The Data Engineer on PNC's Big Data Platform focuses on building and optimizing cloud-native data solutions, ensuring health and performance, and enabling analytics across the organization. This onsite role is based in Birmingham, Alabama.
Responsibilities
- Monitor, maintain, and improve the health and performance of the data platform
- Ensure stability, reliability, and scalability of data systems
- Implement best practices for platform operations and data engineering standards, ensuring understanding and adherence across technical and business customers
- Conduct regular reviews of the data platform architecture to identify automation, optimization, right-sizing, and cost-reduction opportunities
- Drive user migration to a unified data platform
- Modernize legacy Hadoop-based systems to cloud-native architectures
- Design and build scalable, modern data platforms leveraging open‑source technologies such as Apache Iceberg, Airflow, and Trino
- Support a data lakehouse architecture for structured, transactional data availability
- Partner with business stakeholders to translate analytical needs into technical solutions
- Apply contemporary methodologies and tools to advance business initiatives
- Act as an internal consultant to internal customers on big data tools and capabilities
- Enhance and optimize query performance and data structures to support analytics
- Guide stakeholders in understanding how to leverage data for business insights
- Define and implement internal process improvements through detailed analytics that provide actionable insights into key business performance metrics
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in Python, Spark, and Scala
- Solid background and hands-on experience in SQL development and enterprise database systems (Oracle, Teradata, etc.)
- Experience with modern cloud-native and open-source tools is highly valued: Apache Iceberg, Apache Airflow, Trino
- Strong experience in modern data engineering and big data ecosystems / frameworks
- Hands-on experience building scalable data platforms and analytical solutions using data lakehouse architectures
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and their data-related services
- Proven ability to go beyond data movement and contribute to solution design
- Strong communication and presence — able to translate between technical and non-technical audiences
- Proven ability to bridge the gap between business and engineering teams
- Collaborative mindset with experience working across cross-functional teams
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
Technologies
- Python
- Spark
- Scala
- SQL
- Oracle
- Teradata
- Azure
- AWS
- Apache Iceberg
- Apache Airflow
- Trino
Job Details
- Location: Birmingham, AL (onsite)
- Minimum Experience: 3 years
- Education: Bachelor's degree
Job Description
- Develops, supports and implements data services for multiple applications to meet business objectives and user requirements. Uses technical knowledge and industry experience to design, build and maintain technology solutions.
- Works closely with users, developers, operations and business partners to define data service requirements and the data preparation process development.
- Designs and builds data service infrastructure on multiple data platforms, according to key business processes and the overall workflow.
- Develops and implements data solutions for multiple applications to ensure its scalability, availability and maintainability.
- Implements data migration and transformation activities/processes to ensure the accuracy and security of data solutions.
Pay Transparency
Base Salary: $86,250.00 – $172,500.00. Salaries may vary based on geographic location, market data and on individual skills, experience, and education. This role is incentive eligible with the payment based upon company, business and/or individual performance.
Disability Accommodations
If an accommodation is required to participate in the application process, please contact us via email at AccommodationRequest@pnc.com. Please include “accommodation request” in the subject line title and be sure to include your name, the job ID, and your preferred method of contact in the body of the email. Emails not related to accommodation requests will not receive responses. Applicants may also call 877-968-7762 and say "Workday" for accommodation assistance. At PNC we foster an inclusive and accessible workplace. We provide reasonable accommodations to employment applicants and qualified individuals with a disability who need an accommodation to perform the essential functions of their positions.
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