Freddie Mac

Senior Data Engineer

23 December 2024
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Deadline date:
£49000 - £92000 / year

Job Description

What will you do:

  • Work closely with team members and stakeholders to turn business problems into analytical projects, translated requirements, and solutions

  • Work cross-functionally with teams on data migration, translation, and organizational initiatives

  • Translate large volumes of raw, unstructured data into highly visual and easily digestible formats

  • Develop and manage data pipelines for predictive analytics modeling, model lifecycle management, and deployment (Extract-Load-Transform, ELT)

  • Recommend ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality

  • Help create, maintain, and implement tools, libraries, and systems to increase the efficiency and scalability of the team

  • Develop and maintain proper controls and governance for data access

  • Communicate data-related challenges and help to prioritize resolutions based on alignment with organizational goals

  • Consult and assist consumers of XE managed data

What will you bring:

  • Ability to critically analyze data, testing hypothesis, and validating data quality

  • Ability to problem solve and to test and implement new technologies and tools

  • Solid grasp of data systems and how they interact with each other

  • Exceptional analytical skills to detect the source and resolution of highly complex problems

  • Proficient Python programming skills are required and experience with Python-based analysis frameworks such as pandas, pyspark and pyarrow a plus

  • Experience with Starburst, Snowflake and other Cloud Data Warehousing / Data Lake preferred

  • Excellent data manipulation skills required, namely using SQL and the Python Scientific stack (pandas, numpy, sci-kit learn)

  • Experience extracting unstructured data from REST APIs, NoSQL databases, and object storage (Ceph/S3)

  • Experience with Linux system administration, shell scripting, and virtualization technology (containers) is required

  • Mastery of git (version control) and experience with versioning, merge request, review, etc. processes and techniques is required

  • Experience with distributed computing frameworks (eg., dask, pyspark) preferred

  • OpenShift application development and administration is a plus

  • Experience deploying applications using PaaS technologies (e.g,. OpenShift, Airflow) is a plus

  • Well-versed and a desire to stay on top of the current industry landscape of computer software, programming languages, and technology

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field (e.g., Computer Science or Software Engineering) with 5+ years of relevant working experience or Masters degree with 3+ years of working experience

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