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Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.
What You'll Be DoingThe Data Engineer III is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining data pipelines and infrastructure on the AWS platform. The Data Engineer III works with large volumes of data, ensuring its quality, reliability, and accessibility. Tasks may include data ingestion, transformation, storage, data sharing and consumption, and implementing data security and privacy measures. This role is crucial in enabling efficient and effective data-driven decision-making.
What We're Looking For- Build and maintain scalable and reliable data pipelines, ensuring the smooth flow of data from various sources to the desired destinations in the AWS cloud environment.
- Work closely with stakeholders to understand their data requirements and design data solutions that meet their needs.
- Understand data models/schemas and implement ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) processes to transform raw data into a usable format in the destination.
- Responsible for monitoring and optimizing the performance of data pipelines, troubleshooting any issues that arise, and ensuring data quality and integrity.
- Proficient in programming languages such as Python and SQL for database querying and manipulation.
- Strong understanding of AWS services related to data engineering, such as Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Aurora Postgres, AWS Glue, AWS Lambda, AWS Step Function, AWS Lake Formation, Amazon Data Zone, Amazon Kinesis, MSK, and Amazon EMR.
- Knowledge of database design principles and experience with database management systems.
- Experience with data storage technologies, such as relational databases (e.g., SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and distributed storage systems (e.g., PySpark).
- Understanding of Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes and experience with ETL tools like AWS Glue and SQL Server Integration Services is essential.
- Skilled at integrating disparate data sources and ensuring data quality and consistency.
- Understanding and experience with orchestration tools like Apache Airflow, AWS Glue Workflows, AWS Step Functions, and notification services.
- Familiarity with IAC, such as Terraform, git, and DevOps pipelines.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities are essential to effectively identify and resolve data-related issues.
- Ability to analyze complex data sets, identify patterns, and derive actionable insights.
- Awareness of data governance practices, data privacy regulations, and security protocols is crucial.
- Experience implementing data security measures and ensuring compliance with relevant standards is desirable.
- Minimum Required: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum Required: 7+ years of post-bachelor progressive experience in data engineering.
- Minimum Required: None.
- Proficient in the following computer languages:
- Python
- SQL
- AWS technologies to include:
- Glue
- S3
- Redshift
- Lambda
- Lake Formation
- DataZone
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About StifelStifel is more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.
While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.
At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.
Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of progressive post-bachelor experience in data engineering
- Proficiency in Python and SQL
- Strong understanding of AWS data engineering services, including S3, Redshift, Aurora PostgreSQL, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, Lake Formation, DataZone, Kinesis, MSK, and EMR
- Knowledge of database design principles and database management systems
- Experience with relational databases such as SQL Server and PostgreSQL
- Experience with distributed storage technologies such as PySpark
- Understanding of ETL processes and experience with AWS Glue or SQL Server Integration Services
- Experience integrating disparate data sources and ensuring data quality and consistency
- Experience with orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow, AWS Glue Workflows, or AWS Step Functions
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code, Terraform, Git, and DevOps pipelines
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to analyze complex data sets, identify patterns, and derive actionable insights
- Awareness of data governance practices, data privacy regulations, and security protocols
- Experience implementing data security measures and ensuring compliance with relevant standards
- No license or credential required
Stifel Financial Corp. Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Stifel Financial Corp. and has not been reviewed or approved by Stifel Financial Corp..
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Compensation is positioned as highly attractive for financial advisors, with emphasis on meaningful earning upside tied to production. Recognition for advisor satisfaction indicates that incentive mechanics can be a differentiator in producer roles.
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Flexible Benefits — The benefits program is broad and multi-option, spanning multiple health plan choices, FSAs/HSAs, and a wide set of voluntary insurance add-ons. This menu-style design supports tailoring coverage to different life stages and needs.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented benefits are extensive, including parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility and family-building support, and back-up childcare and elder care. These offerings signal a comparatively strong support system for caregiving and family planning.
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What We Do
Established in 1890, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated is one of the nation’s premier full-service financial services firms, providing brokerage, trading, investment banking, investment advisory, and related services to individual investors, professional money managers, businesses, and municipalities through more than 400 locations across the U.S. Stifel ranks as the 7th largest brokerage firm in the country as measured by number of financial advisors, with approximately 2,300, and features a highly regarded equity research department that has earned numerous accolades from such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and the Financial Times. In 2023 and 2024, Stifel was recognized as the No. 1 wealth management firm for employee advisor satisfaction, based on the J.D. Power U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study*. Stifel is the principal subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), a financial services holding company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Stifel Financial Corp.'s other subsidiaries include Stifel Independent Advisors, LLC, an independent contractor broker-dealer firm; Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited, the Company’s European subsidiary; Stifel Nicolaus Canada, Inc., our Canadian subsidiary; Stifel Bank and Trust and Stifel Bank, retail and commercial banks; and Stifel Trust Company, N.A. and Stifel Trust Company Delaware, N.A, our trust companies. *Stifel received the highest score among employee advisors in the J.D. Power 2023-2024 U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Studies, which measures employee advisors’ satisfaction among those who are employed by an investment services firm. Visit jdpower.com/awards for more details.
