Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Title:Data Engineer
Location: Hybrid/Charlotte, NC
Contract Duration: 12 Months
Summary:
SMBC is driving a large-scale digital transformation across its Americas Division, focusing on modernizing technology and building a data-driven ecosystem. The organization is seeking experienced Data Engineers to support the design and development of a strategic data platform for SMBC Capital Markets and Nikko Securities Group. This role involves working on Azure-based data solutions, contributing to enterprise data strategy, and building scalable, high-performance data systems in a hybrid work environment.
Responsibility:
- Participate in the Data Strategy team across SMBC Capital Markets and Nikko Securities, supporting broker-dealer and swap-dealer entities
- Design, develop, and enhance a strategic enterprise data platform on Azure Cloud
- Build and implement reference data systems for securities and pricing data, and expand into other data domains
- Collaborate closely with internal SMBC teams to align development with business and technical goals
- Follow internal development standards and best practices to support the overall data strategy roadmap
- Develop and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for data ingestion and transformation
- Integrate APIs and data services to support data accessibility and interoperability
- Contribute to DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, version control, and automation
- Ensure high data quality, performance, and reliability across systems
Experience:
- 5–10+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or similar role
- Strong expertise in Python / PySpark (Full Stack Development)
- Hands-on experience with Azure Cloud Services, including:
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure Data Lake Gen2
- Azure Databases
- Azure Data Fabric
- Azure Functions
- API Gateway Management
- Azure Databricks
- Strong SQL skills with experience in RDBMS and NoSQL databases
- Experience building APIs using FastAPI or similar Python frameworks
- Good understanding of ETL/ELT processes and data pipelines
- Familiarity with DevOps tools and CI/CD processes (Git, Jenkins, etc.)
- Experience in financial services, market data, or asset classes is a plus