Senior Data Engineer

At Fitch, we have an open culture where employees are able to exchange ideas and perspectives, throughout the organization, irrespective of their seniority. Your voice will be heard allowing you to have a real impact. We embrace diversity and appreciate authenticity encouraging an environment where employees can be their true selves. Our inclusive and progressive approach helps us to keep a balanced perspective.  Fitch is also committed to supporting its employees by advancing conversations around diversity, equity and inclusion.  Fitch’s Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) have been established by employees who have joined together as a workplace community based on similar backgrounds or life experiences.  Fitch’s ERGs are available to connect employees with others within the organization to offer professional and personal support. 

With our expertise, we are not only creating data and information, but also producing timely insights from every angle to influence decision making in this ever changing and highly competitive market. We have a relentless hunger to innovate and unlock the power of human insights and to drive value for our customers. There has never been a better time to make an impact and we invite you to join us on this journey.

Fitch Ratings is a leading provider of credit ratings, commentary and research. Dedicated to providing value beyond the rating through independent and prospective credit opinions, Fitch Ratings offers global perspectives shaped by strong local market experience and credit market expertise. The additional context, perspective and insights we provide have helped fund a century of growth and enables you to make important credit judgments with confidence.

At Fitch, we have an open culture where employees are able to exchange ideas and perspectives, throughout the organization, irrespective of their seniority. Your voice will be heard allowing you to have a real impact. We embrace diversity and appreciate authenticity, employees work in an environment where they can be their true selves. Our inclusive and progressive approach helps us to keep a balanced perspective.

With our expertise, we are not only creating data and information, but also producing timely insights from every angle to influence decision making in this everchanging and highly competitive market. We have a relentless hunger to innovate and unlock the power of human insights and to drive value for our customers. There has never been a better time to make an impact and we invite you to join us on this journey.

Fitch is seeking a strong Data Engineer to improve critical data systems used widely by internal and external stakeholders. The ideal candidate is someone who:

• Has 5+ years of data engineering experience developing large data pipelines
• Has Strong experience developing in Python.& Java
• Has Strong Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases

Roles & Responsibility

• Build data pipelines and applications to stream and process datasets at low latencies.
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL, NoSQL, Kafka using AWS Big Data technologies.
• Collaborate with Data Product Managers, Data Architects, and other Data Engineers to design, implement, and deliver successful data solutions.
• Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, and other key business performance metrics.
• Track data lineage, ensure data quality and improve discoverability of data.
• Work in Agile Environment (Scrum) and interact with multi-functional teams (Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Developers, Designers, Data Analysts)

Required Skills

• Strong experience developing in Python & Java.
• 5+ years of data engineering experience developing large data pipelines
• Strong SQL and NoSQL skills and ability to create queries to extract data and build performant datasets.
• Hands-on experience with message queuing and stream data processing (Kafka Streams).

Desirable Skills

• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, any RDBMS (Oracle, Postgres) and NoSQL (Cassandra, Mongo, or Redis, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems such as Spark, Hadoop (HDFS, Hive, Presto, PySpark) to query and process data.
• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
• Hands-on experience in using AWS cloud services: EC2, Lambda, S3, Athena, Glue, and EMR
• Redshift/Snowflake
• Experience in the Financial Services industry

Person specification

• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, or another quantitative field.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Highly motivated to deliver results and meet deadlines

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Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries. Wholly owned by the Hearst Corporation, we are comprised of three main businesses: Fitch Ratings | Fitch Solutions | Fitch Learning.

For more information please visit our websites:  www.fitchratings.com | www.fitchsolutions.com | www.fitchlearning.com

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward-looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch’s credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interests or any appearance of a conflict of interest. Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will be asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts prior to commencing employment. If you, or your immediate family, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work.

Fitch is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.