Cloud Data Engineer

$90,200 - $123,970/Yr

Federal Reserve Bank - Richmond, VA

Part-time,Full-time - Mid Level

Richmond, VA

Monetary Authorities-Central Bank

About the position

The Cloud Data Engineer position at the Federal Reserve involves collaborating with a diverse team to enhance the bank's data and analytics capabilities. The role focuses on developing and implementing cloud-based data solutions, utilizing advanced technologies to support the bank's mission. The engineer will work cross-functionally to build infrastructure as code, automate processes, and contribute to the strategic direction of data services within the organization.

Responsibilities

• Understand technology vision and strategic direction of business needs
• Develop product roadmaps in alignment with other data products and business roadmaps
• Design integrated solutions in alignment with design patterns, blueprints, guidelines, and standard methodologies for products
• Participate in defining technical requirements for enabling data analytics within an AWS cloud environment
• Participate in developing architecture and design conceptual solutions incorporating cloud native and 3rd party vendor products
• Provide analysis of current state, future state, and define key outcomes for an IT data platform strategy
• Participate in research and perform POCs with emerging technologies and adopt industry best practices in the data space
• Demonstrate automation through Infrastructure as code to increase build efficiency in the cloud
• Develop scripting to integrate multiple data sources to data and analytics platform
• Build platform supporting rehydration and HA
• Build end to end automation to support and maintain software currency
• Create automation services for builds using Terraform, Python, and OS shell scripts
• Develop validation and certification process through automation tools
• Develop multi-layered build, installation, configuration, patching, regression testing, and rollback scripts in each environment
• Integrate platforms to form a cohesive data mesh and help democratize data
• Create patching process to compare different versions of the configuration settings
• Provide consulting and guidance on business solution development in the data and analytics space and cloud technologies
• Demonstrate leadership, collaboration, exceptional communication, negotiation, strategic and influencing skills to gain consensus and produce the best solutions
• Engage with Senior leadership, business leaders at the Federal Reserve and the Board to share the business value
• Promote collaboration across business and IT organizations

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience; advanced degree preferred
• 5+ years in designing and building data services with all aspects of cloud design, development, and implementation
• 3+ years of experience with full stack development, including application, API, testing, and automation experience using at least one of the following languages (Terraform, JSON, Python)
• 3+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting solutions hosted either on-prem or in the cloud, and experience with migrating data to the cloud
• Advanced proficiency in cloud specific solutions related to gateways, streaming services, or file and database migration services
• Experience with leveraging CI/CD pipelines and GitLab
• Hands on experience in Terraform, Python, and OS shell scripts including automation tools
• Hands on experience in one or more languages such as Java, JavaScript
• Experience with other AWS data related services including various compute and storage offerings
• Experience with RDS, NOSQL Databases, RDBMS and in-memory databases
• Strong background in data structures, networking, performance, and scalability
• Must be familiar with Agile methodologies and able to work in an Agile manner
• Must have a very strong application development background

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with distributed SQL query engine such as Trino
• Microservices experience is strongly preferred

Benefits

• Great medical benefits
• Pension and 401(k) with employer match
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee resource networks
• Paid volunteer leave
• Flexible work options
• Onsite amenities that make working here fun!