Senior Data Engineer, RegTech

DriveWealth is a global B2B financial technology organization dedicated to democratizing access to financial independence around the world. Our mission is realized through an API-based platform, empowering our partners to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide, all from their mobile devices.

Our technology provides partners with a modern, extensible toolkit, enabling traditional investment workflows and innovative techniques like fractional share ownership. DriveWealth has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options.

We seek enthusiastic professionals to contribute diverse perspectives and experiences to our Brokerage-as-a-Service platform. Our culture blends the pace and opportunity of a tech start-up with the impact, stability, and significance of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. We value diversity and inclusion, celebrating the unique differences of our employees as we scale and grow together. We’re guided by operating principles grounded in accountability, teamwork, integrity, and solutions built to scale. Join us!

About The Role:

The Data & Analytics team at DriveWealth creates data products that provide access to relevant data and insights to help partners succeed.  We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our growing data & analytics team at DriveWealth.  This Engineer will take ownership of the regulatory related data products focused on enabling our compliance team and partners achieve their goals. The initial projects will center around core data processing that delivers data to regulatory parties and partners such as CAT and CAT2E. The team places a focus on ensuring data quality and reliability, which has resulted in some early partner facing data products that enable data quality improvements. This role will work closely with a regulatory data product manager to expand upon these data products over time.

The ideal candidate is excited by both processing large volumes of data as well as thinking through new solutions to reduce the operational burden of regulatory requirements through human centered automation.  This role will work closely with data engineers, analytics engineers, product managers and compliance professionals to ensure that requirements are met with scalable technical designs developed with strong engineering principals. Finally, the candidate should be excited about coming into a team in the process of shaping the direction of data and analytics at DriveWealth, this means balancing competing priorities and laying the groundwork for scale.

What You'll Do:

• Build and maintain data products used to solve compliance and regulatory needs at DriveWealth 
• Establish best in class development practices that put data quality first without unnecessarily hindering deployment time. 
• Work with business partners, compliance and product managers to finalize requirements, anticipating future features to proactively provide value from data
• Work with broader data & analytics team to ideate, build and maintain “self service” data products that enable data and analytics usage (tables, reports, dashboards and python notebooks), stepping in to help deliver and provide guidance wherever necessary
• Work to establish an open and scalable data culture through documentation, constructive code reviews and clear explanations of priorities and pain points
• Provide thought leadership, best practices on architecture and tooling, and standards for designing and implementing scalable data analytics solutions
• Provide mentorship and guidance to analytics engineers and analysts

What You'll Need:

• 5+ years of experience solving data problems with business partners
• 2+ years of experience working with trading systems
• Experience working within larger data team : CI/CD process leveraging github and AGILE development where possible
• Languages: Python, SQL, Spark (PySpark, Spark SQL)
• Compute platforms: Databricks, AWS (e.g. Delta Lake, Kinesis and Kinesis Firehose) 
• Databases: DynamoDb, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
• Orchestration: Airflow, DBT
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent program

Nice to Have, But Not Required:

• Experience with the FIX protocol 
• 2 years of experience in CAT reporting, including investigating CAT break reports and managing regulatory inquiries.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. DriveWealth is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

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