Sr. Azure Data Engineer

Overview & Responsibilities Republic Finance is seeking an Senior Azure Data Engineer to join our IT & Data Management team! At Republic Finance, we are building a leading consumer lending company. In business for over 60 years, we are proud to be a trusted lender in over 200 communities across the Southeastern United States! We specialize in providing flexible lending solutions and outstanding customer service. Driven by our shared mission to pursue excellence for our team, our customers, and our performance, Republic Finance is transforming into a modern, fast-growing business. We thrive on teamwork, collaboration, and accountability. We hold dear the trust our customers place in us, and we strive to strengthen those relationships by building a deep understanding of our customers’ needs. This role will be a part of a team responsible for design and integration of platforms, systems, and data warehouse solutions to ensure robust campaign management, decision execution, performance monitoring, and risk-related data management. This team member must be highly dynamic, strategic, bold, curious, and highly collaborative. It is highly preferred that the candidate possesses a broad and deep understanding of digital capabilities in the lending space, must have a solid grasp of consumer behavior and trends, and curiosity and desire to help with constructing the vision and roadmap to achieve a quantum leap in our analytic capabilities and digitization through the implementation of cutting-edge tools, technologies, enhanced data, and highly integrated systems and processes. This position reports directly to the CRM lead and will interface regularly with senior leaders from the across the organization. In addition, this individual will be a part of discussions and negotiations with external partners and cutting-edge vendors in the field of data management and analytics and machine learning. Job responsibilities are as follows: Working on data architecture building ETL pipelines Cloud migration strategy Writing self-explanatory, clean code Making frequent, small releases producing the same, predictable results Peer code reviews Understanding requirements and driving the technical architecture Developing test framework, scenarios, and strategy Requirements Experience with cloud service providers like Azure, along with data storage and analytic services like Data Lake Experience in creating SSIS/Apache NiFi packages for ETL Azure Data Factory and other relevant services SQL Python/Java SOAP/REST Web Services Expertise in creating tables, procedures, functions, triggers, indexes, views, joins and optimization of complex queries Experience with database versioning, backups, restores and migration Expertise in data security and integrity Ability to perform database performance tuning queries Experience in web architecture, providing design and development recommendations and optimizing existing infrastructure Experience in object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and software engineering methodologies Experience working in Agile and Extreme Programming methodologies in a continuous deployment environment Interest in mastering technologies like web server ecosystems, relational DBMS, TDD, CI tools like Jenkins, Hudson and Bamboo, complexity analysis and performance optimization Working knowledge of server configuration / deployment Infrastructure Experience using source control and bug tracking systems, writing user stories and technical documentation Benefits We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package including: Health/Dental/Vision Paid Time Off (PTO) 401 (K) and employer match Company provided Life Insurance & Long Term Disability Additional benefits with Republic Finance include: Employee of the Month Program Philanthropic support for charities such as Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the American Cancer Society Professional offices with a friendly team environment Republic Finance, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age disability or veteran status in employment opportunities and benefits. Republic Finance, LLC maintains a Drug-Free Workplace.