Job Title – Python/PySpark Engineer Location – Salt Lake City, UT (3 days office mandatory) Duration – 6+ Months
Job Description: Looking for an experienced PySpark Data Engineer to support banking data platforms, regulatory reporting, and large-scale transaction processing systems. The role involves building scalable data pipelines, ensuring data integrity, and enabling analytics across financial systems.
Must-Have Skills:
Strong expertise in Python + PySpark (RDD, DataFrames, Spark SQL)
Solid experience in banking/financial domain data (transactions, accounts, payments, risk)
Strong hands-on in SQL and data warehousing concepts
Experience with ETL pipelines & data pipeline architecture
Knowledge of big data ecosystem (Spark, Hive, Hadoop, Kafka)
Experience in cloud platforms (AWS / Azure)
Hands-on with Databricks / Spark clusters
Understanding of data governance, audit, lineage, and compliance
Good-to-Have Skills:
Experience in Regulatory Reporting / Risk / AML / Fraud Analytics
Knowledge of Delta Lake / Lakehouse architecture
Exposure to Airflow / orchestration tools
CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
Understanding of streaming data (Kafka / Spark Streaming)
Key Responsibilities:
Design and develop high-performance data pipelines using PySpark & Spark SQL for BFS use cases
Process large-scale transactional, customer, and risk data across distributed systems
Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines for regulatory, reporting, and analytics requirements
Integrate data from multiple BFS systems (Core Banking, Payments, Risk, AML, etc.)
Implement data quality checks, reconciliation, and audit controls
Work with data lakes/lakehouse (Delta Lake, S3, ADLS) for governed data storage
Ensure compliance with data governance, security, and regulatory standards (e.g., BCBS, GDPR, SOX)
Collaborate with business analysts, risk teams, and downstream reporting teams
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 40.00/hr.
