Lead Data Quality Engineer (Maintenance)

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, Fedwire® Funds and Securities, the National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®1, FedACH®, Check Services, and the FedNow® Service. FRFS operates as a fully integrated organization with groups dedicated to operations, technology, product and industry engagement, enterprise services, and one focused on the ongoing growth and development of the FedNow instant payment service. Our strategy defines our future direction, seeking to offer a fully integrated product suite that provides speed, resilience, and choice in meeting the payments needs of financial institutions across the United States. Through our Enterprise structure, we strive to meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services with speed and agility, seek to provide a robust and unified customer experience, and work to create career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.

Important information

• Open to US Citizens, Green Card holders or Permanent Residents with at least 3 years of current residency
• This is a hybrid role and requires a minimum on-site requirement

About this Role       

    

The FRFS business line is seeking a highly experience Lead Data Quality Engineer to join our QE organization. In this role, you will collaborate closely with the Data Platform team to ensure the delivery of high-quality, reliable data pipelines. As the first hire for this position, you will have the unique opportunity to share and implement frameworks, tools and best practices for data quality

While your primary focus will be on data quality, being part of QE organization means you will also have chance to contribute to other exciting quality engineering initiatives in the future

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with leadership team to define and execute a data testing strategy and plan
• Design and implementing data validation framework
• Partner with architects and developers to review architecture for testability and data quality
• Provide coaching and technical guidance to junior data quality engineers
• Act as a primary advocate and subject matter expert in data quality and driving awareness across cross-functional teams
• Evaluate data testing tools and frameworks
• Define and enforce testing and automation standards, process and metrics
• Collect metrics to measure test progress and quality outcomes

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Data Science or related field or equivalent experience
• This role requires 5 or more years of years in test automation focused on data quality and building test automation framework
• Proficient in Python
• 3-5+ years of experience with a modern data stack (Object stores like S3, Spark, Airflow, Lakehouse architectures, real-time databases, Glue, Athena, Sagemaker, Jupyter Notebook)
• 3-5+ years of experience with automated test tools (Great Expectations, Lambda test, Selenium, Cucumber, PyTest, Cypress)
• Understanding of the automation strategies & techniques available for testing data, application, and CI/CD infrastructure
• Experience with data engineering including knowledge of Big Data ecosystem preferred
• Strong desire and motivation to take up the potential challenges and opportunities as part of this exciting large and complex program with system wide visibility
• Demonstrates mutual respect, embraces diversity, equity and inclusion, and acts with authenticity

Additional Information:

Location

• Hybrid, on-site requirement will be determined by hiring district.
• The selected candidate's job title and associated pay range will be determined by the employing district and will continue to be subject to the employing district's people policies and practices (i.e., remote/hybrid work posture, etc.)
• Eligible districts for Hire: Boston, MA- New York, NY- Philadelphia, PA- Cleveland, OH- Richmond, VA- Atlanta, GA- Chicago, IL- St. Louis, MO- Minneapolis, MN- Kansas City, MO- Dallas, TX- San Francisco, CA

Screening:

US Citizens or Green Card holders and Permanent Residents with at least 3 years of residency

This position has additional screening requirements due to the information accessed while performing the job

These additional screenings would be initiated at the time of offer acceptance and can take up to a couple of months to be completed

You can begin work before the screening is completed; however, continued employment is contingent on acceptable screening results

The areas screened may include education/employment verification, criminal history, credit history, and reference checks

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

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