Engineer - Application

Federated Hermes, Inc.

Engineer – Application (#9815)

Federated Hermes, Inc., a global leader in active, responsible investing, is seeking an Engineer to join our Enterprise Data Team within our Global Technology Organization based in our Warrendale, Pennsylvania office.

What You’ll Do

This position is a senior technical leadership position as a member of the Enterprise Data Team under the Global Technology Organization. In this role, you will be hands on technical lead, leading the design, development, implementation and optimization of data solutions on the Databricks platform. The position does not include direct HR management, but does require technical leadership, mentoring, supporting and leading the establishment of standards for all of the team’s data platform work.

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines on Databricks
• Provide architectural, design and technical guidance to more junior team members
• Drive best practices in data engineering across the team
• Design and build improvements to the existing metadata driven ingestion framework
• Use generative AI platforms and agents like Claude Enterprise to automate and improve data pipeline creation and maintenance
• Write clean, efficient and maintainable PySpark or SQL code for data pipelines
• Design robust data models for analytics and reporting
• Design and implement batch and streaming data workflows
• Monitor and optimize performance of Spark jobs and cluster usage
• Ensure compliance with data governance, security and data privacy standards

This position offers a hybrid schedule (in-office/remote) and is located in Federated Hermes’ Warrendale, Pennsylvania office (15086).

The Expertise We are Looking For

• Expert level hands-on data engineering with Databricks (Azure preferred), Pyspark, lakehouse and SQL
• Strong experience or working knowledge of data modeling, including knowledge of dimensional modeling and name value pair
• Strong working knowledge of medallion architecture
• Experience using or configuring Databricks features including Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables, and Delta Sharing
• Minimum of 5 years’ programming experience which includes a minimum of one year working with big data platform, experience in data engineering domain, Python, SQL, and cloud platforms
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field with relevant continuing education preferred
• Ability to elicit requirements and collaborate with senior team members as part of solution design
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control tools required
• Knowledge of data visualization tools and BI platforms preferred

Our Investment in You

We believe our employees are our most important asset! Therefore, we offer benefits programs designed to help you and your family thrive, training programs to advance your professional development and opportunities for you to give back to the community. Our offerings include:

• A competitive total compensation package, including bonus programs designed to recognize and incentivize our employees to do their best every day.
• Time off programs including paid vacation, parental leave and a volunteer day to help you stay healthy and connected to the things that are important.
• Opportunities to expand your professional network within the firm and the community through participation in programs such as the Women in Investing Employee Resource Business Group and the University Ambassador Program.

About Federated Hermes

At Federated Hermes, our goals are to help individuals invest and retire better, to help our clients achieve better risk-adjusted returns, and to contribute to the positive outcomes in the wider world. We pledge to always putting our clients first and to acting responsibly and transparently. Our commitment to active investment has enabled us to become a leading investment manager with $911.6 billion in assets under management; serving investors around the world.

We provide career opportunities that enable our employees to grow and meet their career aspirations while balancing the needs of their personal lives. We offer a collaborative environment that promotes doing things the right way and always with integrity, sharing ideas to drive positive change, and following through on our commitments. We are motivated by a higher purpose and always consider the impact of our work. We promote teamwork and foster a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where unique perspectives, ideas and experiences are recognized and appreciated for the contributions they bring.

For consideration, please visit our company website and reference job #9815.

For additional information, please visit FederatedHermes.com

Federated Hermes, Inc. offers a competitive salary and benefits package along with a professional environment.

Only those candidates in whom we have an interest will be contacted.

The firm does not sponsor employment visas.

EOE – Including Disability / Vets

Federated Hermes is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment to qualified individuals without regard to the following criteria: race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, mental or physical disability, age, familial or marital status, ancestry, military status, veteran status or genetic information as well as any other prohibited criteria under any local, state or federal law applicable to Federated Hermes. As part of the firm’s equal employment opportunity statement, Federated Hermes will also comply with applicable government contractor obligations, including ensuring veterans and qualified people with disabilities are considered for employment and promotional opportunities consistent with current federal, state and local laws and regulations. Federated Hermes will also make reasonable accommodations for the religious practices of beliefs of applicants and employees, as well as for mental health or physical disability needs.