Senior Lead Data Engineer

Together we fight for everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future.

We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future.  We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.

Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action.  We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.

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Note: this will be a hybrid role with an average of 3 days required in office at our NYC location.

Get to Know the Opportunity:Highest level technical resource overseeing the technical aspects of software projects to achieve the Investment Management line of business goals. Responsible for designing and writing software, and for providing guidance and oversight to multiple teams working on numerous products and/or developing various forms of technologies. Think strategically and have long-range goals in mind. The Contributions You'll Make:

• Lead the design and development of scalable and performant data pipelines using best-in-class tools and practices.
• Parse, analyze, and understand datasets with a focus on application in business use-cases.
• Manage data storage solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Perform data reconciliations, validations, quality checks across various data sources and systems and identify enrichment opportunities.
• Acts as a technical SME, prepares technical specifications and design specifications. 
• Advocate for data quality through automation, validation frameworks, and rigorous testing both internally and externally
• Analyze project requirements and accordingly provide technical and functional recommendations.
• Leads data engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement and providing guidance and support in their professional development.
• Recommend new technologies to improve system performance and reliability to senior leadership.

Minimum Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering or a directly related field
• 10+ years of experience in data engineering, with a strong background in building and maintaining data pipeline and ELT processes to ingest data from external data provider.
• Data warehouse model experiences with financial IBOR / ABOR, transaction, market data, and/or reference data.
• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, with 5+ years in leadership roles, managing large, distributed teams
• Demonstrated leadership in managing competing priorities and delivering results in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong data analytical proficiency with SQL and Python
• Experiences with Snowflake and Snowpark.
• Experiences with dbt.
• Experiences with Data Test and Quality framework such as SODA, Great Expectation, dbt test.
• Experiences with orchestration tools such as Airflow, Prefect, Luigi, or Dagster.
• Experiences with scheduling tools such as Tidal, Control-M, or cron.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional business and technology group.

Nice to have Experience:

• Experiences with Databricks and PySpark.
• Experiences with LLMs and NLP
• Experiences with Market Data and/or Alternative Data
• Experiences with PowerBI, Tableau, or Looker

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Compensation Pay Disclosure:

Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.

The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.

Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

$154,070 - $192,590 USD

Be Well. Stay Well.

Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That’s why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.

What We Offer

• Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
• 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
• Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
• Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year

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Critical Skills

At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:

• Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
• Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
• Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
• Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
• Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.

Reasonable Accommodations

Voya is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Voya will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please reference resources for applicants with disabilities.

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