About StarCompliance
StarCompliance is on a mission to make compliance simple and easy. Trusted globally by enterprise financial institutions, the user-friendly STAR platform empowers organizations to achieve regulatory compliance while safeguarding their integrity and business reputations. Through a customizable, 360-degree view of employee activity, the STAR software enables firms to automate the detection and resolution of potential areas of conflict while streamlining daily workflows and increasing efficiency.
Role
You will be responsible for enhancing our external Data Analytics platform to provide a consistent, quality product for our clients to utilise, providing data and dashboards to thousands of users across hundreds of clients across the globe.
As the Data Engineer, you will be hands-on, continually contributing to a data warehouse utilising Snow SQL, T-SQL, and JavaScript, building and designing new features, investigating and solving data issues, and constructing tooling within a team of developers and QAs. Our platform utilises a contemporary cloud-based tech stack, featuring Microsoft Azure, Snowflake, and ThoughtSpot, alongside in-house data-ingestion and automation tooling, and is built using and modern techniques through the use of custom tools and pipelines.
We are looking for individuals who will challenge ideas in a respectful manner in the pursuit of a better outcome. You should be passionate and take pride in your work with the ability to use initiative to make sure tasks are progressed and workload is prioritised accordingly
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, efficient, and fault-tolerant data products using predominantly Azure and Snowflake technology
- Work closely with the rest of the members of the Data team to identify, refine and build solutions to enhance the data analytics platform for our customers
- Continually contribute to the codebase and aid other engineers within the team by reviewing and advising/sharing best-practices
- Run spikes and POCs for new technical innovation when required and share back to the group
- Ensure the platform remains secure, well-monitored and performant
- Engage with stakeholders to understand requirements
- Play a key role in Agile ceremonies with input into backlog refinement and estimations, as well as ownership of the tech-debt backlog
Mandatory Skills, Knowledge or Experience
- At least 3 years of experience in data engineering in a fast-paced, large-scale production environment
- Demonstrable expert skills in SQL, including a knowledge of efficient and performant query design
- Experience of programming/scripting languages (e.g.C# / PowerShell / Python / JavaScript)
- Experience building production systems utilising cloud systems, with particular value in expertise with Microsoft Azure.
- Uses coding best practices and understands data architecture patterns
- Deep understanding/experience of data warehousing, and ETL/ELT processes
- Familiar with utilizing CI/CD processes(e.g.Azure DevOps) and Git-based code repositories
- Work in an Agile development environment
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
Desirable skills
- Experience of data modelling
- Experience of Snowflake cloud data warehouse including SnowSQL
- Experience defining, implementing or supporting software in financial services industry
- Cloud certification in Azure is particularly desirable
- Knowledge of data quality, data governance, and data security principles and practices
- Experience of Mend/SonarQube
Transferable Skills, Knowledge or Experience
Skills may be transferable from a role which includes software development.
Integrity and Ethics
All StarCompliance employees are expected to commit to a high standard of personal integrity and carry out their responsibilities in an ethical manner.
Top Skills
What We Do
StarCompliance is the world's leading provider of compliance software to the global financial industry. Our clients include asset managers, broker-dealers, private equity firms, insurance providers, investment banks, and diversified financial institutions. Our scalable, easy-to-use solutions provide a 360-degree view of employee and business activity to help firms monitor and reduce risk, meet regulatory obligations, gain efficiencies, and drive employee adoption.
Our Employee Conflicts of Interest suite provides clients a single place for monitoring and mitigating potential employee conflicts, covering: personal trading activity; insider trading; private investments, gifts and entertainment spending; outside business activities; and political donations. The STAR Mobile app supports personal trading pre-clearance requests and gifts and entertainment spending submissions, and allows compliance officers and employee supervisors to review and approve those requests and submissions on-the-go. Compliance Control Room centralizes all firm deal-related activity—automatically surfacing critical data that might otherwise be missed—and allowing for easier conflict searches, so deals can be cleared faster and with greater confidence.
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