Senior Developer, Data Eng

Ally Financial

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Detroit, MI
Salary
$85,000–$150,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
6 days ago
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Below market

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About Ally Financial

Ally Financial is a US-based digital financial services company offering online banking, auto financing, mortgage, and investment products. It is one of the largest all-digital banks in the United States.

Ally Financial currently has 28 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $110,000–$180,000 across 27 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Developer, Data Eng

JOB TITLE: Sr Developer - Data Eng The Sr Developer - Data Eng joins the engineering team to design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and platforms supporting analytics, reporting, and AI/ML use cases. This role involves developing end-to-end batch and near real-time pipelines, building data models like dimensional modeling or data vaults, and migrating legacy workloads. Key responsibilities include performing performance tuning, cost optimization, and ensuring data quality and governance. The candidate will utilize Snowflake, AWS services including S3 and Lambda, Python for ETL/ELT development, and SQL for complex transformations. Experience with Control-M for job scheduling, Git for version control, and IBM DataStage is required or preferred. The work focuses on enabling data products and AI-ready datasets within an Agile delivery model to solve complex enterprise data challenges.

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end batch and near real-time data pipelines using Snowflake, AWS, and Python.
  • Build and optimize data models in Snowflake, including dimensional modeling and curated data marts.
  • Develop and maintain ETL/ELT workflows using Python and IBM DataStage while migrating legacy workloads.
  • Implement job scheduling, monitoring, and operational support using Control-M for alerting and dependency management.
  • Ensure data quality, governance, lineage, and documentation standards are met across all pipelines.
  • Perform performance tuning and cost optimization for Snowflake and AWS resources.
  • Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and drive preventative improvements.
  • Partner with stakeholders to enable data products and AI-ready datasets for Data Science and BI teams.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
  • 9+ years of data engineering experience, including enterprise-grade data platform delivery and production support.
  • 3+ years of experience in a data engineering capacity.
  • Strong expertise in Snowflake architecture, SQL development, performance tuning, security, and data loading.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS data ecosystem services such as S3, IAM, Glue, Lambda, and EMR.
  • Strong Python programming skills for ETL/ELT frameworks, API ingestion, automation, and unit testing.
  • Experience designing and managing enterprise job scheduling, dependencies, and SLAs using Control-M.
  • Experience with Git and CI/CD practices for data pipelines (preferred).
  • Experience with IBM DataStage for building and maintaining jobs (preferred).
  • Experience enabling AI/ML pipelines or familiarity with MLOps tools (preferred).

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