Senior Associate, Solution Engineering (Data Engineer)

Senior Associate, Solution Engineering (Data Engineer) – Pune, India

Want to work on global strategic initiatives with a FinTech company that is poised to revolutionize the industry? Join the team and help shape our company’s digital capabilities and revolutionize an industry! Join Western Union as Senior Associate, Solution Engineering.

Western Union powers your pursuit.

The Senior Associate, Solution engineering has a significant role in realizing the vision of the strategy and ensuring that products and services are developed with the needs of our customers in mind. This role has significance in system stability analysis and using insight from customers and colleagues worldwide to improve financial services for families, small businesses, multinational corporations, and non-profit organizations.

Role Responsibilities

• To design, build and maintain complex data lake and warehouse while ensuring easy and secure access to data.
• Develop processes for data management across the enterprise or to support specific business use cases real-time and batch.
• Define and implement data security and governance to protect data from unauthorized access.
• Analyze current warehouse data for data quality issues and processes for continuous improvement, data organization, accuracy, and up-to-date availability of data.
• Provide technical & domain expertise on the different data domains across the enterprise and apply to solving product challenges.
• Automating processes and identifying opportunities for cost savings.
• Gather requirements, analyze requirements, and engineer/develop an integration solution that is flexible, performant, scalable, modularized, and accurately manages business data/information with high data quality and error recovery/handling techniques.
• Establish and maintain comprehensive data architecture and data integration documentation, including flows, transformations aligned with core design principles, techniques, standards and best practices, and thorough code reviews.
• Scope of work includes development, testing, optimization, migration, and maintenance/support tasks.
• Demonstrate strong capabilities in assessing business needs while providing creative and effective solutions in conformance to emerging technology standards.
• Interface and collaborate with other engineers in geographically distributed development centers.
• Strong emphasis on customer journey, product quality, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and continuous development.
• Applying Agile methodology daily and follow Definition of Done (DoD) process for better quality by maintaining 80%-unit test coverage and 70% integration test coverage.
• Define, design, and implement complex, multi-tier distributed software systems throughout all phases of the software development process.
• Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and roll out applications with cross-functional impacts.
• To share engineering support and release.

Role Requirements

• 4 - 5 years of hands-on experience as an Enterprise Data Lake/Warehouse Engineer in a large-scale enterprise data warehouse environment.
• Strong background and competency in enterprise data lake, data warehouse, data architecture, data management and data pipelines in streaming/real-time/near real time/batch modes.
• Proficiency with Talend Cloud, HVR, Matillion, AWS S3, Snowflake, Salesforce, Kafka, Unix, Python, Java, XML/Avro/JSON/Parquet file formats, RESTful and SOAP based web services.
• Knowledge on AWS Services, Cloud/On-Prem Databases, SFTP is good to have.
• Experience with standard security practices to encrypt / decrypt files or PII fields.
• Experience using DevOps tools and agile development methodologies with TDD and CI/CD.
• Good analytical and troubleshooting skills for effective problem solving.
• Ability to work independently, handle multiple tasks, understand the need for consistent process and attention to details.
• Team player with strong analytical, verbal, and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross functional teams.
• Ability to work in a fast paced, iterative development environment and adapt to changing business priorities and to thrive under pressure.
• Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, OOPs, and OOA/D.
• Proven ability to understand business and ability to contribute to technology direction that drives measurable business improvements.

We make financial services accessible to humans everywhere. Join us for what’s next.

Western Union is positioned to become the world’s most accessible financial services company — transforming lives and communities. To support this, we have launched a Digital Banking Service and Wallet across several European markets to enhance our customers’ experiences by offering a state-of-the-art digital Ecosystem. More than moving money, we design easy-to-use products and services for our digital and physical financial ecosystem that help our customers move forward.

Just as we help our global customers prosper, we support our employees in achieving their professional aspirations. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to learn new skills and build a career, as well as receive a great compensation package. If you’re ready to help drive the future of financial services, it’s time for the Western Union. Learn more about our purpose and people at https://careers.westernunion.com/.

Benefits

You will also have access to short-term incentives, multiple health insurance options, accident and life insurance, and access to best-in-class development platforms, to name a few (https://careers.westernunion.com/global-benefits/). Please see the location-specific benefits below and note that your Recruiter may share additional role-specific benefits during your interview process or in an offer of employment.

Your India specific benefits include:

• Employees Provident Fund [EPF]

• Gratuity Payment
• Public holidays
• Annual Leave, Sick leave, Compensatory leave, and Maternity / Paternity leave
• Annual Health Check up
• Hospitalization Insurance Coverage (Mediclaim)
• Group Life Insurance, Group Personal Accident Insurance Coverage, Business Travel Insurance
• Cab Facility
• Relocation Benefit

Western Union values in-person collaboration, learning, and ideation whenever possible. We believe this creates value through common ways of working and supports the execution of enterprise objectives which will ultimately help us achieve our strategic goals. By connecting face-to-face, we are better able to learn from our peers, problem-solve together, and innovate.  

Our Hybrid Work Model categorizes each role into one of three categories. Western Union has determined the category of this role to be Hybrid. This is defined as a flexible working arrangement that enables employees to divide their time between working from home and working from an office location. The expectation is to work from the office a minimum of three days a week. 

We are passionate about diversity. Our commitment is to provide an inclusive culture that celebrates the unique backgrounds and perspectives of our global teams while reflecting the communities we serve. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, political affiliation, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, or veteran status. The company will provide accommodation to applicants, including those with disabilities, during the recruitment process, following applicable laws.

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