Data Integration and Governance Analyst

• At World Business Lenders (WBL), we provide flexible, short-term commercial loans backed by real estate to help small and medium-sized businesses across the United States, particularly those facing difficulties with traditional financing.
• This position is a Contract/Consultant role with working hours typically from9:00 am-6:00 pm Eastern Standard Time, Monday through Friday. Applicants should have an excellent command of the English language, both spoken and written.
• We request that you submit your CV in English.

• Improved data pipelines (via automation) with quality checks to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and reliability throughout the entire data processing workflow, reducing manual intervention and minimizing errors.
• Migration of legacy systems to new systems, involving thorough analysis, seamless data transfer, and integration to enhance system performance and maintain continuity without disrupting existing operations.

Education:

• A Bachelor’s degree Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field is preferred — but we also highly value equivalent hands‑on experience.

Experience:

• 4 to 7 years of experience as a Data Engineer.
• We value practical, hands‑on expertise that goes beyond just theoretical knowledge.

• Experience working with cloud-based data platforms and environments
• Strong SQL skills with data modeling experience for data warehouses
• Strong Python skills (especially notebooks) for building and maintaining data workflows
• Experience developing and maintaining ETL/ELT processes
• Experience working with data warehouses used by reporting/business teams
• Experience using Git/Git Hub for version control in collaborative environments
• Understanding of data engineering best practices:
• Pipeline orchestration and dependency management
• Data quality, validation, and monitoring fundamentals

• Hands‑on data migration experience:
• Schema mapping and transformation
• Data reconciliation and validation (must be strong here)
• Data quality checks, integrity validation, and issue resolution
• Backfills and historical data handling
• Cutover planning and execution

• Experience building and maintaining automated data pipelines:
• Scheduling, orchestration, and failure handling
• Workflow reliability, monitoring, and repeatability

• Experience with in Microsoft Fabric or broader Microsoft Azure data ecosystem
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow, Azure Data Factory, or Fabric pipelines
• Experience with data quality and observability practices:
• Validation frameworks, alerting, SLAs, monitoring
• Experience optimizing performance in data environments:
• Query tuning, partitioning, indexing, cost optimization
• Familiarity with modern data formats and large-scale processing:
• Parquet, Delta, incremental processing patterns
• Experience integrating with external systems:
• REST APIs, authentication, retries, error handling
• Exposure to CI/CD practices for data workflows:
• Git-based deployments, PR workflows, environment promotion

• Clear communication: can explain data issues, tradeoffs, and results to both technical and business stakeholders.
• Ownership & accountability: takes end‑to‑end responsibility for pipelines, data quality, and outcomes.
• Problem‑solving mindset: able to debug complex data issues and work through ambiguity independently.
• Collaboration:
  
  works effectively across engineering, analytics, and business teams.
• Adaptability: comfortable operating in evolving environments (migration, changing requirements, new tools).

• Proficiency in SQL, Python, cloud technologies, and data competency.

• Must be available to work Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Eastern Time.
• Must have a stable internet connection and professional remote working setup.
• Resume must be submitted in English to be considered.

Compensation in USD.

Benefits include paid time off (PTO).

Work Environment:

Fully remote work environment.