Senior Data Engineer / ETL Developer - NC

Job#: 3045999

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Data Engineer / ETL Developer

Locations: Charlotte, NC

Work Arrangement: Fully onsite, 5 days per week

Contract: 12 months, with potential conversion

Bill Rate: $53/hr- $57/hr

Note: We are not able to consider C2C or third-party submissions

Role Overview

This is a hands-on Senior Data Engineer / ETL Developer role supporting the Home Lending Data & Insights team. The selected consultant will support the Core Downstream application, which receives and processes mortgage application data. This role focuses on consolidating data from multiple repositories, cleansing and transforming it, and delivering trusted data assets to business consumers while combining traditional enterprise ETL development with cloud modernization initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable batch and near real-time data pipelines.
• Develop ETL solutions using Ab Initio, Python, PySpark, SQL, and PL/SQL.
• Review technical designs and convert solution blueprints into reusable code.
• Integrate, cleanse, normalize, and transform data from multiple mortgage-related systems.
• Partner with Product Owners, Architects, Engineers, and business stakeholders.
• Support migration and modernization initiatives from legacy platforms to Google Cloud.
• Build, schedule, orchestrate, and deploy solutions through enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Support monitoring, operational excellence, root cause analysis, and production reliability.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of Data Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education.
• 4+ years of PL/SQL and SQL skills with proven experience in Oracle, Teradata, Python and/or BigQuery, including complex query development, tuning, and debugging.
• 4+ years of Ab Initio skills with proven experience to build complex graphs, Psets, and perform performance tuning.
• 3+ years of programming skills in Python; hands-on PySpark for distributed data processing.
• 3+ years of ETL/ETL design, data warehousing concepts, and data modeling best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial Services or Mortgage industry experience.
• Production operations experience: monitoring, SLAs, incident response, root cause analysis, and performance optimization.
• Experience working in hybrid environments (on-prem + cloud) and supporting data migration/modernization initiatives.
• Experience with scheduling/orchestration in Autosys and Airflow-based orchestration (Cloud Composer direction).
• Experience with Git-based workflows, code reviews, and automated testing practices for data pipelines.
• Experience with Harness, Jenkins, and uDeploy based CICD environments.
• Practical experience using AI-assisted coding tools in daily development.
• Ab Initio development/maintenance experience and/or hands-on migration of Ab Initio graphs to modern Spark/SQL patterns.
• Experience with Dataplex and broader data governance concepts.
• Experience with Informatica Data Quality implementation patterns.
• Experience designing near real-time patterns (micro-batch/event-driven concepts).
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform operational practices for data workloads.

Work Environment

The team environment consists of three Scrum Teams, with one based in the U.S. and two in India, totaling approximately 14 team members supporting the application. A strong onboarding process and documentation are in place. This position requires work to be performed onsite five days per week.

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