dv01, a Fitch Solutions company, is lifting the curtain on the largest financial market in the world: structured finance. The $16+ trillion market is the backbone of everyday activities that empower financial freedom, from consolidating credit card debt and refinancing student loans, to buying a home and starting a small business.
dv01's data analytics platform brings unparalleled transparency into investment performance and risk for lenders and Wall Street investors in structured products. As a data-first company, we wrangle critical loan data and build modern analytical tools that enable strategic decision-making for responsible lending. In a nutshell, we're helping prevent a repeat of the 2008 global financial crisis by offering the data and tools required to make smarter, data-driven decisions resulting in a safer world for all of us.
More than 400 of the largest financial institutions use dv01 for our coverage of over 75 million loans spanning mortgages, personal loans, auto, buy-now-pay-later programs, small business, and student loans. dv01 continues to expand coverage of new markets, adding loans monthly, and developing new technologies for the structured products universe.
A Senior Data Engineer on the Data Transformation Platform team builds and maintains the data pipelines that turn billions of dollars of loan and bond data into the datasets behind the dv01 platform. The team owns the building blocks for the organization's data management needs and the architecture that keeps our data the single source of truth for the securitization markets we cover.
This is a hands-on senior role on a small, highly collaborative team, where your decisions shape how our users see risk and performance and your contributions have a visible and lasting effect on the business.
You will:- Design, build and maintain production data pipelines in Python, SQL and dbt on Google Cloud (BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Dataproc) and Databricks
- Own the architecture and data modeling of pipelines and schemas that scale
- Profile and optimize large data jobs for performance and cost
- Deliver roadmap projects end to end, from building new pipelines and migrating legacy ones to modernizing the platform they run on
- Keep production healthy: monitor and troubleshoot pipeline jobs, take part in the on-duty rotation, and fix root causes
- Review code, mentor engineers and analysts, and improve the team's tooling, including AI-assisted development with tools such as Claude Code
- Work with analysts, product and other engineering teams to turn data requirements into correct, maintainable transformations
You are:- An experienced data engineer, with 7+ years of experience building and operating production data pipelines and platforms on a major cloud provider, preferably Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform)
- A rigorous data modeler who designs data pipelines and schemas that other engineers can maintain and extend
- Fluent in Python and SQL, with hands-on experience in dbt and Spark; Scala or Java is a plus
- Proven at making large data jobs faster and cheaper
- Comfortable managing deployment and orchestration for complex production pipelines
- Hands-on with Databricks for pipelines and analytics, including workspace administration.
- Self-directed and capable of making a large impact with a small team. You are able to both work independently and collaborate deeply as needed, you proactively explore and evaluate new technologies.
- Curious about structured finance; financial knowledge is preferred but not required and can be learned on the job
BENEFITS & PERKS:- Paid Time Off. Vacation days, personal holidays and paid sick days on top of company holidays, so you can unplug and rejuvenate.
- 401(k) with Company Match. Build long-term savings with a company match on your contributions.
- Health Care. A comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance package for you and your family.
- Parental Leave and Family Support. 10 weeks of paid leave for all parents and 16 weeks for birthing parents, at 100% of salary. Fertility support up to a $25,000 lifetime maximum and backup childcare through Bright Horizons.
- Learning & Development. Support for professional qualifications and external study programs, including certifications, courses, master's programs and MBAs, plus the Fitch Management Academy, MentorPoint mentorship, and Hearst Academy technical training.
- Wellbeing. Wellhub gym and wellness memberships, free mental health support through Spring Health, and a confidential Employee Assistance Program.
- Everyday Support. A $250 annual home office allowance, pre-tax commuter benefits, and an employee referral program paying $2,500 to $10,000.
- Community and Purpose. Six active employee resource groups, 1:1 donation matching and paid volunteer hours, and company-funded service trips to build schools abroad.
In good faith our salary range for this role is $160,000 - $175,000 but are not tied to it. Final offer amount will be at the company's sole discretion and determined by multiple factors, including years and depth of experience, expertise, and other business considerations. Our community is fueled by diverse people who welcome differing points of view and the opportunity to learn from each other. Our team is passionate about building a product people love and a culture where everyone can innovate and thrive.
dv01, a Fitch Solutions company, is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants and employees will receive consideration for employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.
