Job Description:

What we do:
We believe in protecting America’s 90 million investors. That’s our job. Because if people don’t trust in the markets, they won’t invest in the markets. We believe in thinking big. We oversee every brokerage firm and broker doing business with the U.S. public. That’s more than 3,900 firms and approximately 635,000 brokers. We oversee up to 75 billion market transactions per day. We believe in being aggressively vigilant. If brokers break the rules, we have the power to fine them, suspend them or bar them from the industry. We have the flexibility to innovate and invest in technology. We believe in a boots-on-the-ground approach. We work in communities across the country.

Who we are looking for:
FINRA is looking for a Data science Platform Engineer with developer mindset and AWS (Amazon Web Services) experience.

Essential Job Functions:

• The Platform Engineer will provide system analysis expertise for assigned product(s) in order to ensure that the product meets the needs of the business community it serves. 


• Serve as a subject matter expert for one or more systems.


• Recommends and leads implementation of enhancements and updates to the platforms.


• Champion the collaborative resolution of system related issues/defects. Work across the organization to develop solutions that meet business requirements.


• Facilitate the flow of information between stakeholders to ensure a common understanding of needs and deliverables.


• Facilitate the solution selection/decision making process and provide the necessary information to enable the business unit to make an informed decision.


• Support end-user feedback activities, such as, user acceptance testing and demonstration.

Education/Experience Requirements:

• More than 8 years’ experience in Systems engineering and Software development


• Strong experience in AWS services – EKS, Lambda, EBS, EC2, S3, Fargate, IAM, Network and Security


• Strong background in Linux/Unix environments


• Solid experience with Python and Java


• Solid experience in tuning and scaling spark on EKS


• Solid experience in Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker and Spark


• Familiar with Data science lifecycle stages 


• Familiar with API and Front-end development for web applications (J2EE, AngularJS, etc.) and Web servers (Apache httpd, Tomcat, Nginx)


• Experience with SQL and Spark 


• Preferred skills – Managing Enterprise data science platforms using Open source or vendor products like MLFlow, Dataiku, etc. 


• Demonstrated ability to implement a wide variety of open-source technologies and cloud services


• Prior developer experience/personal projects are highly desired


• Good troubleshooting and debugging mindset. Be able to provide immediate workarounds and long-term fix.


• Continually look for ways to innovate and improve testing process to gain efficiencies


• Serve as a subject matter expert for the Data science platform


• Recommends and leads implementation of enhancements and updates to the Platform


• Effectively communicate with users and project stakeholders in oral and written formats


• Be able to work independently and a self-learner


• AWS and ML certifications are plus

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To be considered for this position, please submit an application.

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Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. FINRA also provides a variety of benefits including comprehensive health and welfare benefits, life and disability insurance, paid holidays, vacation, personal, and sick leave. FINRA offers immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match. You will also be eligible for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution, our tuition reimbursement program and many other benefits. If you would like to contribute to our important mission and work collegially in a professional organization that values intelligence, integrity and initiative, consider a career with FINRA.

Important Information

FINRA’s Code of Conduct imposes restrictions on employees’ investments and requires financial disclosures that are uniquely related to our role as a securities regulator. FINRA employees are required to disclose to FINRA all brokerage accounts that they maintain, and those in which they control trading or have a financial interest (including any trust account of which they are a trustee or beneficiary and all accounts of a spouse, domestic partner or minor child who lives with the employee) and to authorize their broker-dealers to provide FINRA with duplicate statements for all of those accounts. All of those accounts are subject to the Code’s investment and securities account restrictions, and new employees must comply with those investment restrictions—including disposing of any security issued by a company on FINRA’s Prohibited Company List or obtaining a written waiver from their Executive Vice President—by the date they begin employment with FINRA. Employees may only maintain securities accounts that must be disclosed to FINRA at one or more securities firms that provide an electronic feed (e-feed) of data to FINRA, and must move securities accounts from other securities firms to a firm that provides an e-feed within three months of beginning employment.

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