Data Engineer

At Associated Bank we strive to create an inclusive culture where different perspectives are valued and recognized as strengths critical to our success. If you thrive in an environment where your growth and development are encouraged and supported, then Associated Bank may be the right place for you.

Associated Bank requires you to directly represent yourself and your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process. Associated Bank conducts a thorough background check on all new hires.

The Data Engineer will have a strong background in data engineering, with extensive experience in designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and architectures. As a Data Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping our data infrastructure, ensuring the availability, reliability, and performance of our data systems.
The Data Engineer will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable data solutions that enable reporting, analytics, and business insights across the enterprise. This role will work closely with business partners and technical teams to deliver reliable, high-quality data pipelines and models that support both operational and strategic decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Data Pipeline Development: Design, build, test, and deploy high-throughput, low-latency, and fault-tolerant data pipelines for both streaming and batch ingestion using modern programming languages, integration tools, messaging technologies, REST APIs, and ETL/ELT frameworks.
• Best Practices & Automation: Apply DataOps principles to enable automation, error handling, orchestration, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) of data pipelines.
• Architecture & Modeling: Develop and maintain optimal data pipeline architectures across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data sources in both on-premises and cloud environments. Design and build dimensional data models to support data warehouse and enterprise analytics initiatives.
• Optimization & Scalability: Identify, design, and implement process improvements such as automating manual workflows, improving data pipeline performance, and re-architecting infrastructure for scalability and efficiency.
• Collaboration: Partner with business stakeholders to gather requirements, translate them into technical solutions, and ensure production-ready, optimized, and scalable analytics environments.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field required. Equivalent experience considered.
• Master's degree preferred.

Experience & Skills

• 3 + years of experience in data engineering, with hands-on expertise in ETL/ELT patterns and building automated data pipelines (required).
• 1+ years of experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or Snowflake) and Python programming or advanced SQL coding and performance tuning (required).
• Strong understanding of relational, columnar, and NoSQL database architectures and best practices (preferred).
• Experience with dimensional data modeling and data warehouse design (preferred).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform (preferred).
• Experience with big data and streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka), parsing data formats (e.g., XML/JSON), and integrating external APIs (preferred).

In addition to core traditional benefits, we take pride in offering benefits for every stage of life.

• Retirement savings including both 401(k) and Pension plans.
• Paid time off to volunteer in your community.
• Opportunities to connect with others through our diversity-focused Colleague Resource Groups.
• Competitive salaries with professional development and advancement opportunities.
• Bonus benefits including well-being programs and incentives, parental leave, an employee stock purchase plan, military benefits and much more.
• Personal banking, loan, investment and insurance benefits.

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Compliance Statement

Associated Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. We support a work environment where colleagues are respected and given the opportunity to perform to their fullest potential. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, among other factors.

Fully complies with all applicable enterprise policies and procedures. Acts in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in training materials, including but not limited to Bank Secrecy Act. Responsible for reporting suspicious activity to Financial Intelligence. Responsible to report all customer complaints as prescribed and procedure violations to management or HR.

Responsible to report ethical concerns as needed to Associated Bank's anonymous Ethics Hotline.

Associated Bank provides additional assistance throughout the application, interview and hiring process. Please contact if you need an accommodation at any time during the process.

Associated Banc-Corp participates in the E-Verify Program. E-Verify Notice English or Spanish. Know Your Right to Work English or Spanish.

Associated Bank is Pay Transparency compliant.

The pay range represents anticipated base pay for this role. Actual pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, work location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications for the role.

$76,650.00 - $131,400.00 per year