About MCU:

At Municipal Credit Union, we believe that an incredible culture helps create a happy and motivated team that works hard to achieve the best results for themselves and their members. For more than 100 years, MCU has provided affordable financial products and convenient services to a membership base that is now comprised of over 600,000 individuals. With each new generation we have the pleasure of interacting with, we maintain the credit union promise of people helping people.

Our Mission:

To help hard-working New Yorkers build better tomorrows

Our Vision:

Be New York's most loved financial institution by helping our members build their best financial futures

Overview: The data engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining robust data pipelines and models that support enterprise analytics and application development. This role requires a strong background in data integration, transformation, and quality assurance, ensuring that data is consistently reliable, accurate, and usable for business needs.

Responsibilities:

Specific duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

Integrate data sets from various source systems into unified formats.
Perform ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) operations to convert source data types into standardized target formats.
Cleanse and transform data by applying business rules to ensure consistency and usability.
Conduct data cleansing and validation to meet enterprise data quality standards.
Monitor and troubleshoot data issues to maintain high reliability and accuracy.
Create and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
Ensure models align with business requirements and support analytics and application development.
Build and maintain data pipelines that retrieve, standardize, and transform data from source systems.
Load processed data into analytical data stores and prepare it for consumption by developers and analysts.
Monitor the performance and quality of data transfers between source and target systems.

Integrate test suites into CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous validation of data pipelines

Optimize data flows for efficiency, scalability, and reliability.
Communicate well and work closely with team members including Analysts, Product Managers, and business users to gather requirements, troubleshoot, modify, and enhance existing Data assets.

Develop backend applications in Database using TSQL/PLSQL in Microsoft SQL Server. Write complex code in stored procedures or PL SQL.

Troubleshoot to find root cause with data accuracy and/or performance related issues and find solutions to fix it by creating indexes, transaction isolation levels and optimizing code.
Resolve database performance issues by looking at query plans, create appropriate indexes, resolve dead locks and create table hints
Ability to support the team in a high-volume environment to meet deadlines while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
Function as an expert and perform optimally within an agile development framework, properly creating or leading the team to create user stories and estimating effort and duration.
Lead and manage end-to end life cycle to produce software and applications through project conception to completion.
Adhere to all regulatory compliance training inclusive of BSA/AML/OFAC and overall BSA/AML/OFAC compliance.
Participate in monthly on-call rotation.
Perform other related duties as requested and special projects as assigned.
Written and verbal communication skills.

Ability to communicate with other members of the team.
Highly Ethical.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or the equivalent combination of education, training, and 6-8 years of experience
Proficiency in SQL and data pipeline tools (e.g., Fabric, Azure Data Factory).
Expertise in delivering and improving data quality in a Big Data environment in cloud for Enterprise Data Lake (Azure or similar), Data Warehouse (Azure Synapse or similar), and Data Hubs (Azure Cosmos DB or similar)
Strong understanding of ETL processes and data warehousing concepts.
Experience with DevOps toolset (Azure DevOps or similar) to collaborate and deploy code
Experience in Test case design, execution, and defect tracking
Familiarity with QA methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum)
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to stakeholders at all levels
Experience with data modeling and metadata management.
Familiarity with data quality frameworks and validation techniques.
Ability to troubleshoot and resolve data-related issues quickly and effectively.
Excellent communication and documentation skills to support cross-functional collaboration

Expertise in .NET based architecture, including advanced concepts like enterprise application integration. Deep knowledge of C# and its application in building scalable, high-performance systems.
Advanced skills in Microsoft SQL Server, including database optimization, performance tuning, and complex SSIS package development.
Extensive experience with Reporting tools such Crystal Reports or SQL Reports.
Familiarity with Symitar and its related technologies such as PowerOn, SymXchange, OpCon, and ARCU. This is a key differentiator for this role.
Other: Desirable experience with SharePoint for collaborative products and workflows.

Why you'll be a good fit:

Our Core Values are an integral part of who we are and who we hire. By living our Core Values, every day, we continue to attract the best and brightest talent, achieve unsurpassed results and continuously challenge ourselves to be better than yesterday. These values are at the heart of our organization and within every teammate. To be a great fit, you’ll bring the following

Results - We are passionate about winning.

Agility - We proactively anticipate, respond and pivot to ensure MCU wins.

Integrity - We operate with the highest ethical standards and highest degree of honesty.

Belonging - We cultivate a culture of inclusion and teamwork.

Ownership - We take personal responsibility and hold ourselves accountable for the results.

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

The pay range for this position is between $106,300-150,000 annually. Actual base pay offered may vary depending on a number of factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Employees in this position may also be eligible for a discretionary bonus, 401(k) with an 6% employer match per pay period. Benefits for this position include Medical, vision, dental, life, and disability insurance, flexible paid time off and 11 paid holidays annually.

Municipal Credit Union (MCU) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Municipal Credit Union provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

We are committed to hiring, training, cultivating, promoting, and celebrating an environment where we have a welcoming and fulfilling place for all people to call home. Diversity of race, thought, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, religion, and disability will empower us to thrive as individuals, as teams, and as an organization.

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