The Compliance Engineering & Technology (CET) team at Block needs to detect and report suspicious financial crimes activity across Cash App, Square, and Afterpay, requiring robust data engineering to support these efforts and ensure a safe user experience.
Requirements
- High proficiency in SQL
- Working experience with Python, and Terraform
- Experience designing medium-to-large data engineering solutions and responsible for the entire lifecycle of projects including scoping, design, development, testing, deployment, and documentation
- Experience with ETL scheduling technologies with dependency checking, such as Airflow or Prefect, as well as schema design and dimensional data modeling
- Experience with setting up data quality and data lineage monitoring
- Experience with financial crimes compliance systems, technologies, and processes is a big plus
- Experience driving data-driven decisions for AI initiatives / agent building is a big plus
Responsibilities
- Work with engineering and product teams to design, develop, and manage scalable ETL pipelines to unblock new product launches.
- Create brand new and optimize existing data models and schemas on top of Block data including but not limited to eventing, customer level, and process level data.
- Build monitoring to assess the health of the team’s infrastructure as well as data quality and lineage.
- Participate in on-call rotation, monitor daily execution, diagnose and log issues, and fix business critical pipelines to ensure SLAs are met with internal stakeholders
- Work with non-technical partners and product teams to understand their needs, translate business requirements into applicable data requirements, and come up with automated end-to-end solutions.
- Standardize business and product metric definitions in curated and optimized datasets, and develop data dictionaries and other related documentation.
- Teach and encourage others to self-serve by building tools that make it simpler and faster for them to do so.
Other
- A minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or equivalent experience.
