Python/PySpark Engineer

Job Title – Python/PySpark Engineer
Location – Salt Lake City, UT (3 days office mandatory)
Duration – 6+ Months
 
Job Description:
Looking for an experienced PySpark Data Engineer to support banking data platforms, regulatory reporting, and large-scale transaction processing systems. The role involves building scalable data pipelines, ensuring data integrity, and enabling analytics across financial systems.
 
Must-Have Skills:

• Strong expertise in Python + PySpark (RDD, DataFrames, Spark SQL)
• Solid experience in banking/financial domain data (transactions, accounts, payments, risk)
• Strong hands-on in SQL and data warehousing concepts
• Experience with ETL pipelines & data pipeline architecture 
• Knowledge of big data ecosystem (Spark, Hive, Hadoop, Kafka)
• Experience in cloud platforms (AWS / Azure)
• Hands-on with Databricks / Spark clusters
• Understanding of data governance, audit, lineage, and compliance

 
Good-to-Have Skills:

• Experience in Regulatory Reporting / Risk / AML / Fraud Analytics
• Knowledge of Delta Lake / Lakehouse architecture
• Exposure to Airflow / orchestration tools
• CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Understanding of streaming data (Kafka / Spark Streaming)

 
Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop high-performance data pipelines using PySpark & Spark SQL for BFS use cases
• Process large-scale transactional, customer, and risk data across distributed systems
• Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines for regulatory, reporting, and analytics requirements
• Integrate data from multiple BFS systems (Core Banking, Payments, Risk, AML, etc.)
• Implement data quality checks, reconciliation, and audit controls
• Optimize Spark workloads (partitioning, joins, caching, performance tuning)
• Work with data lakes/lakehouse (Delta Lake, S3, ADLS) for governed data storage
• Ensure compliance with data governance, security, and regulatory standards (e.g., BCBS, GDPR, SOX)
• Collaborate with business analysts, risk teams, and downstream reporting teams

 

At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position's starting pay is: $40.00/hr.