StarCompliance

Senior Data Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in United Kingdom

Remote or Hybrid

Senior level

Fintech • Analytics • Financial Services

The Role

The Senior Data Engineer will enhance the master data platform using SQL, resolve data issues, and engage with stakeholders while participating in Agile practices.

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About Starcompliace

StarCompliance is on a mission to make compliance simple and easy. Trusted globally by enterprise financial institutions, the user-friendly STAR platform empowers organizations to achieve regulatory compliance while safeguarding their integrity and business reputations. Through a customizable, 360-degree view of employee activity, the STAR software enables firms to automate the detection and resolution of potential areas of conflict while streamlining daily workflows and increasing efficiency. 

Role

You will be responsible for enhancing our master data platform (RDM) to provide a consistent, quality internal product for all other product teams to utilise, providing data and search capability to thousands of users across hundreds of clients across the globe.

As the RDM Developer you will be hands-on, continually contributing to the predominantly SQL codebase and investigating/solving data issues. Our platform is SQL Server in Azure with a web-services layer.

We are looking for individuals who will challenge ideas in a respectful manner in the pursuit of a better outcome. It is expected you will be vocal in team meetings especially in refinement sessions and be able to demo work completed in reviews to stakeholders. You should be passionate and take pride in your work with the ability to use initiative to make sure tasks are progressed and workload is prioritised accordingly

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable, efficient, and fault-tolerant data products using predominantly T-SQL on SQL Server in Azure and Azure DevOps.
Work closely with the rest of the members of the Data team to identify, refine and build solutions to enhance the Reference Data Master data platform in being truly enterprise-level
Continually contribute to the codebase and aid other engineers within the team by reviewing and advising/sharing best-practices
Run spikes and POCs for new technical innovation when required and share back to the group
Ensure the platform remains secure, well-monitored and performant
Engage with stakeholders to understand requirements
Play a key role in Agile ceremonies with input into backlog refinement and estimations, as well as ownership of the tech-debt backlog

Mandatory Skills, Knowledge or Experience

At least 3 years of experience in data engineering in a fast-paced, large-scale production environment
Demonstrable expert skills in SQL, including a knowledge of efficient and performant query design
Experience of programming/scripting languages (e.g.T-SQL / C# / PowerShell / Python)
Experience building production systems utilising cloud systems, with particular value in expertise with Microsoft Azure.
Uses coding best practices and understands data architecture patterns
Deep understanding/experience of ETL/ELT processes
Familiar with utilizing CI/CD processes(e.g.Azure DevOps) and Git-based code repositories
Familiar with building and executing automated unit-tests
Work in an Agile development environment
Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills

Desirable skills

Experience of data modelling
Experience defining, implementing or supporting software in financial services industry
Cloud certification in Azure is particularly desirable
Knowledge of data quality, data governance, and data security principles and practices
Experience of Mend/SonarQube

StarCompliance Background Checks

All positions require pre-employment screening due to employees potentially having access to highly sensitive and confidential information involving finance and compliance; candidates must be trustworthy and have a heightened sensitivity to protecting confidential financial, professional information. To be eligible for employment with StarCompliance, candidates must undergo a rigorous background investigation with checks including, but not limited to, criminal record history, consumer credit, employment history, qualifications, and education checks.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, marital/civil union/domestic partnership status, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by country, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organisation, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. StarCompliance makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time. For more information, please request a copy of our Equal Opportunities Policy.

Top Skills

Azure Devops

Git

Azure

Powershell

Python

SQL

T-Sql

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The Company

HQ: Rockville, MD

164 Employees

Year Founded: 1999

What We Do

StarCompliance is the world's leading provider of compliance software to the global financial industry. Our clients include asset managers, broker-dealers, private equity firms, insurance providers, investment banks, and diversified financial institutions. Our scalable, easy-to-use solutions provide a 360-degree view of employee and business activity to help firms monitor and reduce risk, meet regulatory obligations, gain efficiencies, and drive employee adoption.

Our Employee Conflicts of Interest suite provides clients a single place for monitoring and mitigating potential employee conflicts, covering: personal trading activity; insider trading; private investments, gifts and entertainment spending; outside business activities; and political donations. The STAR Mobile app supports personal trading pre-clearance requests and gifts and entertainment spending submissions, and allows compliance officers and employee supervisors to review and approve those requests and submissions on-the-go. Compliance Control Room centralizes all firm deal-related activity—automatically surfacing critical data that might otherwise be missed—and allowing for easier conflict searches, so deals can be cleared faster and with greater confidence.