Data Engineer

Description/Job Summary

Join a team focused on the success of our customers, the success of our communities, and the success of each other. Farm Credit East (FCE) is the leading provider of loans and farm advisory services to farm, forest product, fishing, and other agricultural business owners across the northeast with $11.7 billion in total loan volume and $29 million in annual financial services revenue from 18,000 customers across our 8-state territory. We are One Team Working Together with a focus on our five pillars: Outstanding Customer and Employee Experience, Quality Growth, Operational Excellence, Commitment to our Communities, and Protecting Customer Information. 

The Data Engineer is responsible for cleaning, managing, and sharing data that guides business decisions. Using ETL tools you will gather data from a variety of sources, checking for anomalies, automating processes, and generally making it easier for business stakeholders to generate valuable insights. This position will collaborate with internal and external organizations to capture requirements, design, create, document, manage, and fulfill requests for on-going and/or ad-hoc reports, dashboards, and scorecards.

The value drivers for this role are as follows:

• Improved Business Decision-Making: By providing clean, reliable, and accessible data, the Data Engineer enables business stakeholders to make informed decisions.
• Increased Operational Efficiency: Automating data processes and managing data effectively reduces manual effort and minimizes errors, leading to increased productivity.
• Faster Insights Generation: By designing and creating reports, dashboards, and scorecards, the Data Engineer enables business stakeholders to quickly generate valuable insights and respond to changing business conditions.
• Data-Guided Culture: By making data more accessible and usable, the Data Engineer helps to foster a data-guided culture within the organization, driving business growth and innovation.
• Enhanced Business Intelligence: By providing high-quality data and analytics, the Data Engineer enables business stakeholders to gain deeper insights into business performance and make more informed strategic decisions.

Come join a collaborative, customer-focused team at Farm Credit East!

Duties and Responsibilities

Data Management and Integration

•  Design, develop, and maintain ETL processes to gather data from various sources
• Ensure data quality by checking for anomalies and implementing data validation rules
• Manage and maintain large datasets, ensuring data integrity and availability
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify data requirements and develop data models to meet those needs

Data Governance 

• Collaborate with data stakeholders to identify and document data assets, data lineage, and data quality metrics
• Develop and maintain data catalogs, metadata repositories, and other data governance tools to support data discovery and management
• Enforce data governance policies and procedures to ensure data quality, security, and compliance

Collaboration and Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders (e.g. business users, analysts) to understand data requirements and develop solutions to meet those needs
• Work with external stakeholders (e.g. vendors, partners) to integrate data from external sources
• Communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders, ensuring that data insights are accessible to a broad audience
• Document data processes, data models, and reporting solutions to ensure knowledge sharing and continuity.

Job Qualifications and Requirements:

• This position requires a Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Agri-Business, Economics, Finance, Business or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience to perform the essential functions of the job.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server
• Databricks and DBT experience 
• 2 plus years of experience with Python programing in a business setting.
• 2 plus years of experience in Finance related informatics, performance measurement, or analysis with strong relational database SQL skills.
• 1 plus years of experience using Microsoft Azure product to perform ETL.
• Familiar with Databricks Unity catalog
• We offer hybrid work options after two weeks of employment with Farm Credit East. Hybrid work options are determined based on job role and balancing the needs of the customers, the team, and individual work performance. This will be reviewed based on manager discretion.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Salary Range: $80,000 to $100,000 commensurate with experience
• Short-Term Incentive to reward business results
•  Retirement Contributions :
  • 401k match up to 6% of salary; or for those unable to take full advantage of the 401(k) match, verified student loan payments may qualify for an employer match in your 401(k) up to 6% of salary
  • Defined Contribution retirement plan funded at 2-9% of salary depending on years of service
• Time Off:
  • 15-25 days of vacation leave per year, depending on years of service
  • 12 days of holiday leave per year
  • 7.5 days of sick leave in your first year, followed by 12 days of sick leave per year thereafter; unlimited rollover of unused sick leave year to year
• Health and Insurance:
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, including preventive care and wellness programs to support your overall health and well-being
  • Health Savings Account
  • Life insurance at 2x base pay
  • Accidental Death and Dismemberment insurance at 2x base pay
  • Long-term disability insurance at 2/3 base pay
• Additional Benefits: 
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Continuing education and training
  • Employee Assistance Program offering a wide variety of tools and resources

Farm Credit East is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, parental status, political affiliation, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information or any other status protected by federal, state or local law. It is our goal to make employment decisions that further the principle of equal employment opportunity by utilizing objective standards based upon an individual's qualifications for a specific job opening. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), if you have a disability and would like a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for a position with Farm Credit East, please call 1-800-562-2235 or e-mail FarmCreditCareers@farmcrediteast.com