Associate Data Engineer
TransUnion
About the Role
The Specialized Risk Group at TransUnion provides our customers with consumer information used across multiple industries. As a member of the data engineering team, you will be responsible for improving the quality, accuracy, and delivery of our core product. You will build complex algorithms and provide elegant solutions to solve our customer’s needs. This is a hybrid position.
Key Responsibilities
- Improving the quality, accuracy, and delivery of core products.
- Building complex algorithms.
- Providing elegant solutions to solve customer needs.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Big Data Platforms: Experience with Hadoop, MongoDB, Cassandra, HPCC, Cloud Bigtable, and/or NoSQL approaches (key-values, document, or tabular stores).
- Scripting Languages: Experience with Linux, Bash scripting, and/or PERL.
- Programming Languages: Experience utilizing Python, C++/C, PySpark, PyDoop, and/or PyScala.
Qualifications
- Experience: 0-1 years of work experience with data ingestion, data analysis, data integration, and data design.
- Collaboration: Collaboration and innovative approach to understanding customer needs; ability to coordinate work responsibilities with other core technology teams; willingness to learn new techniques and technologies.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Physics, or a related discipline.
- In the first 90 days: Learn the big data environment, demonstrate basic knowledge of the platform, be productive, and contribute to team discussions.
- Beyond 90 days: Expand knowledge of the big data environment, provide innovative solutions to complex algorithms, and show expertise in entity linking algorithms.






