[Remote] Lead Full-Stack Platform Engineer - KFI Data Platform (Remote)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. KBRA (KBRA Holdings, LLC) is seeking an engaged and proactive Data Engineer to work with financial data and supplemental data sets to enhance analysis and visibility into financial institutions. The role involves collaborating with a team to design, deliver, and support systems, while focusing on technical quality and continuous improvement of the product.
Responsibilities
- Set and drive the technical vision for the team and partner with peer staff/principal engineers to shape direction across adjacent teams (data platform, reporting, internal and external frontends & apps)
- Sit at the table with product and business stakeholders (KBRA Analytics, Bank Product) to translate strategy into a multi-quarter technical roadmap, make build/buy/sunset calls, and own the architectural decisions that come out of them
- Own the architecture of a Snowflake lakehouse ingesting 30+ regulatory and market data sources (FFIEC, FDIC, NCUA, FactSet, Xignite, SEC EDGAR, FRED, etc.) via S3 external tables, Dask-based transforms, and SQS / Mongo change-stream event pipelines
- Design and evolve reusable Terraform modules spanning AWS, Azure, Snowflake, MongoDB Atlas, GitLab, Datadog, etc
- Drive CI/CD, IaC, and acceptance-test (BDD/behave) standards across the team
- Mentor engineers and act as code-owner across IaC, data-lake, and application repos
Skills
- Expert Python (ex/ Flask, Dash, Dask, Pandas)
- Deep experience with AWS (ex. S3, IAM, SQS, Lambda, IRSA)
- Terraform at module-author level
- Advanced SQL and Snowflake (ex. external tables, MVs, performance tuning)
- Experience designing high-throughput ETL over diverse formats (ex. Parquet, JSON, CSV, XML, zipped archives)
- Supporting legacy systems and responding to incidents
- Able to work in a collaborative environment
- Have experience collaborating and communicating with technical and non-technical partners
- Has a sense of ownership and craftsmanship in legacy and green field codebases
- Enjoy helping other developers grow and learn new technologies
- .NET (for cross-team integrations)
- Azure compute/identity/queue services
- MongoDB Atlas
- Datadog APM
- Auth0
- GitLab CI at scale
Benefits
- Competitive benefits and paid time off
- Paid family and disability leave
- 401(k) plan, including employer match (100% vested)
- Educational and professional development financial assistance
- Employee referral bonus program
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