Senior Data Engineer

Cetera Financial Group is looking for a motivated, innovative data engineer to help shape and extend our data estate as we build the future of fintech. Our modern, cloud-native and AI-enabled data platform optimizes speed, scale and quality with a contemporary design that leverages governed data contracts to drive intelligent, flexible and resilient data pipelines.

This opportunity requires experience with Lakehouse architecture, cloud-native integration patterns, and expertise with the latest data engineering best practices to deliver clean, automated, well-documented and auditable data products for enterprise consumers and analytics. This collaborative role works closely with product owners and engineering leads to translate business and regulatory needs, including data ingestion, lineage, PII protection, and quality goals, into an automated future-forward data platform using AI-powered software engineering to develop secure, extensible and well-tested code within an enterprise data ecosystem.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include:

• Design, build and maintain data ingestion, discovery and consumption pipelines across file-based feeds, APIs, change-data-capture and streaming sources, driven by reusable, declarative data contracts
• Collaborate with product owners, engineering leads and data stewards to gather and implement requirements, ensuring data pipelines and contracts reflect prioritized business imperatives
• Own the onboarding of new data sources end-to-end through pipeline development, field mapping, type management, enrichment and quality/privacy rule definitions
• Work with orchestration and metadata systems to process event, dependency and schedule-driven activities
• Support and extend the downstream data models that power business intelligence and reporting
• Apply modern software engineering practices to ensure pipeline changes are well-specified and production ready, backed by automated unit and end-to-end tests
• Use AI-assisted development tools for coding, testing and documentation, while staying accountable for correctness, security and sound architecture
• Participate in CI/CD and DevOps best practices for data platform development, validation and deployment
• Monitor pipeline health and data processing in production, troubleshooting and routing issues to the appropriate remediation process Maintain documentation, including operational runbooks, to capture and share data platform knowledge and insights

Experience & Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of programming experience with an advanced, object-oriented language (Python preferred)
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with SQL, writing efficient code for high-volume data processing and supporting high-performing ETL processes, including data quality and testing practices
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with data warehousing/Lakehouse design and implementation on cloud-based platforms (e.g. AWS, Databricks, Snowflake)
• Experience with event-driven data ingestion patterns and Lakehouse table formats (e.g. Apache Iceberg)
• Experience with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices
• Experience with Agile development methodologies

About Us

What we give you in return:

Not many teams can say that they support people’s dreams coming to life. We happen to do that every day. And as important as we know your career is, we recognize that there’s a whole lot more to life. To ensure that our employees can make the most of their time outside of working hours, we offer a competitive salary and for full-time roles, a benefits package including:

• Inclusive health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans built to support diverse lifestyles, offer preventative care, and protect against hardship.
• Easy access to mental health benefits to meet our team members and their families where they are.
• 20+ days of paid time off (PTO), paid holidays, and 2 paid wellness days to give our employees the time they need to stay close with their loved ones, recharge, and give back to their communities.
• 401(k) savings plan with a generous company contribution (up to 5%), and access to a financial professional to offer our employees the opportunity to plan-ahead for a strong financial future well beyond their working years.
• Paid parental leave to support all team members with birth, adoption, and fostering.
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Account options to help you save money on healthcare, daycare, commuting, and more.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), LifeLock, Pet Insurance and more.
• Paid caregiver leave to provide time away from work when caring for an ill or recovering family member.
• Additional benefits such as an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), identity theft protection (LifeLock), pet insurance, and other voluntary benefits to provide extra peace of mind

About Cetera

Cetera Financial Group ® (Cetera) is a leading network of independent retail broker-dealers and registered investment advisers empowering the delivery of objective financial advice to individuals, families, and company retirement plans across the country through trusted financial advisors and financial institutions. Cetera is one of the largest independent financial advisor networks in the nation and a leading provider of retail services to the investment programs of banks and credit unions.

Advisor support resources offered through Cetera include award-winning wealth management and advisory platforms, comprehensive broker-dealer and registered investment adviser services, practice management support, and innovative technology.

Cetera Financial Group (Cetera) is a network of independent retail firms, including those that are members of FINRA/SIPC: Cetera Advisors LLC; Cetera Wealth Services, LLC (formerly known as Cetera Advisor Networks); Cetera Investment Services LLC (marketed as Cetera Financial Institutions or Cetera Investors); and Cetera Financial Specialists LLC. Entities registered as investment advisers with the Securities and Exchange Commission include Cetera Investment Management LLC and Cetera Investment Advisers LLC. Cetera's principal office is located at 655 W. Broadway, 11th Floor, San Diego, CA 92101. Avantax Planning Partners, Inc. is an SEC registered investment adviser within the Aretec Group, Inc. (dba Cetera Holdings, an affiliate of Cetera). All the referenced entities are under common ownership.

Cetera Financial Group is committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. For us, this is the only acceptable way to do business. Accordingly, all employment decisions at Cetera Financial Group, including those relating to hiring, promotion, transfers, benefits, compensation, and placement, will be made without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic characteristics, religion, religious dress and/or grooming, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, U.S. military status, political affiliation, or any other class protected by state and/or federal law.

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