Database Engineer in Test

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia is one of the 12 regional Reserve Banks that, together with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up the Federal Reserve System.

It helps formulate and implement monetary policy, supervises banks and bank and savings and loan holding companies, and provides financial services to depository institutions and the federal government.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia serves eastern and central Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware.

You will work full-time on site in Philadelphia, PA.

The job description below is a dual grade job posting.

Candidates who have a slightly lower level of experience, education, or qualifications may also be considered.

Job Summary :

You will design and enhance testing, data validation, and quality assurance processes for automated data -centric applications supporting highly complex business scenarios.

You possess comprehensive operational knowledge across all testing phases and work independently on sophisticated quality assurance initiatives.

You will direct low-level engineers, review their work and may perform as an individual contributor and / or lead data testing for complex systems.

With your proficiency in testing and quality assurance, you'll handle critical projects with significant decision-making autonomy.

What You Will Do :

Data / ETL Test Design and Execution

Design and develop comprehensive data verification and validation for backend data-oriented systems and ETL processes using modern tools, languages, data processing frameworks, and databases approved for use at FRS as applicable.

Use scripting / programming languages with a modern IDE and source code management.

Develop automated solutions, using scheduling, CI / CD jobs, or application event triggers as available.

Work with structured and unstructured data from a variety of data stores, such as data lakes, relational database management systems, and data warehouses.

Technical Leadership

Investigate and implement technologies and frameworks that could contribute to process improvements.

Take the lead in improving best practices that benefit all team members performing data testing.

Recommend methods based on your experiences in testing and exploring new technologies.

Data Visualization Testing

Develop solutions for testing data visualizations using common visualization platforms.

Team Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing

Mentor less-experienced team members by providing direction and guidance.

Participate and promote team discussions and contribute to a collaborative work environment.

Participation and Compliance

Participate in Bank, department, or system projects of high to highest complexity.

Demonstrate Core Competency skills for grade and position.

Involved in the accomplishment of departmental and Bank wide quality initiatives.

Comply with all applicable information security policies, guidelines and practices.

What You Have :

• Excellent written and oral communications skills.

Independently, presents both orally and in writing, findings, and assessments; prepare and present information and responses to complex inquiries; demonstrate the ability to manage the communication process; communicate with clients, colleagues and management to explain complex issues; transfer technical knowledge; diffuse conflict and build consensus.

Has a meticulous and organized approach to work.

Identifies and assesses complex supervisory issues; effectively manages highly complex situations to meet the department’s objectives and goals.

An awareness of current issues affecting the industry and its technologies.

Education and Experience :

This posting is a dual grade job posting.

Candidates who have a slightly lower level of experience, education, or qualifications may also be considered.

The salary grade for this position is : 16 / 15.

Final salary and offer will be determined by the applicant's background, experience and skills, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

We offer a great benefits package that features :

Additional Information :

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia staff will only email you from the “@phil.frb.org” domain or through the Workday system “rb@myworkday.com”.

If you are initially contacted by phone, feel free to request that the caller provide you with their email address to validate their identity.

If you have any questions about the validity of someone who contacts you regarding this position, please email the Talent Acquisition team at TalentAcquisition@phil.frb.org.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at TalentAcquisition@phil.frb.org.

If you or your spouse / domestic partner or minor child own such securities and would not be willing or able to divest them if you accepted an offer of Bank employment, you should raise this issue with the Recruiter for this posting, who can provide you contact information for our ethics officer if necessary.

You should review the Bank's Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict-of-interest rules and personal investment restrictions.

Candidates for positions deemed as "safety sensitive" will also be screened for the presence of marijuana.

Employment may not begin until the Bank accepts the results of the background investigation.

You will provide work authorization to prove your eligibility to work in the United States.

They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities associated with this position or the personnel so classified.

While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of this position, management reserves the right to revise this or any job description at its discretion at any time.

By applying to this position, you agree you will be available to work on-site in a full-time capacity.

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Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Information Technology Family Group

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

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