Data Engineering Specialist
Job Summary
Job Summary
The Data Engineering Specialist works on different projects of data engineering to support the use cases data ingestion pipeline data warehouse data lake and enterprise big data platform with multi-datacenter contexts and identify potential process or data warehousing issues. Identify the architecture infrastructure and interface to data sources tools supporting automated data loads security concerns analytical models and data visualization. The Data Engineer team supports marketing analytic teams with analytical tools that enable our analytics and business communities to do their job easier faster and smarter. The team brings together data from different internal & external partners and builds a curated Marketing analytics focused data & tools ecosystem. The Data Engineer plays a crucial role in building this ecosystem depending on the Marketing analytics communities need.Essential Job Functions
Project Management: Buildsdata pipeline for various data sources particularly from many external data sources such as brand data and other data from vendors and ingestion of public data sources. Workswith other project team members to understand the use cases familiar with data sources providesrecommendation on data ingestion processes complete data ingestion monitor and identify potential process or data quality issues. Collaborateswith internal/external stakeholders to manage data logistics including data specifications transfers structures and rules.
Collaboration - Collaborates with internal/external stakeholders to manage data logistics including data specifications transfers structures and rules. Collaborates with business users business analysts and technical architects in transforming business requirements into analytical workbenches tools and dashboards reflecting usability best practices and current design analytical interpersonal and professional communication skills. Learns quickly and works effectively individually and as part of a team.
Process Improvement - Accesses extracts and transformsCredit and Retail data from a variety of sources of all sizes (including client marketing databases 2ndand 3rdparty data) using Hadoop Spark SQL Big data technologies help to analytical teams around data centric needs using orchestration tools SQL and possibly other big data/cloud solutions for efficiency improvement.
Project Support- SupportsSr. Specialist and Specialist in new analytical proof of concepts and tool exploration projects. Effectively managestime and computing resources in order to deliver on time/correctly on concurrent projects. Involved in creating POCs to ingest and process streaming data using Spark and HDFS.
Data and Analytics - Answersand trouble shootsquestions about data sets and analytical tools; Develops maintainsand enhancesnew and existing analytics tools/Frameworks to support internal customers/consumers. Ingestsdata from different sources process it according to the requirement document in order to store data to Hive or NoSQL database or different warehousing solutions. Managesdata coming from different sources involved in HDFS maintenance and loading of structured and unstructured data. Appliesknowledge in Agile Scrum methodology that leverages the ClientBigDataplatform and used version control tool Git.
Technical Skills - Ensure database designs efficiently. Drive continual improvement and enhancement of existing systems. Collaborate with Data Architects/Engineers for data model management documentation and version control. Capture CDE (Critical Data Elements) and work with Business/Data Engineers to translate into Edit check rules Data Quality check scenarios. Experience on project management framework Agile (Jira toolset). Analysis and query on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
Expert in ER studio Business process management tool. Expert knowledge on metadata management and related tools. Exposure Azure data environment and familiarity with associated tools would be added advantage. Knowledge and experience in developing software using agile methodologies. Exhaustive experience in Dimensional modeling for Data Marts. Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision. Experience in modelling a third normal form Star / Snowflake Data Warehouse system. Good experience in Data Profiling and Analysis
Reports to:Manageror above
Working Conditions/ Physical Requirements:Normal office environment
Direct Reports: 0
MinimumRequirements:
DegreeRequired: Bachelors Degree
Area of Study: Computer Science Information Systems
Years of Work ExperienceRequired: 8 years
Type / focus of work experience required: IT SQL Hadoop Ecosystems Data warehouse Data Modelling
Other Duties
This job description is illustrative of the types of duties typically performed by this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of each and every essential function of the job. Because job content may change from time to time the Company reserves the right to add and/or delete essential functions from this job at any time.
About Bread Financial
At Bread Financial youll have the opportunity to grow your career give back to your community and be part of our award-winning culture. Weve been consistently recognized as a best place to work nationally and in many markets and were proud to promote an environment where you feel appreciated accepted valued and fulfilledboth personally and professionally. Bread Financial supports the overall wellness of our associates with a diverse suite of benefits and offers boundless opportunities for career development and non-traditional career progression.
Bread Financial(NYSE: BFH) is a tech-forward financial services company that provides simple personalized payment lending and saving solutions to millions of U.S. payment solutions deliver growth for some of the most recognized brands in travel & entertainment health & beauty technology electronics jewelry home and specialty apparel through ourco-brand and private label credit cards and pay-over-time products providing choice and value to our shared we offer Bread Financial general purpose credit cards and saving products that empower our customers and their passions for a better life.
Bread Financial proudly marks 30 years of success in 2026. To learn more about our global associates our performance and our sustainability progressvisit follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn.
All job offers are contingent upon successful completion of credit and background checks.
Bread Financial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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RegularRequired Experience:
IC
About Company
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