Location San Antonio, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona; Plano, Texas Job ID R0063294 Date posted 04/08/2022

Purpose of Job

We are seeking a talented Data Engineer Senior for our San Antonio, TX, Plano, TX or Phoenix, AZ facility. This person may also work remotely in a 100% Remote Work Environment.

USAA values a culture that is highly collaborative, and we have found that a hybrid work type helps employees gain the best of both worlds – collaborating in-person in the office and working from home when needed to achieve focused results. The actual days' onsite are resolved between each employee and the employee’s manager.

The candidate selected for this position will be responsible for developing and maintaining data processing pipelines and work with multi technology tools. This individual will work closely with USAA P&C Products, several application development, testing and info governance teams. The candidate should be willing to learn new technologies and upskill as required. He/she will be primarily responsible for analyzing different data streams, engineer data exports and imports, build ETL ELT streams, support various data modernization needs including end to end support for all data migrations and enhancements.

Data Engineers (DEs) are engaged in all phases of the data management lifecycle. This includes gathering and analyzing requirements, collecting, processing, storing, securing, and archiving data. Develop and maintain technical systems for data reporting and technical solutions utilizing emerging technologies. Partner with the business to ensure data management solutions aligned to business objectives

Job Requirements

About USAA

USAA knows what it means to serve. We facilitate the financial security of millions of U.S. military members and their families. This singular mission requires a dedication to innovative thinking at every level.

About USAA IT

Our most meaningful qualification isn't technical, it's human. Here, we don't just sit in front of a screen. We stand behind our 13 million members who rely on us every day.

We're proud of USAA's strong history -- and we're even more passionate about our future. That's why we have a team of supportive and collaborative hardworking technology professionals focused on doing more for our members. And why we're continuing to add innovative problem solvers to our team. With us, you'll find exciting challenges that inspire you to continue learning and growing.

Tasks:

• Identifies and manages existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and the job role.
• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled.
• Follows written risk and compliance policies, standards, and procedures for business activities.
• Leads and/or engineers the full cycle of data solutions from analysis, solution design, data pipeline engineering, testing, deployment, scheduling, and production support.
• Designs and implements highly-complex technical solutions for data engineering and analytic systems using new methodologies and emerging technologies.
• Designs, builds, manages and optimizes data pipelines for data structures encompassing data transformation, data models, schemas, metadata, data quality, and workload management.
• Leads design reviews for the team and provides recommendations using innovative architectural concepts and principals.
• Breakdowns business features into technical stories and approaches.  Presents to leadership and influences on technical solutions.
• Creates proof of concepts and prototypes on highly complex solutions and presents to leadership to deliver on vision for solution. 
• Collaborates with cross-functional partners and stakeholders to lead technical solutions. 
• Implements efficient defect management, root cause analysis, and resolution processes.
• Helps develop, maintain, and enforce the company’s data development tools and standards. Conduct code reviews on a regular basis to improve quality and ensure compliance
• Creates the development of data pipelines, extracting data from our various applications (internal & external sources) into the Data Platform.
• Assists in setting technical direction for the team and serves a mentor to team members.

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree; OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.

• 6 years of data engineering, data analysis or software development experience implementing data solutions with at least 2 years of data engineering or data management experience.
• Proven experience with end to end delivering of data solutions that includes building, managing, and optimizing data pipelines across cloud environments; curating and modeling the data for various types of consumers/products and their pattern of usage to include data marts, data lake, and operational analytic applications.
• Experience completing multiple projects leveraging the agile methodology in delivering data.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in SQL and Relational Databases.

When you apply for this position, you will be required to answer some initial questions. This will take approximately 5 minutes. Once you begin the questions you will not be able to finish them at a later time and you will not be able to change your responses.

Preferred experience:

• 6+ years’ experience developing, deploying, and supporting high-quality, fault-tolerant data pipelines (leveraging distributed, data movement technologies and approaches, including but not limited to ETL and streaming ingestion and processing) for building modern data warehouses.
  • 3 or more years’ experience utilizing Linux scripting (Python, Shell, etc.)
  • 5 or more years’ experience in SQL development and/or NoSQL databases
  • 2 or more years’ experience with cloud-based data offerings (Amazon AWS, Redshift, Snowflake, Google GCP, Microsoft Azure)
• Experience with ETL Tools (Informatica, DataStage, Data Build Tool, etc.)
• Design, build, and deploy new data pipelines within Informatica, DBT, Snowflake, Guidewire environments.
• 3 or more years of experience working with Agile Development Methodologies

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

Compensation:

USAA has an effective method for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market position. The salary range for this skill is: $106,800 - $192,300*

Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance or at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

Geographical Differential: Geographic pay differential is additional pay provided to eligible employees working in locations where market pay levels are above the national average.

Shift premium: will be addressed on an individual-basis for applicable roles that are consistently scheduled for non-core hours.

Benefits:

At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, parental benefits, adoption assistance, paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours, and various wellness programs. Additionally, our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.

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Relocation assistance is Not Available for this position.

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