Principal Data Engineer

Work Location:

Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States of America

Hours:

40 Pay Details: $148,720 - $223,080 USD TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience  compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

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Technology Solutions

The Principal Data Engineer provides senior technical expertise with a focus on bank and industry-wide solutions that address capability gaps to create significant value for customers. This role implements solutions, ensuring efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security; includes planning, evaluating, recommending, designing, operationalizing, and supporting solutions in an industry-leading manner. This role provides deep technical leadership, sets direction in developing and implementing solutions to address Platform and Journey's emerging business needs and strategies, as well as efficiency opportunities from a technical perspective.

This role advances the overall design, architecture, and technology capabilities in accordance with industry developments.

Leading authority on data engineering concepts, principals, practices and standards
Thought leader on IT risk-based approaches to data engineering and on other domains in technology control / information security fields
Sets the direction and oversees the work of other Data Engineering professionals on complex, highly-visible projects of significant profile, strategic importance, and enterprise impact to the bank
Establishes and leads Data engineering working groups to achieve goals that impact multiple Journeys and Platform
Provides consultative and strategic guidance to executive leadership
Engineering specialist assigned to work autonomously on high profile, complex and high-risk technology initiatives with significant impact to the organization
Has a blend of skills in data engineering, data management, architecture, solutions architecture, application security and coding
Primarily works at the enterprise level
Typically reports to the data engineering practice owner

University or Graduate / post graduate degree in Data Management or related Computer Science or Engineering discipline; or equivalent practical experience 15+ years of relevant experience in field of specialization

Responsible for advancing data engineering practices through processes and tools, setting development and design standards at business unit and/or enterprise level
Executes on Data Engineering strategy as it relates to the introduction of tools, automation and better delivery processes, robust design practices, adoption of new and better paradigms across Application, Platform and Infrastructure
Leads the creation of solution options and ultimately a comprehensive end-to-end solution and coordinates relevant stakeholders, as required to support development initiatives; following a (build it, break it, fix it mentality)
Responsible for developing and documenting detailed solution design and acts as an application SME through the design and development lifecycle ensuring alignment with Architecture
Accountable for complex applications/ systems development, programming / coding
Develops functional, technical and user interface designs for an application / system that meets the defined requirements (business, enterprise architecture direction, system performance and development standards)
Consults on development of requirements and specifications and apply functional knowledge of business functions to design optimal software / systems
Reviews technical deliverables throughout detailed design and development phase to ensure quality adherence and identify gaps or redesign requirements as needed
Identifies, recommends, sources, negotiates and implements improvements/ solutions (buy/build/reuse) to enhance customer experience, availability, and/or reduce cost in…