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# Principal Data Engineer

- **Company:** Fmr LLC
- **Location:** Westlake, TX, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Cloud Computing, Cloud Database, Cloud Engineering, Data Integration, Data Integrity, Data Migration, Data Systems, Relational Databases, Database Development, DevOps, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Enterprise Messaging Systems, OAuth, Scrum Methodology, Query Optimization, Role-Based Access Control, DataOps, SQL Stored Procedures, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Working Model 2D, Data Logging, Cloud Platform System, Data Ingestion, System Availability, Database Optimization, Change Data Capture, Real Time Data, Apache Kafka, Data Pipelines, Jenkins
- **Published:** October 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=da25d165721e7c3c

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
 * 10 plus years of experience in designing and implementing full stack end-to-end customer-facing applications, financial industry experience a plus.
 * 7 plus years of experience working in complex architectural designs and technology initiatives.
 * 5 plus years of experience working in agile development environment (Scrum/Kanban).
 * Experience Handling INC management / Problem Management of Tier 0 platforms and driving 24x7 operational excellence
 * Understanding of modern authorization architectures, including RBAC, ReBAC, JWT-based authorization, and OAuth 2.0.
 * Strong experience with cloud-native and distributed database platforms, including designing, developing, and managing database objects such as tables, views, indexes, stored procedures, and data pipelines, while optimizing performance through query tuning, indexing strategies, and performance analysis.
 * Proficient in database development and data engineering best practices, including data modeling, SQL programming, stored procedure development, and implementation of scalable, high-performance data solutions across cloud environments.
 * Experience with Change Data Capture (CDC) technologies and patterns, enabling real-time data movement and synchronization between source systems, cloud databases, and downstream consumers.
 * Hands-on experience integrating cloud databases with event-streaming and messaging platforms such as Kafka, ensuring reliable, scalable, and fault-tolerant data flows across distributed systems.
 * Knowledge of modern data migration and modernization strategies, including transitioning workloads from traditional relational databases to cloud-based data platforms while maintaining data integrity, performance, and operational resilience.
 * Experience building and supporting real-time and near real-time data ingestion pipelines, leveraging CDC, streaming, and automated data integration frameworks within cloud-native architectures.
 * Solid Understanding of DevOps CI/CD tools like Jenkins/ Jenkins Core.
 * Proven experience in maintaining scalability and resiliency in a complex environment.
 * In-depth understanding and experience with performance metrics, logging, monitoring, alerting, testing, and tuning for highly scalable cloud applications.
 * Proven experience in maintaining scalability and resiliency in a complex environment.
 * Demonstrated expertise in Production support, including incident management, root cause analysis, real-time monitoring, and high availability and reliability of critical systems in a fast-paced environment.
 * Ability to triage, execute root cause analysis, and be decisive under pressure.