Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. D.A. Davidson Companies is an independent, employee-owned company with a rich history spanning 90 years. This Senior Data Engineer will be a member of the Agile team responsible for D.A. Davidson’s flagship Client Access web and mobile applications, focusing on optimizing data integrations and architecture.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement and maintain a robust, efficient and compliant application data repository and integration architecture
- Work with Business and IT stakeholders to assist with data-related technical issues and provide application support
- Coordinate, direct and oversee the work of third-party engineers through solution design reviews, code reviews and process reviews
- Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements like, automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability
- Research and analyze new technologies, methodologies and architectures for viability
- Build and maintain a service-based architecture for web and mobile applications
- Work independently within a scrum delivery team, with oversight from domain and enterprise architects, in support of business-critical applications
- Contribute to the development of frameworks, guidelines, best practices and examples to ensure data structures and integration processes are accurate, compliant and secure
- Implement telemetry indicators to monitor performance, quality metrics to track accuracy and access controls to ensure compliance
Skills
- Commitment to maintain client confidentiality and data security
- Communicate in a clear and service-oriented manner; use appropriate, professional language and grammar to effectively exchange ideas and information
- Ability to proactively work with both external and internal clients; relate with others in a professional manner to accomplish work responsibilities and objectives
- Ability to maintain regular, predictable attendance
- 7 or more years of Data Engineering experience in an oversight capacity
- Extensive domain-specific experience in the Financial Services industry
- Experience with Microsoft cloud-based technologies in a hybrid architecture
- RDBMS expertise with Microsoft SQL Server (on prem and Azure SQL): advanced T SQL, query design, execution plans, index strategies (clustered/non clustered, filtered, included columns), partitioning, statistics, and concurrency/isolation level
- Data modeling mastery: 3NF normalization, strategic denormalization for read models, star/snowflake schemas, surrogate vs. natural keys, referential integrity, and temporal tables for auditing/history
- Experience performing operational analysis on internal and external data and processes to uncover failure points and identify opportunities for improvement
- Experience designing and implementing API-oriented schemas for web and mobile application performance and optimization
- Holistic awareness of processes supporting data preparation, metadata, dependencies, lineages, compliance and workload management
- Understanding of meta-model and metadata management requirements
- Security and governance experience: RBAC, least privilege, secrets management, PII handling, encryption at rest/in transit, row level security, auditing, and compliance (e.g., SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR)
- Extensive experience with Microsoft Fabric: pipelines, notebooks, Lakehouse/Warehouse concepts, and Medalion architecture
- Experience with Azure DevOps: CI/CD pipelines for AIS and Fabric assets
- ETL/ELT and data movement: SSIS/ADF/Azure Data Factory or modern pipelines (dbt, Airflow), CDC/change tracking, bulk load (BCP, BULK INSERT), and data quality checks Experience designing metadata-driven and reusable integration patterns
- Experience with API Management (APIM): API design, security (OAuth/JWT), policies, and versioning
- Experience in reverse-engineering, refactoring and migrating legacy applications
- Experience with Service Bus / Event Grid design patterns: asynchronous and event-driven integrations
- Experience with scripting languages such as: Python
- Experience with MDM concepts (golden record, survivorship, matching, data quality)
Benefits
- Medical, Dental and Vision
- Company 401(k)and ESOP contribution
- Generous sick, vacation, and maternity/parental leave
- Paid holidays
- Professional Development Opportunities
- Tuition Reimbursement ($15,000 lifetime cap)
- Discounted personal insurance including home, auto and recreational vehicles
- Charitable gift-matching program
- Davidson Day of Giving - Our tradition of positively impacting communities in which we live and work
Company Overview
At D.A. It was founded in 1935, and is headquartered in Great Falls, Montana, US, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://dadavidson.com.