Data Platform Engineer II
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Job Location:
Wilmington, DE - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Best Egg is a market-leading tech-enabled financial platform helping people build financial confidence through a variety of installment lending solutions and financial health tools. We aim to help customers make smart financial decisions and stay on track so they can be money confident no matter what life throws at them.
We offer top-tier benefits and growth opportunities in a culture built on our core values:
Put People First We foster an inclusive flexible and fun workplace.
Create Clarity Open communication drives trust and results.
Get Things Done We focus prioritize and deliver with excellence.
Deliver with Heart We lead with kindness humility and strong teamwork.
Listen to Our Customers Their needs drive our innovation.
Barclays has entered into an agreement to acquire Best Egg withclosing expected to take placein Q2 2026. This acquisition will give us the resources and capital to continue on our mission and drive our strategy forward. With an aligned culture lower cost of funds and increased employee growth opportunities across a global brand we are excited about the future of the Best Egg brand under the Barclays umbrella.
We are looking for collaborative innovative team players who like to solve problems. There will also be immense opportunities for those willing to dive in. If youre inspired by growth and want to make a real difference Best Egg is the place for you.
Were proud to be an equal opportunity employercommitted to building a diverse inclusive team.
At Best Egg were a cloudfirst organization embracing new ideas modern tooling and forwardleaning architecture. We work closely with Snowflake AWS & other partners to push our data platform forward and unlock new ways to deliver value. Snowflake powers our analytics foundation supported by eventdriven patterns Python Postgres JSON data and AWS data lake. We deploy through a modern CI/CD and InfrastructureasCode pipeline running workloads across both managed containers and serverless environments always choosing the right tool for the job.
Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Data Platform Engineer II to join our team. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise across data platforms data management data products SQL cloudfirst engineering and modern DevOps practices as a seasoned data engineer with a track record of owning complex data initiatives endtoend. Experience with Snowflake and AWS is strongly preferred. Must be an advisor and confidante on data governance best practices and platform maturity. This is not a junior or entrylevel role we are looking for someone who brings depth judgment and leadership.
In this role you will lead the design development and scaling of our data platform capabilities. You will work across diverse data domains drive data discovery for new and evolving requirements and build robust data transfer and migration solutions. You will also play a key role in advancing our data governance and data product maturity ensuring our platform is reliable scalable and aligned with bestinclass engineering standards. You should be equally comfortable acting as an independent contributor a team player and a advisor.
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated engineer who is passionate about building improving and maturing data ecosystems. If you thrive in cloudnative environments enjoy solving complex data challenges and want to influence the direction of our data strategy we encourage you to apply.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design build and deploy data platform components across Snowflake AWS and the broader technology stack.
- Architect implement and support data capabilities including automations integrations interfaces and underlying infrastructure.
- Develop maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines to ensure reliable and repeatable data delivery.
- Implement and manage monitoring logging and alerting frameworks to ensure the availability quality and performance of data assets.
- Serve as a data leader data champion and subjectmatter expert for engineering product and business teams providing mentorship and guidance to junior engineers.
- Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to identify troubleshoot and solve complex technical and datarelated challenges.
- Ensure adherence to security privacy and compliance standards including SOC2 and PCIDSS.
Required Skills:
- 7 years of experience in data management and ETL/ELT development with a strong focus on building highquality scalable data products.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Handson experience with AWS services such as Lambda S3 serverless architectures and containerized workloads (e.g. Docker).
- Strong background in DevOps practices automation and modern deployment workflows.
- Experience with configuration management tools
- Proven experience designing building and maturing data products and data platform capabilities.
- Experience working across both onpremises data environments and cloudfirst architectures.
- Excellent analytical and problemsolving skills.
- Strong communication collaboration and leadership abilities.
Recommended Skills:
- Experience with Snowflake
- Experience with Monte Carlo Observability Tool
- Experience with AWS serverless technologies (e.g. lambda step functions fargate)
- Knowledge of GitHub products (actions workspaces secrets etc)
$115000 - $140000 a year
This position is also eligible for an annual incentive bonus based on individual and company performance. Yearly incentive bonus target 20% of base salary.
Employee Benefits
Best Egg offers many additional benefits for our employees including (but not limited to):
Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching
program
Generous paid time-off plans including vacation personal/sick time paid short--
term and long-term disability leaves paid parental leave and paid company
holidays
Multiple health care plans to choose from including dental and vision options
Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care Dependent Care and Health
Reimbursement Accounts
Company-paid benefits such as life insurance wellness platforms employee
assistance programs and Health Advocate programs
Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection pet insurance
fitness center reimbursements and many more!
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We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Apache Hive
- S3
- Hadoop
- Redshift
- Spark
- AWS
- Apache Pig
- NoSQL
- Big Data
- Data Warehouse
- Kafka
- Scala
About Company
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