Position Overview

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company’s success. As a Software Engineering Senior – Full Stack & Big Data within PNC's Data Products organization, you will be based in Pittsburgh, PA, Birmingham, AL, Dallas, TX or Strongsville, OH. The position is primarily based in a PNC location. Responsibilities require time in the office or in the field on a regular basis. Some responsibilities may be performed remotely, at the manager’s discretion.

PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position.

Preferred Qualifications:

Core Technical Qualifications
-Programming & Frameworks
Proficiency in Java with strong experience in Spring Boot for building APIs
and Kafka
pipelines / microservices.
Knowledge of RESTful API design and integration with enterprise systems.
Exposure to UI frameworks (e.g., Angular, React, or equivalent) for building
dashboards or business-facing applications is a plus
- Event Streaming & Messaging
Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka (producers, consumers, schema
registry, topic partitioning, lag monitoring).
Understanding of event-driven architecture and real-time data processing.
- Big Data Development
Strong background in Apache Spark (batch and streaming) for ETL and
analytics.
Familiarity with Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, Hive, YARN, MapReduce) for
large-scale data processing.
Experience tuning performance of distributed jobs in a financial data
environment.

Database Experience
-Relational Databases (RDBMS)
Expertise in Oracle, or Similar for transactional and operational data
storage.
Strong SQL skills: writing complex queries, stored procedures,
performance tuning, and query optimization.
-NoSQL / Distributed Databases
Experience with MongoDB, or Similar for handling unstructured or high-
volume datasets.
Knowledge of time-series data / familiarity with ELK.
-Data Warehousing
Familiarity with Snowflake, Teradata, or Redshift for analytical workloads.
Experience building data models that support data products use cases.

Testing, DevOps & Production Support
-Strong knowledge of unit testing, integration testing, and regression testing
frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, etc.).
-Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git, working with Kubernetes /
container deployments).
-Understanding of logging/monitoring tools (ELK, Splunk, Grafana, Pro-
metheus).
-Experience supporting production releases and post-production issue
resolution in regulated financial environments.

Business & Domain Knowledge
-Exposure to financial services domain: payments, risk management,
compliance, or fraud detection.
-Ability to translate business use cases into data products with measurable
value is a plus.
-Awareness of data governance, lineage, and regulatory compliance is a plus.

Soft Skills & Agile Practices
-Strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration (business analysts,
QA, product owners).
-Experience working in Scrum or Agile teams, participating in stand-ups, sprint
planning, retrospectives, and demos.
-Problem-solving mindset with ability to handle production incidents and root-
cause analysis.

PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position.

Job Description

• Provides detailed technical design and development of software solutions using existing and emerging technology platforms.
• Proposes & designs software solutions to address complex business needs.
• Writes code, tests and deploys software.
• Prepares technical and procedural documentation required for software.
• Maintains and debugs software.

PNC Employees take pride in our reputation and to continue building upon that we expect our employees to be:

• Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that