Data Engineer

Company: Natixis Investment Managers
Location: Boston
Posted on: November 22, 2021

Job Description:

Natixis Investment Managers, a global asset management company, is looking for a data engineer to help design, build and manage business critical data pipelines that power applications and deliver data to customers. This role will be responsible for taking part in business and systems analysis, carrying out design, implementation and testing of data solutions to meet and surpass the requirements of our business partners, and regulators. In addition, this role will be serving on an on-call rotation providing off hours support as needed to ensure critical processes run without disruption for our business partners. Major Responsibilities

• Identify data needs for business teams, understand their specific requirements for metrics and analysis, and build efficient and scalable data pipelines to enable data-driven decisions across Natixis, develop, and own data pipelines and models that power internal analytics for business teams
• Drive the collection of new data and the refinement of existing data sources, develop relationships with infrastructure teams to manage our technology stack as the data journey evolves
• Develop strong subject matter expertise and manage the SLAs for those data pipelines
• Ability to gather requirements from business partners and implement solutions for the same.
• Ability to design solutions through best practices of design patterns taking into account future scalability and changes as needed.
• Ability to think creatively to offer innovative solutions for our business needs
• Participate in unit and regression testing during every release.
• Provide business support to various business units within the company for both off-premise and on premise applications and systems.
• Provide technical expertise and development responsibility in Team's framework development, security aspects of applications, sales reporting transactional and analytical environment, customer relationship management, deployed through various vendor and in-house developed solutions.
• Responsible for system analysis, design, coding, configuration, testing, and documentation.
• Contribute in designing and implementing integration solutions between various systems.
• Support nightly batch production cycles, which requires periodic on call responsibility. Experience/Skills Required
  • Computer Science degree or equivalent with 5+ years of practical experience
  • At least 3+ years of data engineering and analytics environments
  • Experience in database technologies such as Redshift, Snowflake, AWS Aurora, MySQL, Azure SQL Server
  • Proficiency in python programming with 3+ years of practical experience specifically working with data and ETL design patterns
  • Proficiency in relational database development and advanced knowledge of running efficient SQL queries, and data modeling
  • Experience in devops, scheduling, project management and IT governance tools and platforms such as Git, Codecommit, Rundeck, Autosys, Jira and Azure DevOps and Service Now
  • Experience developing on Linux and Windows platforms
  • Through understanding of all phases of the software development lifecycle and development methodologies
  • Desire to work in fast-paced delivery-focused environment
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Passion for learning and implementing new technologies
  • Strong business, problem solving, and analytical skills
  • Independent, self-starter requiring little supervision to complete tasks
  • Proactive in foreseeing potential business and technical problems and mitigating risk
  • Strong team player able to work in collaborative environment Experience/Skills Preferred
    • Development experience with AWS, specifically services around Databases, Analytics, and S3
    • Experience working with data warehouses
    • Experience with GUI ETL tools such as Informatica
    • Experience working in the financial services industry Natixis Investment Managers is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other terms, conditions and privileges of employment on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military or veteran status, physical or mental disability, or any other status protected by law. You have been redirected to a Natixis Investment Managers job page

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