Data Engineer II, Banking

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Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.
For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.
Data Engineer
Adyen is looking for a Data Engineer II to join the Bank Reporting team in Chicago. Merchants use the products built by the Reporting teams to understand their usage of the Adyen platform in detail and perform financial reconciliation. This is a key workflow for our merchants’ continued use of our financial products. As a result, this role requires a solid understanding of both the business context and its data needs, with a focus on building high-quality data pipelines on our Big Data Platform.

As a Data Engineer at Adyen, you will be instrumental in maintaining our data infrastructure and ensuring smooth data flows across systems, as well as understanding how the Adyen platform works at a deep level and translating that complexity into simplicity for our merchants.

• Collaborative Solution Development
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  Engage with a diverse range of stakeholders, including data scientists, analysts, software engineers, product managers, and customers, to understand their requirements and craft effective solutions.
• Quality Pipelines and Architecture
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  Design, develop, deploy and operate high-quality production ELT pipelines and data architectures. Integrate data from various sources and formats, ensuring compatibility, consistency, and reliability.
• Data Best Practices
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  Help establish and share best practices in performance, code quality, data validation, data governance, and discoverability in your team and in other teams. Participate in mentoring and knowledge sharing initiatives.
• High Quality Data and Code
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  Ensure data is accurate, complete, reliable, relevant, and timely. Implement testing, monitoring and validation protocols for your code and data, leveraging tools such as Pytest.
• Performance Optimization
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  Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in data pipelines and systems. Improve query performance and resource utilization to meet SLAs and performance requirements, using technologies Spark optimizations.

• Experienced in Big Data:
  Around 3 years of experience working as a Data Engineer or in a similar role.
• Technical
  
  Skills:
  
  Proficient in tools and frameworks such as Python, PySpark, Airflow, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Druid, SQL or similar data tools.
• Clear Communicator:
  Able to effectively communicate complex data-related concepts and outcomes to a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Self-starter:
  Capable of identifying opportunities, devising solutions, and handling projects independently.
• Innovator:
  You have an experimental mindset with a ‘launch fast and iterate’ mentality.
• Data Culture Champion:
  Skilled in promoting a data-centric culture within technical teams and advocating for setting standards and continuous improvement.

Data positions at Adyen

We know companies have different definitions for their data-related positions - for instance, various company sizes may approach data positions differently. Since creating Data as a standalone discipline at Adyen, we have categorized and defined all our positions. Have a look at this blogpost to find out more information about how Data positions look at Adyen.

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