Data Lead Specialist

Job Posting Description
Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you'll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun. 

About the team 

In today's highly competitive retirement market, firms must not only deliver superior customer value but cater to challenging customer requirements and solve complex problems efficiently.

Throughout the industry there is mounting pressure on organizations to do more, requiring a clear technology strategy that not only addresses the demands of today, but also enables the growth and performance of tomorrow. 

Sounds Interesting?

What you will be doing 

responsibilities:

• Design, Develop, construct, test, and maintain architectures such as databases and large-scale processing systems.
• Identifying, investigating, and resolving database performance issues, capacity, and scalability.
• Overseeing the design, maintenance, and use of an Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) pipeline.
• Developing testable, reusable code in SQL and Python.
• Communicating complex processes and data issues to clients.
• Providing technical leadership, project management, and mentoring junior engineers.
• Develop data set processes for data modelling, mining, and production.
• Recommend ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality.
• Design and develop scalable data pipelines using AWS services.
• Integrate diverse data sources and ensure data consistency and reliability.
• Collaborate with data scientists and other stakeholders to understand data requirements.
• Implement data security measures and maintain data integrity.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines to ensure optimal performance.
• Optimize and maintain data warehouse and data lake architectures.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for data engineering processes.
• Manages work efforts of managers/supervisors with responsibility for hiring, firing, performance appraisals and pay reviews.
• Identifies and allocates technical resources, e.g., programmers, business analysts to client projects within Development. Includes a mix of FTEs assigned to the development organization and purchased resources from other lines of business.
• Forecasts resource needs based on an analysis of both portfolio and projected client spend.
• Maximizes both utilization and profitability of assigned team of resources' billable time.
• Ensures base applications meet appropriate quality standards.
• Adheres to the departmental application development and client delivery process standards.
• Other related duties assigned as needed.

 What you bring: 

Knowledge / Experience

• 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Design, code and test major features, and work jointly with other team members to deliver complex areas of functionality under tight deadlines.
• Document specifications, design areas, test results, and solutions implemented
• Code corrections for identified defects for new and existing releases of the software
• Ensure compliance with predefined coding best practices
• Ensure adherence to processes as required by the project
• Update the manager of the progress on module, flag risks and issues early on in the process
• Coordinate with developers and business analyst(s) with focus on effective communication from a delivery perspective
• The individual may be required to work on multiple areas simultaneously (development, platform releases, installations, conversions, support, training, etc.

Skills

• Experience with Legacy/On Premise ETL solutions/Platforms – Informatica / Ab Initio etc.
• Experience with AWS cloud services: Glue, Snowflake, RDS, EC2, EMR, S3.
• Strong experience in Data Modeling and Data Architecture
• Knowledge of programming languages (e.g. Java and Python).
• Hands-on experience with SQL database design.
• Data pipeline orchestration (e.g., Apache Airflow)
• Big Data tools (e.g., Hadoop, Spark)
• Effective and fluent communication skill – Verbal and written
• Ability to represent FIS effectively to Senior Client leaders
• Must have a vision for recommending and implementing best Data management practices
• Decision making ability – Should be able to drive things than wait for directions
• Skill in leading, supervising and managing effectively under pressure
• Ability to think strategically and work with partners/vendors
• Manage daily activities and ensure team is engaged and propelled to do more, should lead by example.
• Self-starter but team mindset - work autonomously and as part of a global team
• Organized approach – manage and adapt priorities according to client and internal requirements

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent

What we offer you 

A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities
A broad range of professional education and personal development possibilities – FIS is your final career step
A competitive salary and benefits
A variety of career development tools, resources and opportunities
With a 50-year history rooted in the financial services industry, FIS is the world's largest global provider dedicated to financial technology solutions.  We champion clients from banking to capital markets, retail to corporate and everything touched by financial services. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, our 53,000 worldwide employees help serve more than 20,000 clients in over 130 countries. Our technology powers billions of transactions annually that move over $9 trillion around the globe.  FIS is a Fortune 500 company and is a member of Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

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Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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