Job Description

At AIB, our values guide how we work and how we support each other. We’re looking for someone who puts Customer First, takes initiative and Owns the Outcome, and is always looking for ways to Eliminate Complexity You’ll treat colleagues and customers with fairness and Show Respect, and you’ll thrive in a culture built on collaboration where we Be One Team to deliver meaningful impact.

Location/Office Policy: Central Park, Dublin 18 – 3 days per week in office

• Are interested in joining a dynamic team of Data Engineers?
• Would you like to work in a dynamic and collaborative work environment, dedicated to providing exceptional service?
• Do you have a results-focused approach, thrive on challenges, and have the ability to work independently while contributing effectively to a team?

What is the Role:

The Data Engineering team forms part of the Data Engineering and Architecture area within the Centre of Excellence for Data and Analytics at AIB.

The team develop data pipelines on behalf of Business Stakeholders within a complex IT and data infrastructure, with a strong focus on supporting SAS-based data and analytical processing

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for the successful candidate to expand the team’s ability to deliver data products in a best-in-class infrastructure where data and analytical tooling integrate deeply.

Key accountabilities:

• Develops and maintains scalable data pipelines, including pipelines supporting SAS processing and workflows
• Demonstrates experience in the areas of tool usage with large data structures, including SAS datasets and environments where applicable
• Implements processes and systems to monitor data quality, ensuring production data (including SAS outputs) is always accurate and available for key stakeholders and business processes that depend on it
• Follows application design standards and frameworks related to model deployment and execution, including SAS-based model integration where relevant
• Collaborates with analytics and business teams to improve data models (including SAS models) that feed business intelligence tools, increasing data accessibility, and fostering data-driven decision making across the organisation
• Ensures data deployments are robust, supportable and built to the highest quality in line with defined standards
• Delivers the designs set by more senior members of the data engineering community
• Has the tenacity to take a problem from discovery all the way through to solution implementation and resolution

What you Will Bring:

• Minimum of bachelor's degree in a discipline incorporating: information management related disciplines or quantitative analytical techniques, e.g., Software Engineering, Data and Analytics, Mathematics, Statistics
• Experience in a relevant area with knowledge of the software development lifecycle and IT change management, with an understanding of Banking/Risk and/or other model types, and their interdependencies is an advantage
• Hands-on experience working with SAS (e.g. Base SAS, SAS EG, SAS Viya) in a data engineering or analytical context is highly desirable
• Experience with Data Integration technologies - AbInitio a bonus
• Data management, analytical and reporting skills
• Database experience preferably on Teradata, DataBricks or similar (such as Oracle, DB2, Hive, Impala, Kudu, MS SQL Server, Postgres, MongoDB, Cassandra)
• Knowledge of scheduled batch processes within an Enterprise Scheduler, including SAS job scheduling where applicable
• Effective communication skills with a proven record of accomplishment of articulating complex concepts/results in simple language

Why Work for AIB:

We are committed to offering our colleagues choice and flexibility in how we work and live and our hybrid working model enables our people to balance their time between working from home and their designated office, subject to their role, the needs of our customers and business requirements.

Some of our benefits include;

• Market leading Pension Scheme
• Healthcare Scheme
• Variable Pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Family leave options
• Two volunteer days per year

Please click here for further information about AIB’s PACT – Our Commitment to You.

Key Capabilities

Collaborates

Eliminates Complexity

Drives Progress

Database Management System

Data Analysis

If you are not sure about your suitability based on any aspects of the role advertised, we encourage you to please contact the Recruiter for this role, Sarah Lyons, at careers@aib.ie for a conversation.

AIB is an equal opportunities employer, and we pride ourselves on being the first bank in Ireland to receive the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees. Should you have a reasonable accommodation request please email the Talent Acquisition team at careers@aib.ie

Disclaimer: Unsolicited CV’s sent to AIB by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this position. AIB operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our recruitment partners.

Application deadline : Monday 13th July 2026