Data Engineer (Acuant/GBG Americas) (3194)

About GBG

With a rich heritage of more than 30 years, offices in 16 locations worldwide, and more than 1,000 team members globally, GBG proudly stands as the global technology specialist in fraud, location, and identity data intelligence. We support businesses and enable customer growth by protecting companies and governments to combat fraud and cybercrime, lower the cost of compliance, and improve customer digital onboarding experience in today’s digital economy.

About Acuant/GBG Americas (a GBG company)

Acuant is a fast-growing, leading provider of identity verification technology. Our Trusted Identity Platform enables businesses worldwide to fight fraud while effectively addressing evolving security concerns in our increasingly digital economy.

Powered by proprietary technology, our platform provides the leading homegrown, end-to-end identity platform that was purposefully built to cover the complete customer journey. With AI-powered identity verification, AML/KYC regulatory compliance, real time transaction monitoring and re-use of trusted identities, we are positioned to serve and support all major verticals globally.

Acuant’s journey is one of determination, growth, and success. Within five years, Acuant-led three successful acquisitions and recently, Acuant was acquired by industry leader GBG, making Acuant a GBG company. With the support of our parent company, Acuant’s continued development and global expansion goals are imminent. We are excited to embark on this next chapter and invite you to join us as we grow stronger together.

The Role

We're looking for a Data Engineer to join Acuant. The ideal candidate will have a passion for working with cloud technologies to build and maintain robust data infrastructure. As the business generates more and more data every day, you will be presented with a variety of big data problems that require the best of data engineering practices and designs.

You have good interpersonal skills which you will employ regularly, including being a methodical, self-motivated individual, capable of keeping your eye on the finish line amidst competing priorities.

What you will do

You will pursue a variety of challenges, including:

• Develop data pipelines to enable a variety of big data workloads, including machine learning, tracking product KPIs, general business intelligence, and data visualizations
• Model data and select the appropriate storage and retrieval technologies
• Build system to orchestrate ETL jobs
• Maintain data infrastructure and monitor performance and errors

Requirements

• Experience building big data systems
• Advanced Python, SQL, Pandas
• Practical experience with AWS technologies (S3, Athena, SQS, Kinesis, Lambda)
• Relevant degree in data science, statistics, natural science, mathematics, computer science, or another related field
• (Desirable) Domain knowledge in computer vision, fraud detection, and anti money laundering (AML)

Behaviors

• Excellent communication skills
• Team oriented and collaborative

Benefits

We have the vision to have the best and most engaged team members in the industry. People matter at GBG, they make us who we are. Every team member across all our locations makes a difference, everyone has something to contribute. Maybe you too could make a difference.

As part of our commitment to our team and flexible working approach, we have created a Work When and Where You Want Policy to give our team members choice and empowerment and to support a balance in work and home life. Please ask your Talent Attraction Specialist for more information on this and our Family Friendly policy if you want to find out more!

Next steps

If you’re interested, please apply! We’re looking to hire the best and most engaged people into our business, and we’ll make an offer once we’ve found that person.

If you are hired, we will require you to attest to your COVID-19 vaccination status.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing fair opportunities for everyone regardless of age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, parental status or disability. Everybody is welcome and our inclusion and diversity program, be/yourself, is designed to ensure that you can thrive. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Specialist if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process.