Lead Data Engineer - Financial Crimes

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This is an in-person position, therefore candidates must be willing to work on-site daily at our Madisonville Office Building in Cincinnati, Ohio.

OVERVIEW:

We are seeking a Lead Data Engineer to join our Financial Crimes team, specifically supporting the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) squad. This role is critical in enhancing our ability to detect and report suspicious activity by expanding and optimizing our data ingestion and transformation capabilities.

The ideal candidate will possess strong data engineering fundamentals, with proficiency in SQL, DBT, and Snowflake. We are looking for a team-player, good problem solver, and a willingness to learn in a highly collaborative environment. Candidates must be attentive to detail, and have the ability to work with stakeholders to understand business requirements and build the pipeline for data to be ingested into a Financial Crimes application.

GENERAL FUNCTION:

The data engineer designs and builds platforms, tools, and solutions that help the bank manage, secure, and generate value from its data. The person in this role creates scalable and reusable solutions for gathering, collecting, storing, processing, and serving data on both small and very large (i.e. Big Data) scales. These solutions can include on-premise and cloud-based data platforms, and solutions in any of the following domains ETL, business intelligence, analytics, persistence (relational, NoSQL, data lakes), search, messaging, data warehousing, stream processing, and machine learning.

Responsible and accountable for risk by openly exchanging ideas and opinions, elevating concerns, and personally following policies and procedures as defined. Accountable for always doing the right thing for customers and colleagues, and ensures that actions and behaviors drive a positive customer experience. While operating within the Bank's risk appetite, achieves results by consistently identifying, assessing, managing, monitoring, and reporting risks of all types.

ESSENTIAL DUTIESAND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for design, development, and support of data solutions, APIs, tools, and processes to enable rapid delivery of business capabilities.
• Work closely with IT application teams, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, information security, and LOB stakeholders to translate business and technical strategies into data-driven solutions for the Bank.
• Act as a technical expert addressing problems related to system and application design, performance, integration, security, etc.
• Conduct research and development based on current trends and technologies related to the banking industry, data engineering and architecture, data security, and related topics.
• Work with developers to build CI/CD pipelines, self-service build tools, and automated deployment processes.
• Evaluate software products and provide documented recommendations as needed.
• Provide support and troubleshooting for data platforms. Must be willing to provide escalated on-call support for complicated and/or critical incidents.
• Participate in the planning process for hardware and software.
• Plan and work on internal projects as needed, including legacy system replacement, monitoring and analytics improvements, tool development, and technical documentation.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring for other team members.
• Manage and prioritize multiple assignments.

MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least 6 years of related experience, including at least 4 years in a hands-on software development role.
• Proficiency in SQL for data analysis, transformation, and performance optimization.
• Hands-on experience with DBT for building and maintaining data models in a modern data stack.
• Significant experience with at least one major RDBMS product.
• Must be able to communicate ideas both verbally and in writing to management, business and IT sponsors, and technical resources in language that is appropriate for each group.
• Experience working with and supporting Unix/Linux and Windows systems.
• Proficient in relational database modeling concepts and techniques.
• Solid conceptual understanding of distributed computing principles.
• Working knowledge of application and data security concepts, best practices, and common vulnerabilities.
• Experience in one or more of the following disciplines preferred: big data technologies and distributions, metadata management products, commercial ETL tools, Bi and reporting tools, messaging systems, data warehousing, Java (language and run time environment), major version control systems, continuous integration/delivery tools, infrastructure automation and virtualization tools, major cloud, or rest API design and development.
• Previous experience working with offshore teams desired.
• Financial industry experience is a plus.

Position not available for immigration sponsorship.

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At Fifth Third, we understand the importance of recognizing our employees for the role they play in improving the lives of our customers, communities and each other. Our Total Rewards include comprehensive benefits and differentiated compensation offerings to give each employee the opportunity to be their best every day.

The base salary for this position is reflective of the range of salary levels for all roles within this pay grade across the U.S. Individual salaries within this range will vary based on factors such as role, relevant skillset, relevant experience, education and geographic location. In addition to the base salary, this role is eligible to participate in an incentive compensation plan, with any such payment based upon company, line of business and/or individual performance.

Our extensive benefits programs are designed to support the individual needs of our employees and their families, encompassing physical, financial, emotional and social well-being.You can learn more about those programs on our 53.com Careers page at: https://www.53.com/content/fifth-third/en/careers/benefits.html or by consulting with your talent acquisition partner.

Fifth Third Bank, National Association is proud to have an engaged and inclusive culture and to promote and ensure equal employment opportunity in all employment decisions regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, veteran status or any other legally protected status.