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Lead Database Engineer
@Green Dot Corporation
[Hiring] Lead Database Engineer @Green Dot Corporation
Mar 28, 2025 - Green Dot Corporation is hiring a remote Lead Database Engineer. 💸 Salary: $98,400 to $150,300 per year. 📍Location: USA.
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Role Description
What does a Lead Database Engineer do at Green Dot? Green Dot’s Database Engineering team is responsible for developing transformative next-gen data platforms that enable faster, secure & efficient data solutions. Reporting to the Sr Manager of Database Engineering team, you will contribute to the overall engineering, design, and support of all database implementations leveraging Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, CosmosDB, AWS Redshift, Databricks, and several other data stores.
- Designing, modeling and optimizing OLTP related database technologies (RDBMS and NoSQL)
- Collaborating with Application Architects and DBAs to build performant applications (with tens of millions of active accounts transacting with more than 1000+ tps)
- Working on Data Warehouse solutions (leveraging AWS Redshift, Databricks and others) to build performant data movement pipelines across OLTP and OLAP
- Ensuring complete End-to-End coverage of data lifecycle
This is NOT a Data Warehouse (or BI/Analytics/ML&AI) focused lead role so please keep this in mind before applying.
As a Lead Database Engineer, you can look forward to:
- Design and development of various data models associated with Relational DBs (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or similar) and NoSQL DBs (Cassandra, Cosmos DB, Dynamo DB or similar)
- Ensuring database features and capabilities are incorporated into data model designs to optimize performance, resiliency, and scalability
- Working closely with other technology leaders to design and develop enterprise-wide data strategy for data modeling, data pipelines, and data integrations across various environments and technology stacks
- Developing performant data movement pipelines using real-time event data streams (Apache Kafka, Azure Event Hub, AWS Kinesis, Azure Databricks etc.)
- Designing and implementing performant cloud data warehouse platforms (Redshift, Azure Databricks, SQL DW, Snowflake, or similar)
- Delivering and presenting proofs of concept to key technology components to project stakeholders and internal technology leaders
- Developing the data architecture and governance models for systems of engagement
- Ensuring data architectural designs are consistent, maintainable, flexible, extensible and cost effective
- Ensuring data security and privacy standards are implemented including role based security, encryption, tokenization, and obfuscation
- Performing problem-solving of application issues and production errors, including high level critical production issues that require immediate attention
- Working with other technology leaders on setting database standards and best practices for designing and architecting cloud-based data and reporting applications
Qualifications
- Minimum 8 years of overall software development experience
- Minimum 6 years of hands-on experience in database engineering (RDBMS and NoSQL)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Computer Engineering or related field
- Experience with RDBMS (primarily MS SQL Server); proficiency with advanced SQL concepts (T-SQL, PL/SQL, etc.)
- Good understanding of SQL engine internals to help design and tune databases for optimal performance
- Development experience with NoSQL DBs (Cassandra, Cosmos DB, Dynamo DB or similar) and associated data modeling
- Experience in designing, developing, and deploying cloud-based solutions leveraging cloud provided platforms (Azure / AWS)
- Development experience with cloud-based data warehouse platforms (Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse, AWS Redshift, Snowflake, etc.)
- Knowledge of data structures and algorithms and excellent programming skills (.NET, C#, Python and/or Java)
- Demonstrated expertise in performance tuning in various DB environments with large volume and velocity of data
- Experience working in a Dev/Ops environment with tools such as Azure Dev Ops, Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services, Chef, Puppet or Terraform
- Experience in handling structured and semi-structured data forms like JSON/XML and normalization of data structures
- Understanding of OLTP and OLAP applications
Requirements
- Experience with ETL tools such as Informatica, ADF or SSIS is a plus
- Financial technology domain knowledge
Benefits
- The targeted base salary for this position is $98,400 to $150,300 per year
- The final compensation will be determined by a number of factors such as qualifications, expertise, and the candidate’s geographical location
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$98,400 to $150,300 per year
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Mar 28, 2025
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