Federal Reserve System
Data and Analytics Engineer
Job Description
Company
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation’s central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.
Data management and analytics are growing areas of emphasis across the Federal Reserve System. As a software engineer within the Data Utility Office (DUO) you will be an integral part of a dynamic team building and supporting data centric products (e.g. automated data pipelines, machine learning/Artificial Intelligence solutions contributing to our mission of ‘Connecting People to Data’. This position will work as part of a lean, collaborative, agile team developing primarily within the AWS environment. This position requires versatility, a growth mindset, ability to work with ambiguous direction, a ruthless desire to automate tedious tasks, and the ability to work well in diverse, cross-functional and virtual teams. Projects will range in duration and complexity, and they will require direct consultation with business partners, technical subject matter experts, and IT service providers.
Key Activities
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Apply the principles of software engineering to the design, implementation, configuration, and optimization of solutions in support of pipelines, databases, and test automation tools.
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Integrate data from disparate sources, ensuring data quality, consistency, and integrity throughout the extraction, transformation, and load process.
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Establish continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for automating the testing, building, and deployment of code supporting machine learning/artificial intelligence models and data repositories.
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Implement automated processes monitoring the performance of production models and periodically retrain models to ensure accuracy and relevancy over time.
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Integrate models and repositories with other cloud services, applications or APIs to enable seamless interactions and data exchange across different systems and platforms.
Basic Qualifications
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Typically requires at least 3 years of relevant experience.
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Bachelor’s degree specializing in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or a closely related field, from an accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of directly related education and/or experience.
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience writing and maintaining production python code.
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Experience with unit testing and test-driven development in python.
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Experience building and maintaining python packages.
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Experience with python data processing libraries such as pandas.
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Experience with AWS or other public cloud providers.
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Experience working with cloud native technologies such as Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
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Experience working with and developing Restful Web APIs.
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Experience working with agile teams and methodologies.
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Experience with GitOps, DevOps and continuous integration/continuous delivery..
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Experience with authentication and authorization technologies (e.g. Oauth2, SAML, Active Directory).
Additional Information
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Location(s):
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Hybrid – Kansas City, MO or Denver, CO
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Remote Eligible – No
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Screening Requirements: This position has additional screening requirements due to the information accessed while performing the job. These additional screenings would be initiated at the time of offer acceptance and can take up to a couple of months to be completed. You can begin work before the screening is completed; however, continued employment is contingent on acceptable screening results. The areas screened may include education/employment verification, criminal history, credit history, and reference checks.
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Sponsorship: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future this time, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
About Us
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Full Time / Part Time
Full time
Regular / Temporary
Regular
Job Exempt (Yes / No)
Yes
Job Category
Information Technology
Work Shift
First (United States of America)
The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.
