Senior Data Engineer, RegTech

About Us

DriveWealth is on a mission to make investing easier. We believe that everyone should have the ability to control their financial future, and that access to financial markets should not be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems. We are 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.

There’s never been a better time to build a category-defining business and there has rarely been a team better positioned for this opportunity. Our culture blends the pace and agility of a fintech start-up with the impact, stability, and discipline of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. Join us and help build the future of global investing!

About The Role:

The Regulatory Technology (RegTech) team at DriveWealth develops data products to support the Compliance organization in its supervisory reporting responsibilities and external regulatory requirements.  We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to take ownership of regulatory-related data products. The role entails end-to-end automation of data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and delivery of best-of-class data products to internal and external stakeholders. The end product may be a BI report, data mart, bulk raw data delivery, or REST API endpoints. 

The ideal candidate is excited about working in an automated, modular, and testable environment and will work closely with the broader Data Platform, Analytics Engineers, Product Management, and Compliance professionals to ensure that requirements are met with scalable technical designs developed with strong engineering principles. 

What You'll Do:

• Assist in creatively solving compliance and regulatory needs at DriveWealth 
• Establish unit and regression testing practices for end-to-end CI/CD using declarative languages such as YAML and Terraform to ensure environmental parity
• Work with business partners, compliance, and product managers on requirements using an AGILE framework
• 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 internal and external stakeholders
• 3+ years working on data ingestion (CSV, JSON, REST), data transformation (DBT), and  orchestrating data pipelines (Databricks and/or Airflow)
• 2+ years of experience working with trading and/or regulatory reports, such as best execution, CAT, OATS, trade monitoring, EBS, and regulatory inquiries
• Experience working within a larger data team: CI/CD process leveraging GitHub and AGILE development where possible
• Programming Languages: Python, SQL, Spark (PySpark, Spark SQL)
• Declarative Languages:  YAML, Terraform
• Databases: DynamoDB, Unity Catalog, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent program

Nice To Have, But Not Required:

• Experience with business intelligence reporting (Sigma)

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States.  At this time, DriveWealth does not provide new employment visa sponsorship, but candidates with existing transferable work authorization may be considered.

Compensation package offerings are based on candidate experience and technical qualifications, as it relates to the role. These are identified and determined throughout your interviewing experience.

Please note: this role is expected to come into our office on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team.

New York, NY (Hybrid) Pay Range$150,000—$180,000 USD

Working at DriveWealth

We do our best work when we’re in the same room. To maintain the speed our partners expect, our New York and Chicago teams work in-office 4 days a week. We’ve found that being physically side-by-