Data Engineer

Farm Credit of Southern Colorado (FCSC) is seeking a Data Engineer to join our team. The chosen candidate will build and optimize the association’s data and data pipeline architecture. This includes data flow and collection, ensuring consistent architecture throughout. The incumbent’s work is varied, supporting multiple teams, systems, and projects. Staying up-to-date with data engineering tools and technologies, including cloud-based data services, is essential for this position. This position is full time, working approximately 40 hours a week, and benefits eligible.

Organizational Information

At Farm Credit of Southern Colorado, we believe in creating a culture where teammates enjoy coming to work and feel included. We live this every day by enacting our FIRST principles, Fun , Integrity , Respect , Service , and Trust . Our commitment to our employees has earned Farm Credit of Southern Colorado recognition by the Colorado Springs Gazette a Best Place to Work for the past 3 years. Come join us in Colorado Springs, ranked No. 3 in US News & World Report’s 2023-2024 Best Place to Live survey!

As one of the Farm Credit System’s associations, Farm Credit of Southern Colorado is a robust organization serving its member/owners in 31 counties throughout Southern Colorado. With over $1.6 billion in assets, Farm Credit of Southern Colorado’s approximately 100 staff members bring strength to its shareholders and communities. Farm Credit of Southern Colorado is a member-owned cooperative that provides a wide range of financial products and risk management services for agricultural producers, agribusinesses, land owners and rural homeowners.

Today, the Farm Credit System is one of the strongest, most financially sound lending institutions in the U.S. Its 59 institutions serve our country’s farmers and ranchers, rural America, and agribusiness.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Data Storage

• Designs, optimizes, and maintains databases for efficient data storage and retrieval.
• Manages data warehouses or data lakes to ensure accessibility and reliability of data.
• Develops and maintains data models and schemas that support analytics and reporting.
• Manages our Snowflake instance to provide business and regulatory report on our portfolio and ancillary services from initial contact to post loan closure.

Data Architecture

• Builds and maintains data pipelines to move, transform, and load data from various sources to a centralized repository.
• Optimizes data infrastructure and pipelines for speed, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Designs, publishes, documents, monitors, secures, and analyzes Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). 
• Creates ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to clean, transform, and prepare data for analysis

Data Quality

• Ensures data completeness, integrity, and security through validation, monitoring, and governance practices.
• Normalization of data to eliminate duplications and ensure single source of truth.

Data Collaboration

• Works closely with stakeholders to understand data needs and provide access to relevant data.
• Creates documentation and provides support to help others understand and use the data infrastructure effectively.

Data Security and Confidentiality

• Appropriately protects the confidentiality, security, and integrity of the Association, employees, borrowers, and other stakeholders.

QUALIFYING CHARACTERISTICS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field.
• 5 years of related experience as a Data Engineer or similar role or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job
• 2 years’ experience working within Snowflake required
• Technical expertise with data pipelines, API management, data models, and data warehouses
• Working knowledge of programming languages (e.g. Java and Python)
• Hands-on experience with SQL database design
• Demonstrated analytical skills
• Demonstrated skill in interacting and collaborating with others
• Skill in oral and written communication, sufficient to discuss a variety of job-related topics, and to effectively communicate complex topics to a variety of audiences
• Skill in utilizing a systematic approach to problem solving
• Skill in researching information to gain knowledge to apply to business challenges
• Skill in performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature
• Skill in advising and guiding individuals to achieve results

Farm Credit of Southern Colorado is an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to diversity in the workplace and offers a great work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

The following information is disclosed in compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. Similar positions applied for outside of Colorado will not necessarily receive the same compensation.

Salary Range: $110,000 to $160,000.

This range is a good-faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of this posting. Actual salaries could vary and may be above or below the range as permitted by Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Rule 4.1.2. Variation is based on various factors including but not limited to location, qualifications, experience, operational needs and other considerations permitted by law. In compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, a potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions. In addition, benefits for this position include medical, dental, vision and life insurance, 401k, tax advantage accounts, paid vacation, sick leave and parental leave. 

FINAL DATE FOR APPLICATION: Until Filled