Analyst / Junior Developer

Role Description

The Sr Engineer, Data designs and delivers scalable data architectures and advanced data engineering solutions across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid platforms to support enterprise analytics and customer intelligence use cases.

Opportunity

• Design and develop advanced data engineering solutions that enable data pipelines, visualization, and analytical tools
• Architect and implement scalable data platforms across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments
• Build, optimize, and operate complex batch and real-time and near real-time streaming data pipelines
• Build, optimize, and operate low-latency, sub-second APIs on highly scalable, fault-tolerant architectures
• Design and maintain high-throughput data pipelines to support agentic AI workloads and real-time multi-agent MCP orchestration
• Build and maintain enterprise-scale Graph Databases that power organizational knowledge graphs and connected data experiences
• Perform data wrangling, exploration, and discovery across heterogeneous data sources to generate insights

What You Need

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 1-3 years of experience
• Strong experience developing and migrating data solutions across cloud platforms
• Demonstrated technical leadership and mentoring experience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills applied to complex data challenges
• Passion for learning and applying new data and platform technologies

Must Have Skills

• Advanced experience designing and building complex data pipelines using Python and SQL
• Strong experience with cloud platforms and services, including: Azure (Data Factory, Data Lake, Event Hub, Functions, Web Apps, Cosmos DB)
• Databricks with PySpark, Spark SQL, and Scala Spark, including cluster configuration, autoscaling, and performance optimization (e.g., Photon)
• Snowflake data warehousing, including schema design (star/snowflake), query optimization, and cost/performance tuning
• Expertise in SQL, NoSQL, and relational database design and development
• APIs, Streaming & Integration Proficiency designing and consuming RESTful APIs with secure authentication and authorization (OAuth 2.0, JWT, API keys)
• Experience using Postman and Swagger/OpenAPI for API sing, documentation, and validation
• Experience with message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable big-data data stores
• Engineering Practices Advanced knowledge of data pipeline development using Python and experience with languages such as SQL, DAX, Java, Scala, and/or Go
• Experience performing root-cause analysis and using technology to solve complex business problems
• Experience adopting AI-assisted development tools and building AI-powered agents or agentic workflows to automate engineering tasks, accelerate delivery, and enhance data platform capabilities
• Experience with NL-to-SQL query generation using Databricks Genie and Snowflake Cortex to enable natural language access to data assets
• Familiarity with AI-powered data quality tools for automated profiling, anomaly detection, and pipeline observability

Nice to Have

• Experience with Iceberg table design and optimization
• Cloud platform certifications such as Azure Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Cloud Practitioner, or MCSA
• Experience contributing to enterprise data governance, security, or compliance initiatives
• Experience with ML feature platforms (e.g., Feast, Tecton, or Databricks Feature Store) and vector database engineering (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector)

Compensation

Compensation can differ depending on factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, education, and level of experience. UST provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in various U.S. markets as set forth below.

Benefits

• Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year, receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year), 10 paid holidays, and are eligible for paid bereavement leave and jury duty.
• They are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching.
• They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as the following Company-paid Employee Only benefits: basic life insurance, accidental death and disability insurance, and short- and long-term disability benefits.
• Regular employees may purchase additional voluntary short-term disability benefits, and participate in a Health Savings Account (HSA) as well as a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for healthcare, dependent child care, and/or commuting expenses as allowable under IRS guidelines.
• Benefits offerings vary in Puerto Rico.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

UST is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.