Full-Time

Senior Data Engineer

GM financial

GM financial

5,001-10,000 employees

Auto financing and dealership floorplan lending

No salary listed

No H1B Sponsorship

Arlington, TX, USA + 1 more

More locations: Irving, TX, USA

Hybrid

Category
Data & Analytics (1)
Required Skills
Microsoft Azure
SQL
REST APIs
Requirements
  • Expert-level proficiency in Azure SQL or SQL Server, including OLTP design, normalization (3NF), referential integrity, and constraints
  • Strong experience with Azure ecosystem for event-driven or micro-batch data movement
  • Deep understanding of SQL internals—locking, latches, execution plans, and isolation levels (e.g., Read Committed Snapshot)
  • Experience consuming RESTful APIs, handling pagination, rate limiting, and JSON parsing
  • Working knowledge of security methodologies, policies, and best practices for financial data
  • Ability to troubleshoot and optimize high-volume transactional systems for performance and reliability
  • 6-8 years of hands-on experience with data engineering
  • High School Diploma or equivalent
  • Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent work experience
Responsibilities
  • Architecting and implementing resilient data ingestion pipelines and designing normalized database schemas optimized for transactional processing
  • Ensure seamless integration between vendor systems and internal applications, maintaining high availability and performance for operational data services
  • Collaborates with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, efficient, and scalable solutions that support GM Financial’s operational data strategy
  • Design and maintain an Operational Data Store (ODS) that serves as the authoritative source for integrated applications, while implementing strategies for synchronization, conflict resolution, and resilience
  • Requires deep expertise in Azure SQL performance tuning and OLTP optimization to guarantee sub-second response times for critical applications
  • Operational Data Ingestion: Architect and build resilient pipelines to extract data from vendor APIs/SFTP and load it into Azure SQL with minimal latency
  • ODS Schema Design: Design and maintain a normalized (3NF) database model optimized for OLTP and application integration, rather than analytical reporting
  • Application Integration Layer: Create and optimize Views, Stored Procedures, and Table Functions that allow internal applications to safely read/write data without direct access to raw tables
  • High Availability & Sync: Implement strategies to ensure the internal ODS matches the vendor “State of Truth,” handling record updates, deletions, and conflict resolution
  • Performance Tuning (OLTP): Aggressively tune Azure SQL for application performance (index tuning, locking/blocking reduction, query plan analysis) to ensure sub-second response times for integrated apps
  • Resilience Engineering: Build “self-healing” mechanisms to queue and retry requests when vendor systems fail, preventing downstream application crashes
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience building DR (Disaster Recovery) hot/warm sites for financial data
  • Familiarity with Change Data Capture (CDC) tools to minimize payload size
  • Experience with FIS or similar financial systems

GM Financial provides auto loans and vehicle leases through General Motors’ network of dealerships to individual buyers and commercial clients. As the captive finance arm, its financing options are tied to GM vehicle sales to help customers purchase GM brands like Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac. The company earns revenue from interest on loans and leases and related service fees, and it offers prime and subprime lending as well as dealer floorplan financing for dealership inventories. Its goal is to support GM’s sales by offering financing that makes it easier for buyers and dealers to complete vehicle purchases.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$5.5B

Headquarters

Fort Worth, Texas

Founded

1992

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What believers are saying

  • BBB− credit upgrade enhances capital market access.
  • $2B private auto loan sale diversifies liquidity sources.
  • R$300M Brazil debenture funds wholesale operations growth.

What critics are saying

  • GM sales decline slashes loan origination volume immediately.
  • Rising rates trigger subprime defaults within 6-12 months.
  • EV shift shrinks financed amounts per vehicle in 12-24 months.

What makes GM financial unique

  • Captive finance exclusively supports GM vehicle sales through dealerships.
  • Portfolio spans prime and subprime loans for diverse credit profiles.
  • Provides floorplan financing to GM dealers for inventory management.

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