Role Overview
At LPL’s Global Capability Center, you'll find a collaborative culture where your voice matters, integrity guides every decision, and technology fuels progress. We are seeking an Engineer-II with strong experience in data engineering, UI development, API engineering, and AWS cloud technologies. This role focuses on enabling high-quality analytics consumption by building curated datasets, high-performing APIs, and intuitive UI integrations. This role blends data engineering + UI engineering + modern API development in a consumer-facing capacity.
Responsibilities
- UI Development (Angular)
- Build or enhance Angular UI components for dataset discovery, schema preview, quality insights, and interactive data browsing.
- Integrate APIs into Angular services, modules, and components using RxJS and state management.
- Improve UX for dataset search, navigation, and metadata visibility.
- API Development (REST/GraphQL)
- Build high-performing APIs for data access, metadata retrieval, dataset previews, and export workflows.
- Implement Pagination, filtering, and advanced query parameters.
- Implement Entitlement-aware access controls.
- Implement Caching, throttling, and performance enhancements.
- Implement Bulk vs. micro consumption flows.
- Create SDK-style examples, reusable integration templates, and client libraries.
- Data Validation, Quality & Observability
- Perform deep data validation for new or enhanced datasets.
- Integrate schema checks, monitoring workflows, and drift detection.
- Investigate anomalies and consumer-reported issues; implement long-term improvements.
Requirements
- 6+ years in data engineering in Angular/full-stack engineering roles.
- Practical Angular experience (services, components, RxJS, modules).
- AWS experience with Glue, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, IAM.
- Ability to interpret/optimize pipelines in Spark, Glue, Python, and dbt.
- Understanding of Medallion architecture, Data modeling (star schema, semantic layers, wide tables), Data lineage, metadata, and data quality practices.
- Strong SQL skills (Snowflake, PostgreSQL, or similar).
- Familiarity with Iceberg table format.
- Proficiency with Git/GitHub workflows.
Preferred Qualifications
- Database Knowledge (Plus): Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse, Apache Iceberg, PostgreSQL.
- Hands-on experience designing or consuming REST/GraphQL APIs is a plus.
- Experience with data catalogs (Glue Catalog, DataHub, Alation, Collibra).
- Understanding of OAuth/OIDC, token-based authentication, API gateway patterns.
- Experience with consumer analytics tools (Power BI, Tableau, ThoughtSpot).