Job Description
Our client, a IT Services and Consulting company, is looking for a Data Engineer / Data Platform Engineer (Python, PySpark) for their Charlotte, NC location.
Responsibilities:
Requirements:
Why Should You Apply?
Responsibilities:
- Financial Crimes Technology team is evolving toward more in-house build capabilities and reducing dependency on legacy vendor/tooling approaches.
- This role will support data engineering and platform development for financial crimes use cases (AML, investigations, sanctions, fraud, KYC) by building scalable pipelines, improving data quality, and enabling analytics/reporting and downstream applications.
- Build and maintain batch and/or streaming data pipelines supporting financial crimes initiatives.
- Develop data transformations using Python + PySpark and optimize performance for large datasets.
- Apply strong understanding of Apache Spark architecture (executors, partitions, shuffles, joins, caching) to improve performance
- Partner with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into data models, mappings, and curated datasets.
- Support ingestion from multiple sources (transactional systems, case management, reference data, etc.).
- Implement data quality checks, reconciliation, and controls to ensure auditability and reliability.
- Contribute to modernization efforts (legacy → in-house build) including migration planning and redesign.
- Create documentation for pipelines, logic, and operational runbooks.
- Work within Agile delivery (Jira), supporting sprint execution and delivery timelines.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering / ETL / data platform development
- Experience working with large-scale data sets and performance tuning.
- Strong understanding of data concepts: data modeling, lineage, metadata, governance
- Experience supporting regulated environments with emphasis on controls and audit readiness
- Strong communication skills (ability to work with both engineering + business partners
- Experience running PySpark workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Dataproc, BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage (GCS), etc.
- Experience with cloud native Big Data platforms
- Knowledge of data governance, security, and compliance practices
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines for data engineering workloads
- Orchestration: Airflow (or similar scheduling tools)
- Streaming: Kafka
- Lakehouse/Warehouse: Databricks / Snowflake / BigQuery
- CI/CD + DevOps: Git, pipelines, automation, release management
- Data governance/security: encryption, access controls, data masking, PII handling
- Prior Financial Crimes domain: AML / sanctions / fraud / investigations / KYC
- Experience supporting AML, Transaction Monitoring, Investigations, Sanctions screening, Fraud, or similar risk/compliance functions.
- Familiarity with regulatory expectations and strong documentation discipline
- Years of experience:
- 9.00 Years of Experience
- Strong hands-on development in:
- Python
- PySpark / Apache Spark
- Advanced SQL
Why Should You Apply?
- Health Benefits
- Referral Program
- Excellent growth and advancement opportunities
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Charlotte, NC |
| Industry | Management Consulting Services |
| Salary | $53.57 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 2,000 to 2,499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2000 |
| Website | https://www.iconma.com/ |
Benefits
401K, Employee Referral Program, Life Insurance
About Company
ICONMA is a global information consulting management firm providing Professional Staffing Services and Project-Based Solutions for organizations in a broad range of industries.
- Corporate Headquarters in Troy, Michigan; 20+ locations worldwide.
- Certified Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE); certified by Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, National Women Business Owners Corporation (NWBOC); and California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
- Founded in 2000
- 2000+ Employees
The company was founded on the principle that success is derived from delivering high quality service and resources in the most responsive, flexible, and innovative way. ICONMA invests in people and resources with a single goal: To provide our customers with the highest quality service in the most responsive manner. Through its network of offices, ICONMA provides the resources to help clients maintain their competitive advantage.
Skills
- Access Controlunmatched
- Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
- Apache Sparkunmatched
- Atlassian JIRAunmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Big Dataunmatched
- Cachingunmatched
- Case Managementunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Cloud Storageunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
- Continuous Integrationunmatched
- Cryptographyunmatched
- Data Managementunmatched
- Data Modelingunmatched
- Data Qualityunmatched
- Data Setsunmatched
- Database Extract Transform and Load (ETL)unmatched
- DevOpsunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Fraud Investigationunmatched
- GCP (Good Clinical Practices)unmatched
- Gitunmatched
- Health Planunmatched
- Information Technology Consultingunmatched
- Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
- Know Your Customer (KYC)unmatched
- Machine Toolunmatched
- Metadataunmatched
- Money Launderingunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- Quality Managementunmatched
- Reconciliationunmatched
- Regulationsunmatched
- Release Management/Engineeringunmatched
- Requirements Managementunmatched
- Riskunmatched
- SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
- Scalable System Developmentunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- System Migrationunmatched
- Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
- Training Data Setsunmatched
- Transaction Processing/Managementunmatched
- Use Casesunmatched
- Warehousingunmatched
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