Data Engineering Associate Director

Role description:

• Lead engineering and development focused projects from start to finish with minimal supervision.
• Provide technical and operational support for our customer base as we'll as other technical areas within the company.
• Review and supervise the system design and architecture.
• Interact with stakeholder to understand requirements and provide solutions.
• Risk management functions such as reconciliation of vulnerabilities, security baselines as we'll as other risk and audit related objectives.
• Refine and prioritize the backlog for the team in partnership with product management.
• Groom and guide the team of employees and consultants.
• Responsible for employee engagement, growth and appraisals.
• Participate in user training to increase awareness of the platform.
• Ensure incident, problem and change tickets are addressed in a timely fashion, as we'll as escalating technical and managerial issues.
• Ensure quality and consistency of data from source systems and align with data product managers on facilitating resolution of these issues in a consistent manner.
• Follow DTCC s ITIL process for incident, change and problem resolution

Talents Needed for Success

• bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering (any) or related field
• 8 years of experience in the job or related position.

Prior experience to include:

• 5 years of experience in managing data warehouses in a production environment. This includes all phases of lifecycle management: planning, design, deployment, upkeep, and retirement.
• 5 years leading development teams from with mix of onshore and offshore members.
• Experience designing and architecting data warehousing applications.
• Warehousing concepts involving fact and dimensions.
• Star/snowflake schemas and data integration methods and tools.
• Deep understanding of the Snowflake platform.
• Designing data pipelines.
• SQL and relational databases.
• Development in agile scrum teams.
• Development following CI/CD processes.
• Demonstrable experience with data streaming technologies like Kafka for data ingestion.
• Knowledge of Blockchain technologies, Smart Contracts and Financial Services a plus.
• Designing low latency data platforms a plus.
• Knowledge of Data Governance principles a plus.
• Optimize/Tune source streams, queries, and Power BI (or equivalent) Dashboards

Leadership competencies

• Champion Inclusion

  - Embrace individual difference and create an environment of support, belonging and trust.

• Communicate Clearly

  - Listen to understand. Ask questions for clarity and deliver messages with purpose.

• Cultivate Relationships -

  show care and compassion for others and authentically build networks across functions.

• Instill Ownership -

  Ensure accountability, manage execution, and mitigate risk to deliver results.

• Inspire Growth -

  Develop yourself and others through coaching, feedback, and mentorship to meet carer goals.

• Propel Change -

  Think critically, respectfully challenge, and create innovative ways to drive growth