Cloud Data Engineer at Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) in Richmond, Virginia

Job Description:

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.

About the Opportunity

The Enterprise Data Services team has an immediate opening for a Cloud Data Engineer. Our team delivers a centralized data and analytics platform that provides advanced data migration and analytics solutions for our bank district customers. We work with state-of-the-art technologies that are part of the next generation data ecosystem, which includes tools used for data storage, data processing, data integration, data lakes, data warehousing, and data analytics.

You will work cross-functionally with Data Architects, Product Owners, Design Engineers, Developers and Business Analysts in a rapidly evolving environment, identifying solutions, building, and implementing Infrastructure as Code using our CI/CD pipeline.

As part of the National IT team, our Enterprise Data Services team is partnered with multiple business lines, our Board of Governors and other IT groups within the Federal Reserve System. You will have an opportunity to showcase your critical thinking and technical skills across many disciplines. This role will be instrumental in shaping the development and support of our product roadmaps and will advance our cloud data analytics platforms.

What You Will Do:

• Understand technology vision and strategic direction of business needs


• Develop product roadmaps in alignment with other data products and business roadmaps


• Design integrated solution in alignment with design patterns, blueprints, guidelines, and standard methodologies for products


• Participate in defining technical requirements that outlines solution for enabling data analytics within an AWS cloud environment.


• Participate in developing architecture and design conceptual solutions by incorporating cloud native and 3rd party vendor products


• Provide analysis of current state, future state, and define key outcomes for an IT data platform strategy.


• Participate in research and perform POCs (proofs of concept) with emerging technologies and adopt industry best practices in the data space for advancing the cloud data platform


• Demonstrate automation through Infrastructure as a code to increase build efficiency in the cloud


• Develop scripting to integrate multiple data sources to data and analytics platform


• Build platform supporting rehydration and HA


• Build end to end automation to support and maintain software currency


• Create automation services for builds using Terraform, Python, and OS shell scripts.


• Develop validation and certification process through automation tools


• Develop multi-layered build, installation, configuration, patching, regression testing, and rollback scripts in each environment.


• Integrate platforms to form a cohesive data mesh and help democratize data


• Create patching process to compare different versions of the configuration settings.


• Provide consulting and guidance on business solution development in the data and analytics space and cloud technologies


• Demonstrate leadership, collaboration, exceptional communication, negotiation, strategic and influencing skills to gain consensus and produce the best solutions.


• Engage with Senior leadership, business leaders at the Federal Reserve and the Board to share the business value.


• Promote collaboration across business and IT organizations

Qualifications:

• Must have Business Acumen skills to understand and anticipate business priorities


• Demonstrates mutual respect, embraces diversity, and acts with authenticity


• Demonstrates analytical and problem-solving skills


• Subject matter expertise in transforming data platform and analytics space.


• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience; advance degree preferred


• Experience in designing and building large-scale solutions in an enterprise setting in both On-Prem/AWS


• 5+ years in designing and building data services with all aspects of cloud design, development, and implementation


• 3+ years of experience with full stack development, including application, API, testing, and automation experience using at least one of the following languages (Terraform, JSON, Python)


• 3+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting solutions hosted either on-prem or in the cloud, and experience with migrating data to the cloud


• Advanced proficiency in cloud specific solutions related to gateways, streaming services, or file and database migration services 


• Experience in developing product roadmap in alignment with other data products and business roadmaps


• Experience with leveraging CI/CD pipelines and GitLab is a must


• Hands on experience in Terraform, Python, and OS shell scripts including automation tools


• Hands on experience in one or more languages such as Java, JavaScript


• Experience with other AWS data related services including various compute and storage offerings


• Experience with RDS, NOSQL Databases, RDBMS and in-memory databases.


• Experience with distributed SQL query engine such as Trino, and data mesh is strongly preferred.


• Strong background in data structures, networking, performance, and scalability.


• Microservices experience is strongly preferred


• Must be familiar with Agile methodologies and able to work in an Agile manner


• Must have a very strong application development background


• Must be available for at least 6 hours during 8am-6pm EST

Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here!

When you join the Richmond Fed, not only will you find a challenging and purposeful career, you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth, including:

• Great medical benefits


• Pension and 401(k) with employer match


• Paid time off


• Tuition reimbursement


• Employee resource networks


• Paid volunteer leave


• Flexible work options


• Onsite amenities that make working here fun!

Other Requirements and Considerations:

• Candidates should review the Bank’s Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions.


• If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please notify rich.recruit@rich.frb.org.


• Employees who work at and/or visit another Federal Reserve entity or outside business as part of their job duties are required to comply with any onsite safety and health protocols of those organizations (including, but not limited to, requirements to vaccinate or test, mask, social distance, etc.).


• Sponsorship is not available for this role. The selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility for this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship or three or more years of Permanent Resident (Green Card) status.


• The hiring range is $90,200 - $123,970 annually.


• For candidates outside Richmond, VA, listed hiring and salary ranges may be adjusted based on your geographic location.


• Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications.


• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply by November 5, 2024. Always verify and apply to jobs on Federal Reserve System Careers or through verified Federal Reserve Bank social media channels.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Information Technology

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

Always verify and apply to jobs on Federal Reserve System Careers (https://rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/FRS) or through verified Federal Reserve Bank social media channels.

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