Senior Data Engineer

At Ascensus, technology is more than just a solution. It powers the business that helps millions of people save for what matters—retirement, education, and healthcare.  Our technology experts tackle exciting challenges in collaborative teams, but work in an environment where individual and career development is always valued.  Technology associates leverage their talents and passion, building new and innovative platforms, creating programs founded in automation in agile frameworks, and driving existing and new markets—all of which supports the rapid growth of a dynamic industry leader.

Section 1: Position Summary

As a Senior Data Engineer at Ascensus, you will enable data-driven decision making by collecting, transforming and visualizing the data. You will design, build, maintain and troubleshoot data processing systems with emphasis on security, reliability, fault-tolerance, scalability, fidelity, and efficiency. You will be part of the Enterprise Information Management (EIM) team.

Section 2: Job Functions, Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for protecting, securing, and proper handling of all confidential data held by Ascensus to ensure against unauthorized access, improper transmission, and/or unapproved disclosure of information that could result in harm to Ascensus or our clients.
• Our I-Client service philosophy and our Core Values of People Matter, Quality First and Integrity Always® should be visible in your actions on a day to day basis showing your support of our organizational culture.
• Design, build and maintain data structures and data processing systems (tools, infrastructure, frameworks, services).
  • Assist with EIM project definition and planning.
  • Implement and troubleshoot deployments.
• Data Modeling
  • Create conceptual, logical and physical data models.
  • Create Entity Relationship diagrams and Dimensional models.
• Data Integration
  • Services
    • Design and build data ingestion tools, metrics, alerts and notifications, metadata management.
    • Design and build data replication services and Change Data Capture (CDC) processes to incrementally update data in the data warehouse / data marts from Ascensus systems of record.
  • ETL development
    • Contribute to standards and best practices for implementing ETL tools in support of the EIM vision and reference architecture.
    • Build and maintain ETL solutions and platform.
    • Participate in creating long term ETL application support model.
• Data Warehouse and Data Marts
  • Develop technical standards and specifications addressing performance, security and orchestration of ETL and data warehouse / mart management.
  • Organize metadata and define processes for loading data into and extracting data from the warehouse / marts.
• Assist with other tasks and projects as assigned

Supervision  

• N/A

Section 3:  Experience, Skills, Knowledge Requirements

Required skills and experience

• 5+ years of relevant experience in data/software development, including data warehousing and ETL tools, techniques and technology.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including active listening. Asking appropriate questions, clarifying information and writing clear, concise documents.
• Strong knowledge of SQL.
• Very good understanding of data modeling techniques.
• Strong knowledge of Data Warehousing and ETL design/tools.
• Strong expertise in C# or other data related programming languages.
• Excellent SSIS skills.
• Extensive SQL Server experience and skills.
• Good experience with relational databases like Sybase ASE, Oracle, MySQL.
• Good knowledge of SSAS.

Preferred knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Experience with data modeling using IDERA’s Embarcadero ER/Studio Data Architect.
• Experience with PowerBI, Cognos Analytics and Cognos Framework Manager a plus.

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