Senior Data Engineer

What you do at Avant:

• Develop, maintain, test, and document data transformation pipelines that power essential day-to-day business operations

• Review code and provide feedback to fellow data engineers

• Act as a liaison between the Data organization and stakeholders of our data pipelines

• Be a part of a strong culture of ownership, pragmatism, and testing

• Contribute to tooling as well as our technology architecture and direction

• Act as a technical expert to the engineering team

What you might own at Avant:

• Data pipelines that drive a variety of campaign-driven decision-making at Avant

• A software framework that enables the team to manage and execute on data pipelines at scale 

• Software and infrastructure that sends data to Avant’s production systems

• Interfaces between the Campaign Execution systems and our data warehouses

Why you are a fit for Avant:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, or other quantitative field

• Experience working in cloud technologies - preferably AWS

• Programming experience in Python 

• Experience working on PySpark

• Knowledge in SQL and ETL/ELT processing 

• Experience developing and performance tuning Spark data pipelines

• Experience working in various interfaces like pub/sub, API's and ODBC/JDBC

• Experience working with code promotion using Github, Jira and Jenkins

• Data modeling and schema design

• Experience maintaining technical documentation

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We believe that a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences helps us create the most innovative solutions for our customers. We invite you to apply to our positions even if you do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed in the description. If you’re passionate about our mission and aligned to our values, we hope you’ll come contribute to our awesome culture.

Why Avant is the place for you:

At Avant, we believe our values make a difference:

Authenticity. We show up to work as our whole selves and make sure others can too.

Collaboration. We can only succeed when we do so as a team.

Problem-Solving. The harder the problem, the more satisfying the solution.

Customer. We are all owners of the customer experience.

Initiative. Plan. Adapt. Get Sh!t Done.

We believe that great ideas come from anyone and anywhere, that everyone is an owner who drives change, and that we have more fun when we work together. We're problem solvers who love collaborating with intelligent and highly-motivated people to reshape the face of digital banking. Avant offers terrific perks and benefits, fun social events with employees who actually like hanging out together, and a flexible growth environment where trying your hand at new projects and being the active owner of your career path is encouraged and supported.

Some of our benefits include:

• Choice of great Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Plan options

• 401(k) Match

• Unlimited Paid Time Off

• Flexible Work Environment

• Generous Paid Parental Leave

• Lunch Allowance (Fooda) and In-office Snacks

• WFH Stipends for our Remote Employees

• Access to LinkedIn Learning for Professional Development

• No Meeting Wednesdays - (a.k.a. planned time to Get Sh!t Done)

• Summer Fridays

• Fun In-Office and Virtual Social Events

• And who doesn’t love the swag

This position may require you to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. If required, you'll be asked to provide proof that you’re fully vaccinated upon your start date or before working in or visiting our Chicago office. You’re considered fully vaccinated two weeks after you receive the second dose of a two-dose vaccine series (e.g., Pfizer or Moderna) or two weeks after a single-dose vaccine (e.g., Johnson & Johnson/Janssen). Failure to provide proof of vaccination may result in termination. Subject to applicable law and requests for accommodation.