Sr Data Engineer

Job Type

Full Time Regular Opportunity

General Description

As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll hold a pivotal senior position within the Data Engineering function of Enterprise Data & Analytics division. In this critical role, you will orchestrate engineering activities across AWS, Informatica IDMC, and Snowflake platforms, ensuring robust and scalable data solutions that drive our data ecosystem forward. You'll lead a talented team of engineers and consultants, mentoring them to foster innovation and excellence while promoting best practices. Collaborating with multiple pillars across the division, you will align engineering efforts with organizational goals. This role will lay the modern foundation of the engineering unit, creating a strong data infrastructure, enabling advanced analytics and data-driven decision-making. By leveraging cloud-native technologies and data integration frameworks, you'll transform how we ingest, process, and deliver data assets across the enterprise. The ideal candidate brings deep technical knowledge alongside the leadership acumen to influence cross-functional teams and executives, positioning our data engineering capabilities as a competitive advantage in the financial services landscape. You will collaborate with multifaceted teams of specialists spread across various locations to offer a broad spectrum of data and analytics solutions. You will address complicated challenges and propel advancement within the Enterprise Data & Analytics function

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Design and implement comprehensive AWS data pipeline leveraging S3 data lake architecture, Glue ETL workflows, and serverless data processing solutions using Lambda and Step Functions for event-driven architecture.
• Establish robust security, monitoring, and automation through implementation of IAM roles and policies for secure access controls, CloudWatch monitoring and alerting for pipeline health and performance metrics.
• Build and optimize Snowflake data pipelines utilizing Streams and Tasks for incremental processing, Snowpipe for continuous data loading, and stored procedures for complex transformations.
• Configure and maintain Snowflake security features including role-based access control, Dynamic Data Masking, Row Access Policies, query optimization to manage compute costs effectively.
• Develop and maintain IDMC Cloud Data Integration mappings and workflows for complex data transformation requirements, utilizing appropriate transformation types (Router, Joiner, Aggregator, Lookup) and implementing parameterization for reusable and flexible pipeline components.
• Develop automated data validation frameworks between Informatica IDMC and Snowflake to ensure data integrity
• Have a solid understanding of delivery methodology (SDLC) and lead teams in the implementation of the solution according to the design / architecture.
• Implement Informatica PowerCenter to Informatica IDMC migration strategies for legacy data integration workflows
• Lead cross-functional engineering teams through agile methodologies, sprint planning, and delivery management
• Participate as active agile team members to help drive feature refinement, user story completion, code review, etc.
• Collaborate with Data governance team and Implement data governance frameworks ensuring compliance with banking regulations (GDPR, CCPA, PCI-DSS).
• Establish CI / CD practices for data engineering assets using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and AWS Code Pipeline.
• Optimize data platform performance through query tuning, compute resource management, and architectural enhancements.
• Develop data quality monitoring solutions that provide visibility into data completeness, accuracy, and timeliness.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for engineering processes, architecture decisions, and system configurations
• Monitor and troubleshoot production data pipelines to ensure reliability and minimize business disruption
• Establish testing practices including unit, integration, and performance testing for data engineering solutions
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend strategic adoption to enhance data engineering capabilities
• Define and track key performance metrics for data engineering operations, identifying areas for improvement
• Lead knowledge transfer sessions and technical training to upskill junior engineers and consultants
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture teams to align data engineering solutions with broader technology strategies
• Represent the data engineering pillar in cross-divisional planning sessions and strategic initiatives, advocating for necessary resources and priorities

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Data Engineering, Statistics, or a related field.

Certifications / Licenses (Optional)

Cloud-based analytical services, showcasing extensive knowledge of cloud platforms for data analytics and machine learning

Experience

Other Qualifications

Region Locations

Hybrid opportunity from Rosemont, IL or San Juan, PR

Values

Passion for People

Succeed Together

Own Every Moment

Build the Future

Base Salary & Benefits

Our base salary for this position located in Rosemont, IL generally ranges between $165,000 and $175,000 annually, depending on business needs and, on your qualifications, and experience. Base salary does not include incentive compensation, commissions, or any other type of remuneration or benefits. In addition to salary, Popular's well-rounded benefits package for regular full-time and part-time employees includes a comprehensive health plan, flexible time off options, and savings and investment plans. Seasonal / temporary employees are not eligible for these benefits."

Important : The candidate must provide evidence of academic preparation or courses related to the job posting, if necessary.

ABOUT US

Popular is Puerto Rico's leading financial institution and have been evolving since it was founded over a century ago. From a small bank it has developed into a large corporation that offer a wide variety of services and financial solutions to our customers, with presence in the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America.

As employees, we are dedicated to making our customers dreams come true by offering financial solutions in each stage of their life. Our extensive trajectory demonstrates the resiliency and determination of our employees to innovate, reach for the right solutions and strongly support the communities we serve; therefore, we value their diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds.

We reaffirm our commitment to always offer essential financial services and solutions for our customers and communities, including during emergency situations and / or natural disasters. Popular's employees are considered essential workers, whose role is critical in the continuity of these important services even under such circumstances. By applying to this position, you acknowledge that Popular may require your services during and immediately after any such events.

If you have a disability or need more information about requesting an accommodation, please contact us at asesorialaboral@popular.com. This email inbox is monitored for such types of requests only . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed exemptions or reasonable accommodations. Any other correspondence will not receive a response.

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Popular is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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