Data Engineer
Walker & Dunlop

Department:
Information Technology

Ready to bring your whole self to work every day? At Walker & Dunlop, we didn't get to where we are by hiring ordinary individuals. We got here by hiring the exceptional! WD is looking for individuals who are caring, collaborative, driven, insightful, and tenacious to join our team!

Walker & Dunlop ' s mission is to deliver the best borrower experience of any commercial real estate lender in the world, and we are achieving this goal by leading the industry in data science and technological innovation.

The technology team at W&D has a creative and entrepreneurial culture - everyone on the team interacts directly with customers, and we all contribute to product development and planning. A commitment to innovation and a passion for disrupting the old-fashioned real estate industry are our highest priorities!

What you will be doing:

• Design, develop and own data pipelines in Google Cloud that power internal analytical tools that are transforming how W&D does business
  
• Drive the collection and refinement of new data sources and continually improve upon existing data integrations
  
• Develop a solid understanding of the features and data sources needed to successfully analyze and execute real estate finance transactions
  

• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team of data scientists, software engineers and real estate professionals to design, develop, test, and support new features
  
• Maintain coding, compliance, and security standards
  
• Proactively learn existing software frameworks and code bases
  
• Participate in pair programming, code review, and design decisions
  
• Present possible technical solutions to various stakeholders, clearly explaining your decisions and how they address real user needs, and incorporating user feedback in subsequent iterations
  

What we ' re looking for:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science
  
• 3-5 years of experience in full stack Python development (Vue.js/React/Angular, Flask/Django/Falcon, PostgreSQL/MySQL/SQL Server)
  
• You have proficient software development knowledge, with experience building, growing, maintaining a variety of products, and a love for creating elegant applications
  
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset and are product-oriented
  
• You are curious and willing to continue learning in data engineering, but also in data science, frontend, and backend technologies
  

Technologies We Use:

• Python 3 (critical)
  
• Python packages for data processing or ML, such as scikit-learn, numpy, beautifulsoup, matplotlib, nltk, pandas (critical)
  
• PostgreSQL / BigQuery (or similar, critical)
  
• Modern Devops i.e. Docker, GitHub Actions, Google Cloud, CI/CD (preferred)
  
• Vue.js (or similar frontend framework, helpful)
  

What to expect your first 6 months?

• At 30 days - You'll have familiarized yourself with how the existing data integrations work, how this data is used across our suite of products and developed code to ingest and clean a new data source.
  
• At 90 days - You'll have a working knowledge of the domain and a deeper understanding about the problem-space. You'll have a good idea of the value provided by your tasks and have implemented / refined a couple of them.
  
• At 180 days - You'll be able to use a scientific approach to identify and propose new features or improvements that would benefit the project and collaborated with the team to implement them. You'll be able to code an automated data pipeline that ingests, cleans, and stores new data sources within the Google Cloud environment. You will have enough real estate domain expertise to be able to read through a new dataset and understand if there are any issues. You will take full ownership of the correctness of this data and understand its importance within the organization.
  

Still reading? Then we think you should apply!

EEO Statement
Walker & Dunlop is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, sex, age, disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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