Grow your career with a growing organization
Whether they’re helping people reach their long-term financial goals or providing personal wealth management strategies, every associate contributes to changing the lives of those we serve for the better. When it comes to job satisfaction, that’s hard to beat. And from a personal satisfaction perspective, you’ll enjoy the freedom to support causes that matter to you and experience a truly inclusive work environment. Your future starts now.
The Company:
Personal Capital, an Empower Company, is a remote-delivery, industry-leading digital wealth management company that helps people transform their financial lives through technology and advisory services. In 2020, Personal Capital joined Empower, the nation’s second-largest retirement services provider, to continue the mission to disrupt the traditional $30 trillion U.S. wealth management market. Our state-of-the-art tools and technology provide investors with a complete financial picture, utilized by over 3 million customers. Our registered investment advisors offer expert guidance and customized strategies based on a personal understanding of an investor’s financial picture and goals. Personal Capital currently manages over $20 billion in assets, virtually delivered from across the U.S. Personal Capital is a fully remote company.
The Opportunity
You will play a leading role on the Data and Analytics team, responsible for transforming data from disparate systems to provide insights and analytics for business stakeholders. You’ll leverage cloud-based infrastructure to implement technology solutions that are scalable, resilient, and efficient. You will collaborate with Data Engineers, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, DBAs, cross-functional teams, and business leaders. You will architect, design, implement and operate data engineering solutions, using Agile methodology, that empower users to make informed business decisions.
The Candidate
You are self-motivated, work independently, and have direct experience with all aspects of the software development lifecycle, from design to deployment. You have a deep understanding of the full life data lifecycle and the role that high-quality data plays across applications, machine learning, business analytics, and reporting.
Strong candidates will exhibit solid critical thinking skills, the ability to synthesize complex problems, and a talent for transforming data to create solutions that add value to a myriad of business requirements. You have the demonstrated ability to lead and take ownership of proactively identifying gaps and proposing technical solutions. Excellent written and speaking communication skills are required as we work in a collaborative cross-functional environment and interact with the full spectrum of business divisions.
Qualifications:
Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
At least 10 years of professional experience, with a minimum of 3 years of Data Architecture experience.
Experience with owning and implementing all facets of Data pipeline & Architecture bridging the needs of Analytics with Engineering solutions.
Experience with Cloud Technologies (e.g., AWS, PCF, GCP, etc.) including a track record of learning new technologies and architecting them to solve business problems
Experience building and scaling data products and machine learning models
Experience building and scaling BI tools and associated workloads to produce reports to meet data analysts and business expectations on timing & quality
Experience in mentoring junior team members through code reviews and recommend adherence to best practices.
Deep understanding of writing and automating test cases to ensure data quality, reliability (including monitoring & alerting) and high level of confidence.
Passionate about improving quality, efficiency, reliability and scalability of data systems.
What Will Set You Apart
Experience with distributed computing technologies, such as Spark, Hadoop, Kafka
Experience with containerization and virtualization technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes
Financial services industry experience
Experience working as a Data Architect for a Fortune 100 corporation is a plus
Technical Requirements
5+ years development experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines, database systems (schema definition, data modeling etc).
5+ years of Python development experience.
Expert skills working with SQL queries, including performance tuning, utilizing indexes, and materialized views to improve query performance.
Advanced knowledge of both OLTP and OLAP environments with successful implementation of efficient design concepts.
Proficiency with the design and execution of NoSQL database to optimize BigData storage and retrieval.
Experience with API code integrations with external vendors to push/pull data between organizations.
Familiarity with data orchestration pipeline using Argo or Airflow.
Knowledge of analytic tools such as R, Tableau, Plotly, Python Pandas.
Understand data privacy and related security practices.
Experience working with global, distributed teams
Please note that this role is being posted by Personal Capital, an Empower company. Personal Capital roles are cross-posted to the Empower web site and are also available at https://www.personalcapital.com/company/jobs. For more information about Personal Capital, please visit www.personalcapital.com
What we offer you
We offer an array of diverse and inclusive benefits regardless of where you are in your career. We believe that providing our employees with the means to lead healthy balanced lives results in the best possible work performance.
The salary range below describes the minimum to maximum base salary range for this position in the location listed. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation offered may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.
Base Salary Range
$ 134,500.00-215,200.00Location
CO RemoteWe are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age (40 and over), race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law.