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CreditXpert has an exciting opportunity for a Junior engineer in our Data Analytics Program. As the Data Engineer, your main mission will be to define and deploy data ingestion pipelines that normalize and transform customer and third-party data to allow business intelligence analysts and BI power users, machine learning engineers and data scientists to gain insight from their analytics and research. The Data Engineer will create automated tests to ensure data meets quality standards and routinely works with our Product Development Team, handling requests and configuring connections to our predictive platform.
The ideal Data Engineer has a healthy drive to collaborate, gather feedback, and tackle challenges through testing and learning. Requirements
Essential Functions:
- Manage the end-to-end setup of our customers' data: from raw data sources to data ingestion pipelines and connections to our predictive platform
- Analyze and validate customer data from ingestion to production
- Monitor all data update processes and outputs to ensure quality and uptime
- Collaborate with other members of the Data Analytics Program and with the Product Development Team to discuss new use cases or help identify and fix data issues
- Develop and maintain proprietary technical documentation
- Solving day-to-day customer data challenges
- Design and Build Data Pipelines: Develop, maintain, and optimize scalable ETL pipelines for ingesting and transforming structured and semi-structured data from various sources.
- Set up, configure, and maintain Fivetran connectors to ensure data is extracted, loaded, and synchronized properly across systems.
- Data Modeling: Develop and maintain data models to ensure consistency and ease of access for analytics, business reporting, and predictive modeling.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to review and discuss Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) to align database structures with business needs.
- Engage with cross-functional teams to understand their reporting requirements and ensuring data models and pipelines meet those needs for accurate reporting.
- Optimize Data Systems: Monitor and enhance the performance, scalability, and efficiency and accuracy of data with each version of the product.
- Data Governance, Cleaning and Quality: Implement data quality checks and enforce data governance standards to ensure availability, accuracy, cleanliness, and reliability
- Data Warehouse Administration: Administer and manage the organization’s cloud data warehouse, ensuring efficient storage, retrieval, and management of data, while optimizing for performance, scalability, and security.
- Manually access and download data from external sources to ensure it is available for processing and analysis.
Competencies and Criteria for Success
Job Specific Competencies:
- Analytical
- Critical Thinker
- Quick Learner…Loves learning
- Proactive
- Passionate about Data
- Detail Oriented
Required Education and Experience
- BS/BA degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field
- Proficient with SQL and experience with SQL database design in a business setting
- 2+ years’ experience with data models, data quality assurance, and ELT/ETL systems
- Excellent numerical and analytical skills
- Needs to be able to work cross-functionally and collaborate with BI power users, analysts, software engineers, and data scientists to meet data requirements
- Comfortable with unit testing/regression testing data formats across different versions of the data products
Additional Ideal Experience
- Master’s degree in data engineering or related technical field
- Experience with AWS, Python scripting and Notebooks, Sigma, Fivetran, dbt, High touch reverse ETL, and Snowflake in a business setting
- Experience with AWS architecture: Lambda functions, S3 buckets, Data Streaming.
- Experience with parsing out custom text log file, xml, and json file formats
- Familiarity with different types of data masking : SHA, hash, etc.
- Familiarity with data science and machine learning concepts
- Familiarity with the Agile Scrum frameworks and Product Management tools such as Atlassian Jira and Confluence
- Experience with identifying and fixing issues in existing reports or dashboards in BI tools, to ensure data accuracy and clarity for end users.
We look for Xceptional people to join our team.Do you have the X-Factor?
Team Player:
Are you a joiner? Are you comfortable working outside of the boundaries of your job description to support the company and team?
Respected:
Do you value integrity and display leadership qualities? Are you trusted to represent the brand well?
Judiciously Courageous:
Are you courageous enough to judiciously speak up?
Composed:
Are you composed, respectful, and calm? Do you value outcomes over output?
Accountable:
Do you own your work, your decisions, and the outcomes – good or bad?
No Ego:
Are you confident without having an ego? Would people say you are an active listener? Do you delegate where necessary, knowing that you can’t possibly know it all?
Builder Mindset:
Do you have an open mindset? Would you consider yourself a strategic doer?
Focused:
Do you easily differentiate between real problems and background noise?
Additional Details
Position Type:
Full-Time
Classification:
Exempt
Category/Level:
Professional
Supervisory:
No
Travel:
Minimal
About CreditXpert Inc.
What makes CreditXpert an Employer of Choice
- Meaningful Mission!
- Creative, Performance Driven Culture
- Great Healthcare Benefits - most are 100% company paid
- Generous Paid Leave
- Hybrid Environment and Flexibility to work remote
- Stellar Workspace - great location/hassle free parking
- Professional Development and Tuition Assistant - we truly value continuous improvement and want to support your journey
Who we are
CreditXpert Inc. is a successful software company that enjoys the freedom to chart its own path. Our team is a small, close-knit community, where each person can make a big impact. We are nimble and have thrived for over 20 years in the midst of constant industry and regulatory upheaval. We believe in using our talents to make a positive impact on the world by improving the financial lives of Americans. As lifelong learners, we have a passion for change and we constantly adapt everything (our business, internal processes, tools…). We enjoy a wide diversity of backgrounds and opinions, which can lead to passionate debates.
We wear multiple hats, often stretch beyond our comfort zone, and see failure as an opportunity to learn. We have fun inventing advanced analytical solutions and creating great user experiences.
What we do
In 2000, we started a revolution by exposing the inner workings of the credit scoring industry to consumers, pioneering a new industry. Millions of people have been using our tools to take control of their credit life, gain access to better loans, and save money. More recently, we enabled the mortgage origination industry to replace guesswork with technology when trying to improve credit scores. As a result, more consumers now qualify for a mortgage at a good rate, and thousands of loan officers, mortgage lenders and other businesses can better serve their customers.
Benefits
We strive to create a great experience for our team, not just our customers. We want everyone to be excited about their work, fulfilled and worry-free. That’s why we offer lots of autonomy, support, and the flexibility you need to balance your life. Our compensation and benefits package ensures that you can focus all your energy on creating value for our customers and the company.Our benefits include a flexible and hybrid work environment, open PTO, performance based annual bonuses, company contribution to 401(k), insurance (medical, dental, vision, ST/LT disability, life), HSA and FSA.
Work Environment
This job generally operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, scanners, and shared digital files.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust and focus. Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee in this position.
Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Salary Description$90-100K + Bonus
