Financial Data Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Assist in the design and implementation of the Equifax Workforce Solutions Finance data models in GCP
• Participate in the development of strategies, standards, and best practices in the areas of data access and integration within GCP
• Create recommendations for increasing data utilization based on understanding of the data delivery environment
• Partner with Technology, Security, Data Governance, and IT Operations to facilitate and accelerate the movement of key Financial data assets to GCP
• Stay current with rapidly developing GCP technologies landscape and share knowledge with team
• Orchestrate automated data workflows and processes using Python, Airflow, Jenkins and/or Astronomer to eliminate manual intervention and increase operating efficiency
• Execute rigorous software development activities, including unit testing and code deployment, while reviewing unfamiliar code within a shared codebase to ensure codebase health by completing code review, refinement and optimization
• Research and evaluate emerging data sources and advanced technologies including ML, AI and RPA to enhance the existing data strategy and to optimize the output of the Finance organization
• Partner with governance and compliance professionals to ensure the ethical and legal use of data assets and maintain precise lineage tracking
• Collaborate with IT Centers of Excellence (COEs) to refine ETL toolsets, ensuring continuous improvements in cycle time and system performance
• Author training materials and lead sessions to educate internal teams on data strategy, operating models, and evolving data capabilities
• Deconstruct complex organizational problems into actionable data components to drive evidence-based solutions
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues, completing a root cause analysis and implementing solutions to resolve the identified issue in both the short and long-term

What Experience You Need

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Economics, or equivalent quantitative field with heavy emphasis on programming
• 5+ years of experience in building, loading, transforming, and analyzing data within and across database platforms and other data stores
• 5+ years of experience working in GCP or a similar cloud environment
• 5+ years of scripting/coding experience
• Proficiency in one or more to the following languages / tools: Python, SQL, BigQuery, Airflow / Cloud Composer