Data Engineer
About the role
Lazard is one of the world’s preeminent financial advisory and asset management firms. Our people and culture make the difference. While global in presence and reach, ours is a close, collaborative community of just over 3,000 professionals. Lazard is a place of continuous knowledge sharing, skill development and relationship building, where professionals grow and succeed together. Our entrepreneurial culture, flat structure and embrace of individual differences, allow creative ideas, original concepts, and unique perspectives to drive our business forward — and for careers to take flight. Lazard Asset Management (LAM) is seeking a Data Engineer to join its Enterprise Data team and help advance the firm’s data journey. This role is responsible for the firm’s external market data ETL and warehousing, contributing to data architecture and cloud engineering design and delivering new data pipelines. It is a highly hands-on backend engineering role within a lean engineering team, where the successful candidate is expected to take ownership of problems, design practical solutions, and implement them end to end.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the operational excellence of existing ETL workloads running on Snowflake, Databricks, and Sybase.
- Respond to end-user requests and troubleshoot issues related to data access, latency, and performance.
- Work with business and technology teams to understand their data consumption patterns and