Senior Data Engineer

 SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network. The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $142,000.00 and $196,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.

Role Description

The Cloud Data Engineer is part of the Data Management’s Design & Development group within the Americas Division Tech and is responsible for building technical architecture for our Azure platform and support the on-prem to cloud migration initiative and cloud consolidation strategy.

Role is located in Charlotte, North Caroline with a Hybrid presence in office. 

Scope

The Azure Cloud Engineer strategizes, designs, develops and work with a team of dynamic and passionate data engineers to deliver automated cloud infrastructure and DevOps solutions. The incumbent will play a key role in supporting the growth and scale of our Azure cloud-based technology infrastructure. This role is also responsible for complex interface process development, troubleshooting issues, supporting weekend maintenance and production support of the interface processes development by the Design & Development team. Reports to the ETL Team Leader.

Role Objectives

• We are currently seeking a talented and motivated Senior Data Engineer to join our Cloud data solutions team.
• This role will be responsible for designing, developing & deploying cloud data solutions for risk, regulatory, finance & compliance projects and be at the forefront of on-prem to cloud migration initiative.
• This role will require indirect leadership and mentorship of junior team members.
• Work with business teams, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand business requirements, needs, or process gaps that would be addressed via proposed applications.
• Engage with IT systems architects, database administrators, and cyber security team to meet the back-end functionality demands of the application.
• Liaise with other technology and development teams as needed to coordinate on the integration of applications with the larger company software ecosystem.
• Participate in periodic development meetings to align development priorities and objectives, assign tasks, and share experiences and challenges with applications under development

Qualifications and Skills

• 7+ years of software development experience in enterprise applications, preferably in the financial services industry and on data-heavy systems

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or information systems preferred.

• Extensive experience on Cloud solutions, specifically in Azure
• Experience with Azure cloud services, Azure Data Factory, Gen 2, Azure Databases, Functions, Databricks, etc
• Strong knowledge of Python, Java or similar high-level server-side languages
• Advanced working SQL knowledge on relational databases, preferably on MS SQL Server and databases on Azure cloud
• Experience designing and architecting distributed systems, containerization, Web API’s and gateway management.
• Experience with the DevOps lifecycle (git, Jenkins, etc.)
• Experience with Jira/Confluence
• Experience with REST web services and microservice architecture