Principal Data Engineer, MeridianLink
$152.2-200k
+ Stock options or other equity-based awards
Lending software provider
Open for applications
Lending software provider
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$152.2-200k
+ Stock options or other equity-based awards
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the most trusted financial services technology platform.
Role
Who you are
- Ability to assess unusual circumstances and uses sophisticated analytical and problem-solving techniques to identify the cause
- Ability to enhance relationships and networks with senior internal/external partners who are not familiar with the subject matter 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
- The Data Engineering subfamily is responsible for the design, build, implementation, and maintenance of data processes throughout the organization
- The Principal Data Engineer will design, build, implement, and maintain data processing pipelines for the extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of data from a variety of data sources
- The role will develop robust and scalable solutions that transform data into a useful format for analysis, enhance data flow, and enable end-users to consume and analyze data faster and easier
- Principal 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
- Principal 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
- The role will include work on problems of diverse scope where analysis of information requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Work is expected to be done independently through independent judgment
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.
MeridianLink has proven hungry in recent years for acquisitions, having acquired StreetShares, TazWorks and Saylent within one year, and off the back of its 2021 IPO. Its efforts to expand its product offerings and customer base are a testament to its adaptable nature that has engendered a long-standing strong market position.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Potential For Equity-Based Awards
- Insurance coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability)
- Flexible paid time off
- Paid holidays
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Remote work
- All compensation and benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of the underlying plans or programs, as applicable and as may be amended, terminated, or superseded from time to time
Company HQ
Costa Mesa, CA
Leadership
Nicolaas Vlok
(CEO, not founder)Previously co-founded ad served as CEO for both TST and Idion Technology Holdings. Acted as President and CEO for Vision Solutions.
Share this job
View 21 more jobs at MeridianLink