Vice President, Senior Data Engineer

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network. The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $158,746.00 and $180,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.

Role Objectives

• Architect, develop, and deploy advanced cloud-native data solutions for risk management, regulatory compliance, financial reporting, and governance frameworks, utilizing cloud computing platforms including Microsoft Azure, Gen 2, and Databricks.

• Lead on-premises to cloud migration initiatives, ensuring seamless system modernization.

• Collaborate with business analysts, product managers, and stakeholders to elicit and analyze complex business requirements and identify operational inefficiencies to drive application design and implementation.

• Engage with IT architects, database administrators, and cybersecurity teams to design robust back-end infrastructures that meet stringent security, scalability, and performance requirements.

• Coordinate with other technology and development teams to ensure cohesive integration of cloud applications within the enterprise's broader software ecosystem.

• Participate in regular agile development meetings to align on project priorities, distribute development tasks, and facilitate knowledge sharing around technical challenges and application lifecycle management.

• Hybrid remote work permitted.

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, information systems or a related field plus 7 years of progressively responsible experience.

• Required Skills: cloud data engineering; large scale data pipeline development using PySpark, SQL, and Distributed Data Processing Frameworks; advanced SQL and relational database expertise (including Databricks); ETL/ELT design using ADF, Databricks, SQL, DataStage, and Data Quality/Governance Frameworks; technical leadership.

The required skill set does not need to be maintained over the full term of the required experience.

The role is eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.

For benefit information, please see the Careers page

SMBC’s employees participate in a Hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home, as well as, from an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location. Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process. Hybrid work may not be permitted for certain roles, including, for example, certain FINRA-registered roles for which in-office attendance for the entire workweek is required.

SMBC provides reasonable accommodations during candidacy for applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please let us know at [email protected].

EOE, including Disability/veterans