Senior data Engineer Anti Fraud Job at Manchester, Lancashire Full Time

Manchester OR London

Contract

Purpose

Technology, at the forefront of cybersecurity. Vanguard manages over $11 trillion in assets across the globe. Our Enterprise Security & Fraud (ES&F) team aims to innovate using cutting edge technology to prevent fraud and financial crime on our investment platform.

In this role you will

• Be creative with solutions for business needs, it’s important that we consider our options outside of what is already being done. We want to build resilient, future-proof novel solutions.
• Aid with the design and implement of pipelines for real-time analysis and critical decision making for operational systems.
• Build ELT pipelines, from source to presentation of data to our internal customers.
• Write high quality, testable and readable code, assist with code reviews, provide solution design input, build automated tests, create documentation, and other tasks throughout the development lifecycle.
• Collaborate closely with junior and senior developers, scrum master, and product owner to ensure the data is enabling our client experience.
• Identify and help implement continuous improvement of technical standards, methodologies, technologies, and processes.
• Own the deployment and operations of the system across environments from development, test, and through to production.
• Participate in agile meetings aligned to the scrum framework: sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint review, sprint retrospective.

Qualifications we’re looking for

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, STEM or related discipline is a plus, but not strictly required.
• Experience as a data engineer.
• Strong experience with Python and SQL is required as well as a solid understanding of working in a cloud-based environment (AWS is preferred).
• Proficient using transformation tools such as PySpark/Pandas.
• Knowledge and practice of graph databases is preferred but not required.

Key responsibilities / Skills and experience

• Familiarity using data quality frameworks, i.e. Great Expectations.
• Experience building cloud infrastructure using IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform).
• Demonstrable understanding of industry standards and best practices as it relates to development methodology such as testing, code quality and consistency.
• Great communication skills: the ability to bridge the gap between the technical and non-technical across various communication channels.
• An understanding of agile software development methodology, with scrum framework experience preferred.
• A desire to continuously learn and develop yourself in both technical and non-technical skillsets.

Working at Vanguard

We offer an attractive base salary, annual performance bonus (paid in January), partnership bonus (paid in June), and competitive benefits. Our hybrid working model includes office days on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with remote work on Monday and Friday.

Inclusion Statement

Vanguard’s continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.” We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values. When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard’s core purpose: to take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.