Federal Reserve Financial Services Lead/Sr. Data Platform Engineer - Federal Reserve Bank (FRB)

Company

Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, Fedwire® Funds and Securities, the National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®1, FedACH®, Check Services, and the FedNow® Service. FRFS operates as a fully integrated organization with groups dedicated to operations, technology, product and industry engagement, enterprise services, and one focused on the ongoing growth and development of the FedNow instant payment service. Our strategy defines our future direction, seeking to offer a fully integrated product suite that provides speed, resilience, and choice in meeting the payments needs of financial institutions across the United States. Through our Enterprise structure, we strive to meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services with speed and agility, seek to provide a robust and unified customer experience, and work to create career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.
We seek leaders to set the vision, strategy, values, and priorities that enable FRFS to achieve its mission. Our leaders must demonstrate a strategic, action-oriented mindset focused on intellectual curiosity, agility, accountability, and the ability to drive innovation through experimentation. To achieve our vision for a people-focused organization with a strong collaborative and innovative culture, we expect our leaders to champion an inclusive environment and demonstrate our values in how we work and interact with each other and our broader community.
We value the diversity of our people, ideas, and experiences and are committed to building an inclusive culture that is representative of the communities we serve.

We are a dynamic hybrid workplace environment that requires at least 2 days a week in the office.

As a Federal Reserve System National Business Line, it is standard practice to post FRFS positions in all twelve Districts to provide transparency and equitable opportunities for all FRS employees to apply. Internal candidate(s) selected for this position will remain employed by their current employing District and serve as an employee of FRFS. The selected candidate’s new job title and associated pay range will be determined by the employing District and will continue to be subject to the employing District’s people policies and practices (i.e., remote/hybrid work posture, etc.)

The Data Platform Engineer performs a critical role delivering the core capabilities and features of a strategic cloud data management platform. This position will be responsible for the delivery of platform enablers including the design, build, security and operationalization of reusable data platform components in support of Financial Services data users and stakeholders. The Data Platform Engineer is expected to maintain a deep technical knowledge of data management capabilities and tools to create platform patterns and technical best-practices with the goal of increasing adoption, operational efficiency, and realized business value for the Federal Reserve Bank and Financial Services. This position does not have direct reports. 

Principle Duties and Responsibilities

Platform Lifecycle

• Drive design, engineering, implementation and configuration of platform services to support overall enterprise patterns and reenforcing best practices.

• Develop patterns for common platform needs (e.g. logging, monitoring, alerting, backup, encryption, tooling, etc.) across all layers of the platform and supporting services.

• Works with business and technology partners to identify, define, interpret and clarify scope of the data management platform integrations.

• Partner with Information Security representatives to develop, implement and/or execute security configurations and controls.

• Apply and integrate emerging technology trends to new and existing platform enablers.

• Support and refine the utilization strategy for the platform and enhance its overall architecture, security, performance and financial aspects. 

• Contribute to platform, product and architectural roadmaps.

Platform Administration

• Performs development of common platform components and advanced configuration activities in the data platform.

• Creates integrations between the data management platform and FRS and other 3rd party applications.

• Manages the core security model configurations in accordance with information security. 

• Develops real-time and batch ETL/ELT data processes aligned with business needs.

• Manages and augments the data pipeline from solutions, such as databases and storage solutions, to data solution structures.

Operational Excellence

• Provide support for deployed data applications and analytical models by being a trusted advisor to Data Scientists and other data consumers by identifying data problems and guiding issue resolution.

• Assists in creating the data management strategies to support business intelligence efforts for various stakeholders

• Develops and maintains automation for deployments to reduce manual processes and improve efficiencies across systems and data centers. 

• Leads solution design discussions, develops work effort estimates for implementation and presents solutions.

• Drafts and maintains solution documentation for platform components, integrations, and common use patterns to meet all architectural, security and operational requirements as defined by the larger Federal Reserve System.

Your Background

The Platform Data Engineer will need to provide demonstrated experience in cloud development, cloud technologies, and data lake architectures.  This includes:

• Experience delivering platform solutions from design to production

• Experience integrating platform with 3rd party solutions (e.g. from cloud to on-prem and vice-versa, etc.)

• Experience engineering solutions across a heterogeneous datacenter, cloud and SaaS environments

• Experience using standard development practices

• Experience with change management systems and processes

• Experience with cloud scripting languages (e.g. Python, Java, etc.)

• Experience with CI/CD tools and processes (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, etc.)

• Platform certification is a plus (e.g. AWS Practitioner, Big Data, etc.)

• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) highly desired

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

• 6 -plus years of direct work-related experience

• For Lead role: Minimum 8 years architecting, designing and engineering highly complex technology solutions across multiple diverse platforms requiring high performing, high volume transaction processing

Our total rewards program offers benefits that are the best fit for you at every stage of your career:

• Comprehensive healthcare options (Medical, Dental, and Vision)

• 401K match, and a fully funded pension plan

• Paid vacation and holidays; flexible work environment

• Generously subsidized public transportation

• Education Assistance Program

• Professional development programs, training and conferences

• And more…

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, performance standards or requirements, efforts, skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (e.g. emergencies, rush jobs, change in workload or technological developments).

 The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is an equal opportunity employer.

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