Principal Data Engineer, Dir

Job Description

Purpose:

Acts as a technical lead of data and digital solutions engineering team including custom applications, vendor applications, software-as-a-service, and other services related to data management. As the primary overseeing data management, collaborate with technology and business to deliver solutions and provide expertise for data models, data integration, and data access. Deliver "hands-on" development to maintain and support applications and databases. Engage in strategic initiatives as required to meet the Bank's business and technology objectives.

Engineer Responsibilities:
Contribute ideas to the maintenance of the Core Bank Data Model. Based upon the Data Management Roadmap, provide technical direction and lead in the implementation of solutions. Analyze project requirements and decide on technical and functional direction, design and implement data management solutions when required. Lead data management practices including the design of standards, frameworks, and reusable components. Understand and follow agile project processes as prescribed.

Follow and recommend improvements to existing engineering processes including source code management, secure coding standards and code review, and change management. Maintain awareness of the data management tool market and recommend efforts to evaluate new products and product improvements. Review and decide upon improvements to existing data management designs. Deliver solutions to improve data management. Respond to customer queries and concerns in a timely fashion.

Determine new designs to eliminate future issues. Lead technical support of data management solutions. Perform system failure analysis and drive corrective actions. Lead root cause analysis and determine long term solutions.

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience required.

Experience:

Minimum of five years of experience in data management in a large, regulated financial services (preferably banking) environment is required. Skills & Knowledge:
Experience with hands-on requirements gathering and analysis, data modeling, development and implementation of data architectures including RDBMS and Data Lake House is required. Experience with data integration involving databases and SaaS products utilizing APIs, file transfer, including ETL and ELT methods is required. Amazon Web Services experience, including RDS, Glue Databrew, S3, and Lake Formation Scaled Agile / SAFe practices;
Scrum master experience is a plus. Understanding operating systems, application security configurations, and best practices in Windows and UNIX environment is required. Ability to take the initiative to pursue assignments, responsibilities, and support requests to a logical and final solution and to employ System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) standards is required. Experience integrating with CI systems such as Bamboo, Chef and Jenkins Relational Database Management Systems, such as Oracle, including PL/SQL and expert SQL Experience with Application Lifecycle Management tools Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts and proficiency in at least one programming language.

Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Google and Azure is highly desirable. Ability to mentor and collaborate with teams to achieve results. Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to work effectively under pressure either independently or as a member of a team.

Salary Range: $205k-$235k

The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco is committed to the principles of equal opportunity in employment (e.g., employees, applicants) and in contracting (e.g., suppliers, vendors) regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a parent, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to cultivating a workplace free of unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, and are dedicated to fostering vibrant communities by serving as a reliable source of liquidity and resources for affordable housing and economic development.

Salary ranges reflect the base salary that the Bank reasonably expects to pay for a given role and is not inclusive of annual incentive award opportunities, retirement benefits or the value of other health and welfare or other ancillary benefits. We consider many factors when determining base salaries such as individual background and experience, the competitive environment, education, particular skill set(s), and industry and institutional knowledge.

The Bank is committed to offering all team members challenging and engaging work with market competitive pay, retirement, and benefit offerings. In support of this commitment, the Bank…