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Associate Principal, Data Analytics Engineering

Options Clearing Corporation · Chicago, IL · $124,400–$140,500 a year · Full time

Posted Sep 1, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a time you discovered your pipeline had been loading bad data for days. What did you do?

What they are checking: Incident ownership, communication with users and prevention through tests and monitoring.

Tell me about leading a data team or project. How did you divide the work and keep quality high?

What they are checking: Leadership expected of someone who drives the team responsible for the analytics platform.

What would you do

How would you work with DBAs to design access controls that meet security and governance standards?

What they are checking: Balancing data accessibility with protection of sensitive financial data in a regulated firm.

How do you gather requirements from analysts who are not sure what they need?

What they are checking: Discovery skill and the ability to turn vague asks into useful data products.

How would you become an expert on OCC's data sets in your first few months?

What they are checking: Curiosity and a plan for learning the business meaning behind the data, not just the schemas.

About the work

Walk me through how you would design a cloud analytics warehouse for internal teams, starting from raw source systems.

What they are checking: End-to-end data architecture thinking across ingestion, modeling, access and performance.

How would you build a batch ingestion framework that new source systems can plug into without custom code each time?

What they are checking: Engineering for reuse and maintainability rather than one-off pipelines.

Describe how you would model data so analysts can answer questions nobody has asked yet.

What they are checking: Dimensional or analytics modeling judgment that anticipates future use without overbuilding.

A dashboard is slow and analysts are complaining. How do you find and fix the bottleneck?

What they are checking: Warehouse performance tuning across query design, partitioning, clustering and storage.

What data quality checks would you build into an ELT process?

What they are checking: Proactive validation habits that keep trust in analytics data.

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The full job description

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Duties: Expand OCC’s analytics capabilities by making data accessible and usable to analysts throughout the organization. Act as an active contributor to the design and build of our internal analytics data warehouse and the maintenance of the supporting extract, load, and transform processes. Become an expert on OCC’s data sets and support teams across the organization in successfully harnessing this data. Drive the team responsible for gathering requirements and designing solutions that address the problem at hand while also anticipating yet-to-be-asked analytical questions, as well as collaborating with team members in defining and owning processes for developing and maintaining our analytics platform to meet the company’s security and IT standards. Design and implement cloud data warehouse infrastructure for internal facing analytics in collaboration with OCC’s Data Platform and other teams. Develop a batch process data ingestion framework for extraction from systems and loading to target location(s). Build data models to ensure information is available in our analytics warehouse for downstream uses, such as analysis and dashboard development. Maintain performance requirements of our analytics warehouse by tuning warehouse optimizations and storage processes. Collaborate with DBAs to design access controls around our analytics warehouse to meet business and internal governance needs. Create documentation and testing to ensure data is accurate and easily understandable. Use IaC tools like Terraform and Ansible to provision AWS cloud hardware and software, enabling teams to perform model development and run backtesting. Leverage Python frameworks, data modeling, shell programming and configuration as code to build SQL ETL (Extract Transform Load) pipelines to serve accurate business-oriented datasets to business users. Implement DevOps practices like containerizing app code with Docker and Continuous Integration pipelines with tools like Jenkins and JFrog Artifactory to ensure high quality code. Integrate services securely with HashiCorp Vault to manage secrets, and orchestrate data intensive applications with orchestrators like Automic UC4 and Apache Airflow. Promote self-service capabilities and data literacy for business users leveraging the platform through development of training presentations and resources. Discover and share best practices for data and analytics engineering with members of the team. Invest in your continued learning on data and analytics engineering best practices and evaluate them for fit in improving maintainability and reliability of analytics infrastructure. Assist analysts in solving their analytics questions/challenges. Up to 40% telecommuting permitted. OCC offers a standard benefits package.*This position qualifies for The Options Clearing Corporation’s Employee Referral Program.* Education & Experience Required: Master’s degree in data science, analytics, or related and two (2) years of experience as a data analyst, data analytics associate, or related Special Skills Required: Must have work experience with each of the following: 1) Use IaC tools like Terraform and Ansible to provision AWS cloud hardware and software, enabling teams to perform model development and run backtesting; 2) Leverage Python frameworks, data modeling, shell programming and configuration as code to build SQL ETL (Extract Transform Load) pipelines to serve accurate business-oriented datasets to business users; 3) Implement DevOps practices like containerizing app code with Docker and Continuous Integration pipelines with tools like Jenkins and JFrog Artifactory to ensure high quality code; and 4) Integrate services securely with HashiCorp Vault to manage secrets, and orchestrate data intensive applications with orchestrators like Automic UC4 and Apache Airflow. Up to 40% telecommuting permitted. Salary $124,400-$140,500 Apply: OCC offers a standard benefits package. See a full list of benefits here: https://www.theocc.com/careers/thriving-together . Apply online at www.theocc.com . No calls. EOE. About Us The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com. Benefits A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include: • A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work • Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education • Student Loan Repayment Assistance • Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely • Generous PTO and Parental leave • 401k Employer Match • Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision Visit https://www.theocc.com/careers/thriving-together for more information. Compensation • The salary range listed for any given position is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at OCC, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and/or education. • In addition, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer. • We typically do not hire at the maximum of the range in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a substantial benefits package as noted on www.theocc.com/careers • All employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, company and individual performance and are not guaranteed. Step 1 When you find a position you're interested in, click the 'Apply' button. Please complete the application and attach your resume. Step 2 You will receive an email notification to confirm that we've received your application. Step 3 If you are called in for an interview, a representative from OCC will contact you to set up a date, time, and location. For more information about OCC , please click here . OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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