Senior Data Engineer

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What We'll Bring:
At TransUnion, we strive to build an environment where our associates are in the driver's seat of their professional development, while having access to help along the way. We encourage everyone to pursue passions and take ownership of their careers. With the support of colleagues and mentors, our associates are given the tools needed to get where they want to go. Regardless of job titles, our associates have the opportunity to learn new things and be a leader every day.
Come be a part of our team - you'll work with great people, pioneering products and cutting-edge technology.
We are looking for a Data Engineer experienced in both operational and development work in a SQL-intense environment. You will be working with large data sets in load, link, manage, and extract information to support live client applications as well as the development of new data assets.
What You'll Bring:

• Minimum of 3+ years related experience in data engineering
• 3+ years of relational databases & SQL
• 1-3 years of experience in a general-purpose programming language (Python preferred)
• 1-3 years of experience in AWS - S3, Redshift, Postgre SQL, Dynamo DB, EC2, Data Lake formation, AWS Glue, Step Functions, ECS, ECR, Lambda, Fargate, EMR, Cloud formation
• Strong data management, analytical, communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated ability to work creatively and analytically
• Ability to effectively communicate at different levels in and across the organization and to articulate to non-technical and technical audiences
• Bachelor's in engineering or a degree in Computer Science or equivalent

We're also looking for the preferred skills below. Whether you are proficient or could use some brushing up, we're happy to support your development in:

• Experience with Hadoop technology is a nice to have (ex: Spark and Hive)
• Experience with BI/visualization tools (ex: Tableau, Spotfire, Qlikview) is a plus

Impact You'll Make:

• Supporting live, production operational processes that produce reports and analytics for our clients
• Manage and operate production environment, taking responsibility for specialized operations while helping transition tasks that fit standard operating procedures to a centralized operations team
• Obtain guidance from cloud migration team and develop process to migrate the SQL batch processing to AWS and prod implementation and maintenance
• Build new products/processes on the AWS cloud infrastructure utilizing the AWS services for migration, better performance and low-cost operations
• Develop processes for linking data assets within our organization to better enhance the information that can be provided to our clients
• Linking internal data assets to external data assets, to further inform our clients in their analytics and modeling work
• Perform data validation and data quality checks to enforce high data quality for operational tasks
• Collaborate with data architects, modelers and IT team members on project goals and requirements from internal clients
• Develop applications to interface with SQL databases, consists of designing tables, store procedures, views and functions
• Work with partnership and development teams to identify potential new data sources and linkages
• Develop proof-of-concept processes for solving and operationalization linkages between diverse data sets.
• Integrate new data management technologies and software engineering tools into existing structures
• Employ a variety of reporting and visualization tools to understand data
• Recommend ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality
• Work closely with onshore team to support the production processes

TransUnion provides flexible benefits including flexible time off for exempt associates, paid time off for non-exempt associates, tuition reimbursement, primary parental leave of at least 16 weeks, secondary parental leave of 4 weeks, adoption assistance, fertility planning coverage, spousal and domestic partner benefits, bonus incentives, charity gift matching, employee stock purchase plan, retirement contributions with employer match, organizational growth potential through our online learning platform with guided career tracks, and access to TransUnion's Employee Resource Groups.
The salary range for this position is $78,430 - $128,700.00. *The salary range for this position reflects the general range of compensation for this job. At TransUnion, actual compensation is based on careful consideration of additional factors such as (but not limited to) an individual's education, training, work experience, job-related skill set, industry knowledge, as well as the scope and responsibilities of the position, and market considerations.
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TransUnion's Internal Job Title:
Sr Engineer, Software Development