credit Union:

Patelco Credit Union is a not-for-profit credit union with a purpose to build financial health and wellbeing for our members. Since 1936, Patelco has grown from $500 in assets to over $9 billion in assets and is the 7th largest credit union in California with branches throughout Northern California.

We are here for our members throughout all their stages of life. Meeting them with the products and services to help them plan purposefully for their futures and to secure our life-long partnership as their trusted financial advocate. As one team, we are all committed to delivering service, empowering financial literacy, creating products, and providing new technology for our members.

We believe that work should be rewarding, challenging, and enjoyable. We’re dedicated to creating a positive and supportive culture where our team members can thrive. If you’re looking to use your skills and knowledge to make a difference in our members’ lives, Patelco could be the perfect fit for you.

Overview:

The Principal Data Engineer will play a key role in managing and delivering a portfolio of data and analytics related projects that align with business and technology needs to serve Patelco members. This role will bring programmatic rigor and best practices to architect, develop, and deploy complex data and analytical pipelines. A proven leader and subject matter expert in data space in leading conversations across teams to drive for business requirements clarity, build and launch data products. The principal data engineer will support all development efforts including data analysis, data modeling and data design/integration tasks as well as the creation of metrics and attributes to be consumed by interactive dashboards and data that are widely used throughout the organization. The role will be instrumental in the expansion of snowflake lake warehouse data platform to enable critical business decisions.

Responsibilities:

Partner with development teams, business team members, and the broader analytics teams to enable decision support and key member insights in the product and member well-bring areas; Partner with platform teams, data engineering, and data science teams to develop the tools and processes needed to build next generation AI-driven platforms to improve member experience.
Ensures data collection and data processing is optimized to provide crystal-clear visibility into the impact and value of new initiatives and product releases
Delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables with broad impact (high throughput and low latency).
Writes and organizes code using multiple computer languages, including distributed programming and understand different frameworks and paradigms.
Assists and coaches data engineers with best practices in analysis, data management, building partnerships and project life-cycle management.
Leads or conduct detailed data analytics and recommendations impacting our membership
Develops strategies for warehouse implementation, data acquisition, and archive recovery.
Provides consultation on complex projects and is considered to be a top-level contributor/specialist.
Maintains awareness of industry standards, trends, and best practices in order to strengthen organizational and technical knowledge.
Participate in the establishment of group standards and processes; Participates in the Communities of Practice.

Functional Competencies

Knowledge
- Strong technical expertise in Data engineering, data pipeline development, data processes development using Azure data factory, Snowflake, Tableau and related technologies.
- Proven experience working closely with data engineers, data science, and product teams to launch data products.
- Subject matter expert in all aspects of Data Management, Data Analytics and Operations Management
Skills
- Communication - Demonstrates ability to present with impact and communicate effectively. Listens to others, communicates articulately, and fosters open and honest communication. Is concise and persuasive orally and in writing. Listens to what is said and is appropriately sensitive to the reaction of others.
- Leadership - Plays a key role in shaping organizational ethics and values by communicating and consistently exemplifying them. Demonstrates commitment to member, membership and organization. Acts as an organizational ambassador by professionally representing Patelco within and outside of the credit union.
- Organization - Organizes resources to accomplish objectives in the most effective and efficient way.
- Teamwork and Collaboration - Effectively collaborates with others to achieve organizational goals. Works across departments to provide high quality member service and escalates issues to solve problems.
- Time management - Strong organization, time management and task prioritization skills
- Risk management – Ability to proactively manage and mitigate risks.
- Problem-solving - Analytically minded with experience working on large scale data projects; product management experience would be a plus
Behavior
- Demonstrates commitment to team members, membership, and organization.
- Effectively collaborates with others to achieve organizational goals.
- Breaks down barriers (structural, functional, cultural) between teams, facilitating the sharing of expertise and resources. Works in the best interest of the credit union.
Ability to perform functional and data requirements analysis, and implementation of data engineering projects, analyze customer requirements and provide solution recommendations.
Demonstrate knowledge of information engineering methodologies, process improvement, and performance measurement
Ability to support the development of organization-wide data models for use in designing and building integrated, shared software and database systems

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
10+ years’ experience in leading data management and analytics process, projects and releases that are enterprise in nature.
This position is based in Dublin, CA.

Target Base Pay:

$132,197- $165,255 / per year

Compensation at Patelco:

Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Patelco Credit Union considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer. We offer a competitive total rewards package including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits.

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