Data engineer

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KBC Global Services is the engine behind KBC Group – a leading bank-insurance group with over 45,000 talented employees serving more than 12 million clients across Europe. 

The SSC Model Validation team in Bulgaria (established 2020) is now one of the largest validation teams in the Group, delivering data-driven solutions with internally developed Python tools. 

What does this job entail? 
  
As a data engineer for the credit risk data hub, you will in a first instance be tasked with extending the database for credit risk modelling, as well as streamlining and standardizing all surrounding processes with the goal to strengthen the consistency and quality of the data we collect. In particular, you will implement new data pipelines, as well as a first set of data quality and consistency checks. On the longer term, you will become responsible for maintaining this database, and you will play a key role in our advances in straight-through-processing e.g., implementing the data delivery queries for annual validations (the yearly reviews to assess the performance of our models), implementing model monitoring processes, etc. 

What do we expect from you? 

You join the implementation team for developing and maintaining our database for credit risk modeling and validation. 

You contribute to the optimization of the code with the purpose of increasing efficiency in handling large amounts of data. 

You have a technical but also functional mindset to help think about the best possible solutions for all data-related processes and can translate this to fully functional implementations without unnecessary complexity. 

You make sure that code development is accompanied by a rigorous testing protocol in order to discover and amend coding errors in all stages of the implementation. 

You will collaborate with credit risk modelers and validators. Setting up structural solutions and embedding everything within our database environment. 

You will build up your knowledge on using and working on the KBC platform, becoming an IT expert within the team such that you can support your colleagues in their data needs. 

Your key strengths? 

Your strengths 

Work is performant, easy to maintain and neatly documented. 

Present complex issues in a clear and structured way. 

Deal properly with deadlines and be results-oriented. 

Apply a mindset of continuous improvement to optimize existing processes and applications. 

Have interest in the banking sector. 

Your education and background 

Bachelor’s or master's degree in (applied) Information Technology or Computer Sciences, 

Excellent Python skills (pandas, polars, spark) and Git, 

Fluent in English. 

What do we offer? 

Excellent opportunities for professional and career development 

Opportunities to travel and work across Europe 

Flexible working hours & hybrid workplace model 

Christmas & Performance bonuses 

25 days annual paid holiday 

Food vouchers, multisport card, additional health insurance 

Preferential terms for banking and insurance products & services offered by KBC Group companies in Bulgaria (loans rates, life and non-life insurance, etc.) 

If you find this job opportunity interesting and you meet the requirements for the position send a CV in English. 

Only shortlisted candidates will be invited to an interview.  

Confidentiality is guaranteed and the provided data is subject to special protection in the meaning of the GDPR and Personal Data Protection Act. 

Recruiter Name

Lyubomira Evgenieva Ivanova