Senior Data Engineer

About the Opportunity

First Help Financial, recently voted as a "Great Place to Work" for the fifth year in a row, is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our highly skilled and innovative team. First Help Financial is embarking on a new growth phase involving multiple game-changing projects.

What you will do

• Lead data engineering delivery to build reliable, scalable pipeline leveraging Snowflake, Sigma and other applications to support complex data analytics and self-service reporting.
• Drive integration with popular tools and services in the broader data warehousing ecosystem.
• Optimize architectural performance across the Data stack by refining execution parameters and enforcing best practice strategies to maximize resource efficiency and throughput.
• Establish and evolve a data governance operating model across data quality, lineage, metadata management, stewardship, cataloging, and lifecycle management.
• Perform advanced code-level analysis and resource profiling to identify and mitigate systemic root causes, ensuring the stability and reliability of high-scale production workloads.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure effective communication, issue resolution, and on-time delivery of projects.
• Participate in weekend and weekday on call rotation.

What you bring

• 8+ years of experience in designing, building, testing, and maintaining data pipelines and data platforms. 5 years of hands-on experience as a technical lead on a Data Engineering team, serving as the go-to person to resolve critical issues.
• Expertise in SQL databases or data warehouses (such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres and AWS RDS) and ETL technologies (such as Rivery, Informatica, DataStage, Talend, Fivetran).
• Strong knowledge of data architecture, distributed processing, data modeling, and platform reliability engineering.
• Hands-on experience with modern data warehouse and cloud data platform architectures including AWS and Snowflake.
• Experience establishing and operating enterprise data governance capabilities, including data quality, lineage, metadata, and stewardship practices.
• Demonstrable mastery of AI tools to enhance productivity and efficiency in daily tasks is a plus.
• Working experience in financial services, especially auto finance and lending is preferred.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functionally, such as with internal stakeholders or engineering teams.
• Expert level knowledge in python is desired.
• Self-motivated and proactive, with a strong ability to identify issues and challenge the status quo.
• Degree in Computer Science or related field/experience.

FHF Benefits

• Great Perks – We offer generous salaries, social activities, monthly lunches, and a robust employee recognition and talent development program to enhance your career with us.
• Culture - We are believers in maintaining a healthy work-life balance. While we work hard and care deeply about our customers and partners, we want you to have room for your family, friends, and yourself.
• Growth - Company growth provides unprecedented opportunities for professional development.