Senior Data Engineer

Year of experience: 8+ Years of experience Senior Data Engineer role to be part of our scrum teams and perform functional system development for Hadoop applications for our Enterprise Data Lake initiative

This is high visibility fast paced key initiative will integrate data across internal and external sources provide analytical insights and integrate with our critical systems

Participate in the agile development process

Develop functional and technical specifications from business requirements for the commercial platform

Ensure application quality and adherence to performance requirements

Help create project estimates and plans Represent engineering team in project meetings and solution discussions

Participate code review process

Work with team members to achieve business results in a fast paced and quickly changing environment

Pair up with data engineers to develop cutting edge Analytic applications leveraging AWS Big Data technologies Kafka PySpark Spark Hadoop Shell Scripting SQL

Mentor and influence up and down the chain of command

Perform other duties and or projects as assigned

Qualifications Requirements Bachelors degree in a quantitative field such as Engineering Computer Science Statistics Econometrics and a minimum of 9 years of experience

Minimum 5 years experience working with and developing big data solutions

Hands on experience on AWS writing shell scripts complex SQL queries Hadoop commands Kafka Spark and Git

Experience with real ime data streaming systems

Ability to write abstracted reusable code components

Programming experience in at least two of the following languages Scala Java or Python

Desired Characteristics Strong business acumen

Critical Thinking and Creativity

Performance tuning experience

Willingness to learn new technologies quickly

Superior oral and written communication skills as well as the willingness to collaborate across teams of internal and external technical staff business analysts software support and operations staff

Strong business acumen including a broad understanding of Synchrony Financial business processes and practices

Preferred Certification (atleast 1) Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer

NVIDIA Certified Professional - Agentic AI (NCP-AAI)

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