Senior Data Engineer, MeridianLink
$95-135k
Digital lending platform for every financial institution
Posted today
Digital lending platform for every financial institution
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$95-135k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate and simplify workflows while helping community financial institutions grow, scale and serve their consumers and communities.
Role
Who you are
- The role will include work on problems of diverse scopes where analysis of information requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Work is expected to be done independently through independent judgment
- Ability to assess unusual circumstances and use sophisticated analytical and problem-solving techniques to identify the cause
- Working with people, processes facing Enterprise a plus, improvement of processes/reduction of costs in the enterprise processes leveraging data is preferable
- Ability to enhance relationships and networks with senior internal partners who are not familiar with the subject often requires persuasion
- Architect and scale our modern data platform to support real-time and batch processing for financial forecasting, risk analytics, and customer insights
- Enforce high standards for data governance, quality, lineage, and compliance
- Partner with stakeholders across engineering, finance, sales, and compliance to translate business requirements into reliable data models and workflows
- Evaluate emerging technologies and lead POCs that shape the future of our data stack
- Champion a culture of security, automation, and continuous delivery in all data workflows
- Deep expertise in Python, SQL, and distributed processing frameworks like Apache Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery
- Proven experience with cloud-based data platforms (preferably AWS or Azure)
- Hands-on experience with data orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt) and data warehouses (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery)
- Strong understanding of data security, privacy, and compliance within a financial services context
- Experience working with structured and semi-structured data (e.g., Delta, JSON, Parquet, Avro) at scale
- Familiarity with modelling datasets in Salesforce, Netsuite and Anaplan to solve business use cases required
- Previous experience Democratizing data at scale for the enterprise a huge plus
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
- 6-8 years of experience in data engineering, with a strong focus on financial systems on SaaS platforms
What the job involves
- Senior Data Engineers will design, build, implement, and maintain data processing pipelines for the extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of data from a variety of data sources
- Expected to lead the writing of complex SQL queries to support analytics needs
- Responsible for developing technical tools and programming that leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big-data techniques to cleanse, organize and transform data and to maintain, defend and update data structures and integrity on an automated basis
- Senior Data Engineers will evaluate and recommend tools and technologies for data infrastructure and processing. Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, data analysts, product teams, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements to technical specifications and coded data pipelines
- The role will work with tools, languages, data processing frameworks, and databases such as R, Python, SQL, Databricks, Spark, Delta, APIs. Work with structured and unstructured data from a variety of data stores, such as data lakes, relational database management systems, and/or data warehouses
Application process
- MeridianLink runs a comprehensive background check, credit check, and drug test as part of our offer process
Our take
MeridianLink provides modern software platforms for financial institutions and consumer reporting agencies. Specifically, it powers digital lending and account opening for the former and data verifications for the latter.
The company has been trusted for over 20 years and has remained adaptable and open to change with the industry, such as its recent addition of engagement features that offer new ways to help financial services drive growth, reach target audiences and adjust campaigns to meet business and customer needs. It has therefore maintained a number of impressive customers, from BankPlus and American United to FirstBank and TwinStar.
Building on this track record, MeridianLink was recently acquired by Centerbridge Partners, marking an important step forward. Going private in this $2B deal gives the company flexibility to accelerate innovation, expand its platform, and leverage AI and data more effectively. With Centerbridge's support, MeridianLink is in a good position to strengthen its competitive edge and continue helping financial institutions grow in a rapidly evolving market.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Ongoing development: Continuous learning is essential to growth, and we’re committed to helping our employees thrive. You’ll have the opportunity to take part in job-specific training, monthly soft-skill sessions, and leadership classes designed to support your development at every stage.
- Access to executives: Have a good idea? Share it with peers, managers, or executives. Our leadership is approachable and actively involved in supporting your work.
- Health lifestyle: Healthy staff makes us happy. We support our team members with resources and programs that promote financial, physical, and mental health—encouraging balance, self-care, and a lifestyle that helps you feel your best every day.
- Celebrations: All work and no play makes for a dull day. We celebrate holidays, birthdays, work anniversaries, and other milestones with fun activities that bring us together. We also provide channels for employees to recognize and celebrate each other’s achievements, making appreciation a regular part of our culture.
- Community partnering: Take a day off with pay to volunteer where it matters most to you or join the company in various community service projects throughout the year.
Company HQ
Irvine Technology Center, Irvine, CA
Leadership
Larry Katz
(CEO)Larry joined MeridianLink in 2023 as CFO and became CEO in 2025. Prior to this, they were the CFO at StubHub and Genesys as well as a Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co. for 15 years.
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