Senior Data Engineer

Job #: 3042335

Location: Jersey City, New Jersey (Onsite)

Employment Type: Contract

Contract Duration: 12 Months

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to develop, enhance, and maintain applications within Financial Crimes technology. This role involves designing, coding, testing, and debugging programs while providing insight from a data perspective. The position requires collaboration with business partners to define requirements and a commitment to advancing the organization's technological capabilities.

• Develop complex requirements for applications in Financial Crimes technology.
• Design, code, test, debug, and document programs, and support application maintenance.
• Collaborate with business partners to define system application requirements.
• Contribute to story refinement and estimate the work required for delivery.
• Set up and automate continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Manage technical aspects of the application, including change management, maintenance, and platform upgrades.
• Develop innovative data provisioning models to support large-scale financial crimes data sourcing initiatives.
• Promote and apply best practices and standards at a project and program level.
• Analyze present-state processes, develop future-state approaches, and facilitate implementation.

Education: A Bachelor of Science or Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline is required.

Experience: A minimum of 10 years of applicable experience is required. This includes experience with database‑intensive development, data migrations, conversions, and SQL performance tuning. The candidate should have experience with the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) in an Agile environment.

• Teradata 16.x, SQL/BTEQ scripting, TPT
• Informatica 10.x
• UNIX Shell scripting
• Autosys
• Cloudera CDP, Hadoop (Hive, Impala, PySpark, Scala)
• Data analysis, data sourcing, and data modeling
• CI/CD tools:
  Jira, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible

• Business knowledge in financial domains, particularly related to Anti‑Money Laundering (AML) and Financial Crimes.
• Experience engaging with business stakeholders for requirements discovery.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.