The Senior Cloud Data Engineer (AWS) will design and implement AWS-native data pipelines to modernize the risk data platform, focusing on regulatory reporting and enterprise risk management. The role involves collaboration across teams to ensure integration, performance optimization, and applying domain expertise in Market Risk and XVA processing. This hybrid position requires 3 to 6 years of experience and familiarity with AWS data engineering tools and relational databases.
We are looking for a Senior Cloud Data Engineer (AWS) – Financial Risk Transformation. We’re modernizing our risk data platform to deliver trusted insights for regulatory reporting and enterprise risk management. As a Senior Cloud Data Engineer, you’ll architect and deliver AWS-native pipelines aligned to the Medallion Architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold). Typically works under the direction of a Lead Developer. Likely to involve working closely with business analysts to ensure requirements are clear and well understood, with other developers to ensure the approach and code can be integrated, and with the application software testers to support their testing plans and resolve bugs. This position follows our hybrid workstyle policy: Expected to be in a Raymond James office location a minimum of 10-12 days a month. Responsibilities and Skills Needed: Build batch & streaming pipelines using Glue, Glue Streaming, Lambda, S3, Athena, Iceberg. Enable CDC ingestion with Kafka topics and JDBC connectors. Optimize Iceberg tables and Athena queries for performance. Drive CI/CD automation with Azure DevOps. Collaborate with Risk, Compliance, and Governance teams. Apply domain expertise in Market Risk and XVA processing to ensure accurate and timely risk calculations. Work with relational databases like Oracle and MSSQL for upstream and downstream integration. Nice-to-have: Experience with AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, and Redshift for advanced analytics and AI-driven insights. Education: Bachelor’s in Computer and Information Science, Computer Engineering, or Data Science. Work Experience: 3 to 6 years. Travel: Less than 25%. Workstyle: Hybrid. At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view. We expect our associates at all levels to grow professionally and inspire others, work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes, make prompt, pragmatic choices with the client in mind, take ownership and accountability, and contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm. Raymond James honors and values the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all associates and is an equal opportunity employer making decisions based on merit and business needs.