Data Engineer

Synopsis of the role

This role is responsible for building Equifax’s Entity Resolution system for both our Consumer and Commercial bureau. Also, the development and maintenance of ongoing programs/project metrics, presentations, analyses, dashboards, etc. to inform a wide variety of stakeholders. Work location of this role will be our Bangalore office.

What you’ll do

• Work with key stakeholders and understand their needs to develop new or improve existing Entity Resolution (keying & linking) and Data management processes
• Work in a cross-functional team
• Provide hands-on support and guidance in the design and development of solutions using large datasets within GCP/Ignite platform
• Deploy innovations, including but not limited to AI/ML techniques for Entity Resolution and Data Management in Ignite Internal Data lake
• Understand the various aspects of architecture practices: business, application, data, security, infrastructure and governance
• Define and capture business and functional requirements for key projects or assignments
• Facilitate team meetings involving business and technical resources
• Coordinate, execute, and monitor processes to ensure project objectives are met

What experience you need

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or other related discipline
• Minimum of 7 years of data management, engineering, and/or, data analysis experience in the credit risk, financial services domain
• Minimum of 2 years of experience managing small/mid-size teams required
• Experience using programming languages such as Python or SQL and intermediate level experience with scripting languages.
• Intermediate level understanding and experience with Google Cloud Platforms and overall cloud computing concepts, as well as basic knowledge of other cloud environments.
• Experience in leveraging data pipelines, troubleshooting issues, transforming and entering data into a data pipeline in order for the content to be digested and usable for future projects.
• Experience in designing and implementing moderately complex data models and experience enabling optimization to improve performance
• Apply the knowledge of data characteristics and data supply pattern, develop rules and tracking process to support data quality model.
• Prepare data for analytical use by building data pipelines to gather data from multiple sources and systems.
• Integrate, consolidate, cleanse and structure data for use by our clients in our solutions.
• Perform design, creation, and interpretation of large and highly complex datasets.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and advancements in GCP and related technologies, actively proposing and evaluating new solutions.
• Understand best practices for data management, maintenance, reporting and security and use that knowledge to implement improvements in our solutions.
• Communicate with the global teams in regions with Equifax presence to share best practices and guide adoption strategies.
• Develop and implement data quality checks and troubleshoot data anomalies.
• Experience with credit data products.
• Cloud certification.
• Experience in performing analysis using Google BigQuery, BigTable, and other Google Cloud Platform technologies, Google DataFlow, Scala+ Spark or PySpark.
• Experience working with data schema / formats such as JSON, AVRO, PARQUE

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