Company Overview:

UBX is a wholly owned subsidiary of Unionbank of the Philippines. UnionBank is a top 10 universal bank in the Philippines by assets, with annual revenues of over PHP 25 Billion. UnionBank is a leader in digital financial services and has been recognized as the top digital bank in the Philippines by Asiamoney and IDC. UnionBank has established UBX to build on its leadership in digital: UBX facilitates UnionBank’s exploration and creation of new, digital and potentially non-banking business models.

UBX’s mission includes investments in financial technology (fintech) companies and other ventures whose capabilities complement UBX’s platform development. UBX is developing platforms that embed financial services into customer and business experiences. This results in financial services that are accessible to a broader community – physically, logically and economically. UBX invests to positively and materially impact financial inclusion.

Truly innovative financial technology should make banking perfectly transparent in the lives of consumers and businesses. When we talk about banking today, we still talk about accounts, lines of credit and cash management services. Banking still distracts and interrupts. Our ultimate goal: banking that becomes invisible, banking vanishes into our lives and businesses. This is why we are particularly focused on ecosystems: can we participate in and build the platforms where we can seamlessly embed banking in the context of experiences for consumers and businesses.

Our Customers:

Ecosystems are built on platforms that support multi-participant markets and multi-point transactions. Therefore, from an ecosystem development perspective, our customers are the participants in these ecosystems.

This can be made clearer by way of example. For the financial services platform, the resulting ecosystem has the following participants:

• Financial institutions such as rural bank and non-bank financial institutions (coops, lenders, etc.)
• Customers of these financial institutions
• Financial service providers that leverage the platform such as lenders and insurers
• Technology providers that build solutions on top of the platform

Data Engineer

This role will directly report to the Head of Data Analytics and Engineering.

This role will require one to collaborate with different product owners, project managers, marketing team, and the other development teams to design and develop applications for UBX’s customers. This team is also responsible for enterprise BI and analytics.

The role is both a hands-on and would require BI technologies, data strategy, data science, data modelling & engineering and developing AI applications. Success on this position will be measured by customer feedback and strategic returns such as:

• Customer acquisition
• Increased customer activity, loyalty and satisfaction
• Increased revenues and efficiencies

Objectives and Responsibilities:

• Data-driven Product Development, Design & Maintenance: As the data engineer for analytics and AI team you are primarily responsible for:
• delivering user stories and other agreed requirements on-time and on-budget;
• collaborating with various business units and support teams to develop proof-of-concepts, minimum viable products and aid in the implementations of fully commercialized products and/or projects;
• evaluate issues/bugs reported and provide root-cause analysis, impact analysis and recommend solutions and workarounds in coordination with the development team, DevOps lead and product owner;
• building and gathering scalable data, ETL pipelines, and implementing machine learning model APIs; iteration and remodelling
• extracting, transforming, cleaning and organizing of raw data from multiple sources
• continuously monitoring and testing of the system to ensure optimized performance; be able to proactively monitor the overall system from the data load perspective and take appropriate actions to improve overall implementation and performance;
• should have strong ability to troubleshoot performance and configuration related issues due to firewalls, load balancers etc
• unit testing to ensure code robustness including edge-cases usability and general reliability
• Be up-to-date with the latest developments, standards, and benchmarks for data engineering, data analysis, and data science concepts
• Participate in various informational sessions and workshops as a participant or instructor upon request
• Strategic Partnerships: UBX encourages collaboration with strategic partners to bring better solutions to our clients. As senior engineer you are responsible for:
• finding the right partners that will aid UBX’s overall strategy
• collaborate with and participate in industry events that will help improve internal competencies and expertise
• engage, select and negotiate commercial terms with identified key partners
• Contribute in the success of UBX: As a key element to the success of the company, the Data Analytics and AI team is expected to do other responsibilities as determined by management.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, economics, actuarial, statistics, computer science or information technology or any relevant experience
• Minimum of 2-5 years experience in development and solutions delivery
• Working experience with Snowflake
• PL/SQL Oracle development experience
• Hands-on experience with NoSQL databases
• Experience pulling data from a variety of data source types
• Dimensional modelling experience
• Experience interfacing with business users and understanding their requirements
• Ability to learn and implement new and different techniques
• Strong Project Management skills
• Experienced in Hadoop, HDFS, Spark, Hbase, Hive, Sqoop
• Experienced in AWS Data Pipeline, Redshift, Glue, Kinesis
• Experienced with OLAP, SSAS, and MDX

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