The Compliance Engineering & Technology (CET) team at Block supports the detection and reporting of suspicious financial crimes activity across Cash App, Square, and Afterpay. The role aims to enable other compliance teams to make impactful business decisions by laying the foundation of large and unique datasets that span across multiple products, and to bring the organization into a new level of consistency by creating and evangelizing best practices and standards.
Requirements
- High proficiency in SQL
- Working experience with Python
- Databrick experience
- 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
Responsibilities
- Stay up to date on the latest data engineering best practices, decide which are most applicable for our use cases, and guide and teach the data engineering team the relevant tools.
- Create scalable patterns and solutions that help our team design, develop, and manage scalable ETL pipelines to unblock new product launches.
- Lead the creation and optimization of 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 the data engineering team’s 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.
Other
- A minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 10 years and a Master’s degree; or equivalent experience.
- Experience driving decisions for AI initiatives / agent building is a big plus
- We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process.
- Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location.
- The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions.
