Sr Data Engineer

Join a winning team of innovative thinkers, seasoned mortgage professionals, and financial experts. Build your career at Planet—recognized as a Top Mortgage Employer by National Mortgage Professional.

Job Summary

The Sr Data Engineer leverages expertise in Azure (or equivalent) cloud services and data engineering to design, implement, and optimize scalable data solutions that drive business value and insights.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Designs and implements scalable ETL pipelines using Azure services (or equivalent cloud technologies)
• Implements and optimizes data warehouse architecture and performance
• Leads data integration projects and mentors junior engineers
• Establishes data quality standards and monitoring systems
• Collaborates with stakeholders to understand data requirements
• Develops and maintains documentation for data processes
• Performs miscellaneous duties as assigned

Position Requirements

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent related work experience required.

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of progressive data engineering experience
• Minimum 2 years of mortgage industry experience

Functional/Technical Skills

• Azure Services: Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, Databricks, Logic Apps, Functions, Key Vault (or equivalent technologies from other cloud vendors)
• Programming: Python, PySpark, SQL, T-SQL, C#, .NET, Scala
• Database Systems: SQL Server, Azure Data Warehouse, MySQL, Oracle
• ETL/ELT Tools: Azure Data Factory, SSIS
• Version Control: Azure DevOps, Git
• Visualization Tools: PowerBI, Tableau
• Experience with cloud-based data warehouse architecture
• Strong knowledge of ETL/ELT processes and best practices
• Expertise in data modeling and optimization
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Knowledge of data governance and security practices
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies

Environmental/Physical Demands

Work is typically performed in a standard office environment. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sustain predictable work attendance, communicate with others, frequently required to stand, walk, sit, and use arms, hands and fingers to reach, handle or touch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus. Pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of an employee. The Company reserves the right to amend or modify this document at any time and without notice.

Benefits

Our benefits package includes 3 comprehensive Cigna or Kaiser medical plans, dental, and vision insurance. We provide short term and long-term disability insurance, basic life insurance, 401(k), and 11 employer paid holidays. In addition, we offer supplemental benefits to include life insurance, critical illness and accident plans.                                                                                          

Planet Home Lending does not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate submissions from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an enforceable, fully executed agreement for a specified position, Planet Home Lending has no obligation to pay any compensation or recruiter fee of any kind. In the event a recruiter, agency or other similar third-party submits a resume or candidate without a valid binding agreement, Planet Home Lending explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any obligation or compensation to the referring party. Any unsolicited resumes, referrals, or candidate submissions, including those communicated to a member of the Human Resources team or a hiring manager, shall be deemed the property of Planet Home Lending.  If you or your agency would like to be considered as a future recruiting partner, please email HR-Recruiting@planethomelending.com.