Senior Data Engineer, Credit Reporting

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Turkey.

📋 Description

• Oversee ongoing operations related to credit bureau data furnishing, which includes data preparation, validation, submissions, handling bureau feedback, resolving exceptions, and conducting reconciliations.

• Create, maintain, and troubleshoot SQL transformations, Python scripts, and data pipelines that generate credit reporting data.

• Track discrepancies from account activities and source records through transformation processes to the final furnished outputs; determine root causes and implement sustainable solutions.

• Address escalations from Customer Service, clarify outcomes of account-data reporting according to established policies, and provide supporting evidence for dispute resolutions.

• Identify accounts impacted by reporting issues, apply corrections and controlled reprocessing, and confirm reporting results.

• Develop automated testing, reconciliation processes, monitoring systems, and alerts to identify incorrect, incomplete, duplicate, or unexpected reporting before submission.

• Collaborate with Engineering to address production-service or consumer-app defects by providing reproducible examples, analyzing affected accounts, and setting clear requirements; verify fixes through the reporting pipeline.

• Work alongside Compliance to convert approved reporting requirements into technical guidelines and escalate any ambiguous scenarios.

• Document reporting logic, data lineage, procedures, and resolutions to incidents.

• Engage in Wonderlic testing, participate in recruiter interviews, and undertake SQL/Python/debugging assessments, case studies, and behavioral interviews.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, data science, or a related quantitative field.

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in data engineering or software engineering, with hands-on responsibility for production data pipelines and operational workflows.

• Proficient SQL skills, including the ability to perform complex joins, account-level reconciliations, data profiling, and troubleshooting transformation logic.

• Strong skills in Python, encompassing the ability to read unfamiliar code, debug existing scripts, and implement maintainable fixes.

• Capability to independently explore ambiguous issues, prioritize ongoing operations and incidents, and see problems through to verified resolution.

• Experience with version control, code reviews, automated testing, monitoring, and safe deployment and reprocessing of data workflows.

• Excellent problem-solving abilities and experience in tracing data defects across systems and preventing their recurrence.

• Strong business acumen and communication skills; capable of articulating technical findings to Customer Service and Compliance and collaborating effectively with Engineering.

• Proficiency in English.

• Proven experience utilizing Claude or similar large language model tools is essential; comfortable using AI to improve productivity, research, and communication.

• Preferred experience includes credit reporting dispute workflows, e-OSCAR, Metro 2 format, dbt, Redshift, PostgreSQL, AWS, workflow scheduling/orchestration tools, and familiarity with consumer lending, servicing, payments, financial services, banking, fintech, or BNPL.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for career advancement.

• A dynamic, fast-paced, and high-growth work environment.

• The chance to work with cutting-edge technology.

• A unique, purpose-driven company culture.