Data Science Engineer

Key Skills

Apache Impala, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Design of Experiment, Effective communication skills, English Proficiency, ETL frameworks, Infrastructure as code, Java Programming, Mesh modelling, Parquet, PostgreSQL, Python Programming, REDIS, Regression Analysis, Scala Programming, SPARK Programming, SQL

Job Description

At Radian, we see you. For the person you are and the potential you hold. That’s why we’ve embraced a new way of working that lets our people across the country be themselves, be their best and be their boldest. Because when each of us is truly seen, each of us gives our best – and at Radian, we’ll give you our best right back.

See Yourself as a Data Science Engineer

The data science engineer works on a team which develops massively scalable, low latency, real-time streaming event-driven data-mesh infrastructure and batch process event-driven data lake architecture to support both internal operations and data science research, as well as highly available consumer-facing systems and APIs. The position works on developing a centralized analytics data infrastructure to ingest event-based data in real-time from both internal Radian systems and services as well as public data sources. This role is a key enabler for data science operations and will facilitate the creation of machine learning feature stores and data cleansing, normalizing, flattening and enrichment processes. These processes will aggregate thousands of columns of data to provide both customer 360 and property 360 data for state-of-the-art scientific AI model research and development, customer facing systems, as well as internal reporting. The data engineer will work in various data environments and systems including Kafka streaming, Spark batch processes, and various types of data stores including RDBMs, KVS, in-memory data stores, vector databases, and graph databases.

See Your Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for the creation of centralized data infrastructure, and data cleansing processes as well as machine learning feature stores, and customer 360 / property 360 views to facilitate data science research
• Provides highly available data infrastructure that supports both real-time streaming and batch processes for customer facing machine learning APIs and microservices
• Responsible for managing risk, security, compliance, governance, and SSDLC within the scope of data engineering

See the Job Specifications

Knowledge:

• Experienced with building and scaling highly available consumer facing applications
• Experienced with architecting enterprise real-time event driven data lake architecture on distributed file systems such as Hadoop, cloud buckets in AWS, Azure, GCP, or equivalent
• Experienced with creating streaming data-mesh infrastructure with Kafka
• Experienced with creating efficient, scalable & reliable batch data lake ETL processes with Spark
• Understands best practices regarding serialization / deserialization formats for real-time and batch data lake processing including Parquet and Avro
• Experienced managing SQL tools for data lakes (e.g. Snowflake, Athena, Impala, Hive, or equivalents)
• Experience in architecting, and scaling systems based on various types of data stores including RDBMs, KVS, and in-memory data stores, and has experience with at least one of each type (e.g. Postgres, Cassandra, Redis, or equivalents)
• Experienced with software application development and associated best practices including dev, stage, prod environments, code reviews, unit tests, regression tests, e2e tests, library and artifact packaging, etc.
• Understands software design patterns, and has strong proficiency in at least one modern language (Python, Scala, Java, etc.)
• Experienced leveraging git version control, and CI-CD pipelines with continuous release cycles
• Experienced working on an Agile / Scrum project management environment
• Experienced with creating Docker containers and associated shell scripts
• Experience with data orchestration (Airflow, Dagster), versioning (Dolt), or quality testing (Great Expectations) is a plus
• Real estate industry experience is a plus

Skills and Abilities:

• Proven ability to work autonomously, independent thinker with strong communication/interpersonal skills
• Proven ability to quickly understand client requirements and translate them into software developer requirements
• Strong technical estimating skills
• Ability to manage multiple assignments/projects simultaneously.
• Strong analytical ability
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work independently
• Takes ownership of actions and outcomes
• Willing and capable to remain open, flexible and adaptable to change
• Strong customer orientation
• Strong team orientation

Prior Work Experience

• Technical: 1 - 3 years
• Supervisory: None

Education and Credentials

• Required: HS Diploma/GED
• Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree, Concentration in STEM

See Your Location

Radian is committed to a flexible work environment for many of our roles. This is a *

Work From Anywhere

* role meaning you have the flexibility to work from home (or another designated workspace that fits your needs).

This role provides additional flexibility should you want to work on-site at a Radian office. Explore our office locations here and let your Talent Acquisition Partner know you would be interested in working on-site.

* Work From Anywhere is subject to Radian’s Alternative Work Policy and business needs.

See Why You Should Work With Us

• Competitive Compensation: Competitive Compensation: anticipated base salary from $86,082 to $137,940 based on skills and experience. This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program.
• Our Company Makes an Impact. We’ve been recognized by multiple organizations like Bloomberg’s Gender-Equality Index, HousingWire’s Tech 100, and The Forum of Executive Women’s Champion of Board Diversity. Radian has also pledged to PwC’s CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion commitment.
• Rest and Relaxation. Generous time off starting day one, 9 paid holidays + 1 floating holiday in support of our DEI culture.
• Health Benefits. Multiple medical plan choices, including HSA and FSA options, dental, and vision.
• Prepare for your Future. 401(k) with a top of market company match (
• did we mention the company match is immediately vested)
• Paid Parental Leave. An opportunity for all new parents to embrace this exciting change in their lives. 
• Employee Assistance and Discount Programs. From helping you navigate the healthcare system, to providing resources and assistance to parents and caregivers of children with development disabilities, to scoring discounts with thousands of retailers. 
• Pet Insurance. To help protect our furry family members.