Hybrid Principal Software Engineer – Data Solution Implementation, Hadoop

at PNC

• Job title: Principal Software Engineer – Data Solution Implementation, Hadoop
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $65,000 - $165,600 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Airflow, Apache, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Docker, ETL, Hadoop, Java, Jenkins, Kafka, Kubernetes, PySpark, Scala, Spark, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Strongsville, United States

About the role

• Software Engineer Principal designing and implementing data solutions using cutting-edge technologies at PNC. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure data quality and governance.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement data solutions using cutting-edge technologies
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Contribute to data governance and quality initiatives
• Designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines using cloud platforms and big data technologies
• Developing and optimizing data warehousing solutions to ensure high availability and performance
• Implementing data modeling techniques to support analytics and reporting needs
• Ensuring data quality, governance, and compliance across all data processes
• Monitoring and maintain data systems, implementing alerting mechanisms to ensure reliability
• Participating in Agile/SAFe ceremonies, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives

Requirements

• Proven expertise in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Flink)
• Experience with data governance, quality management, and compliance
• Proficiency in programming languages such as PySpark, Scala, SQL, and Java
• Strong experience with ETL processes, data modeling, and data warehousing
• Familiarity with DevOps tools and CI/CD workflows (e.g., Git, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of monitoring and alerting tools for data systems
• Experience with mainframe technologies and COBOL is a plus.
• Certifications such as AWS Certified Data Engineer, Agile/SAFe Practitioner, or Apache Hadoop
• Experience with data pipeline orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow)
• Background in working with large-scale, distributed systems.

Benefits

• medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
• dental and vision options
• employee and spouse/child life insurance
• short and long-term disability protection
• 401(k) with PNC match
• pension and stock purchase plans
• dependent care reimbursement account
• back-up child/elder care
• adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
• educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
• a robust wellness program with financial incentives
• maternity and/or parental leave
• up to 11 paid holidays each year
• 8 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
• between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service.