Hybrid Data Engineer

at Synchrony

• Job title: Data Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Hadoop, Java, Kafka, NoSQL, Python, Scala, Spark, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chicago, United States

About the role

• Big Data Engineer developing applications for Synchrony’s Enterprise Data Lake within an Agile scrum team. Collaborating to deliver high-quality data ingestion and maintain data governance standards.

Responsibilities

• Develop big data applications for Synchrony in Hadoop ecosystem
• Participate in the agile development process including backlog grooming , coding, code reviews , testing and deployment
• Work with team members to achieve business results in a fast paced and quickly changing environment
• Work independently to develop analytic applications leveraging technologies such as: Hadoop, NoSQL, In-memory Data Grids, Kafka, Spark, Ab Initio
• Provide data analysis for Synchrony’s data ingestion, standardization and curation efforts ensuring all data is understood from a business context
• Identify enablers and level of effort required to properly ingest and transform data for the data lake.
• Profile data to assist with defining the data elements, propose business term mappings, and define data quality rules
• Work with the Data Office to ensure that data dictionaries for all ingested and created data sets are properly documented in data dictionary repository
• Ensure the lineage of all data assets are properly documented in the appropriate enterprise metadata repositories
• Assist with the creation and implementation of data quality rules
• Ensure the proper identification of sensitive data elements and critical data elements
• Create source-to-target data mapping documents
• Test current processes and identify deficiencies
• Investigate program quality to make improvements to achieve better data accuracy
• Understand functional and non-functional requirement and prepare test data accordingly
• Plan, create and manage the test case and test script
• Identify process bottlenecks and suggest actions for improvement
• Execute test script and collect test results
• Present test cases, test results, reports and metrics as required by the Office of Agile
• Perform other duties as needed to ensure the success of the team and application and ensure the team’s compliance with the applicable Data Sourcing, Data Quality, and Data Governance standards

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree OR in lieu of Bachelor's degree, High School Diploma/ GED and minimum 2 years of Information Technology experience
• Minimum of 1 year of Hands-on experience writing shell scripts , complex SQL queries, Hive scripts, Hadoop commands and Git
• Ability to write abstracted, reusable code components
• Programming experience in at least one of the following languages: Scala, Java or Python
• Analytical mindset
• Willingness and aptitude to learn new technologies quickly
• Superior oral and written communication skills ; Ability to collaborate across teams of internal and external technical staff, business analysts, software support and operations staff.

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities