Data Engineer Lead

Responsibilities

• Provide direction for the organization’s data engineering and architecture strategy.
• Make final decisions on data infrastructure design and tool selection, balancing business needs with technical feasibility.
• Collaborate on requirements gathering while owning the architectural vision and execution.
• Champion data management best practices across the organization.
• Write production-quality code and implement scalable ETL pipelines using tools like AWS, S3, Glue, Lambda, and Databricks.
• Apply business intelligence best practices such as dimensional modeling and distributed data processing.
• Design, build, and maintain modern cloud-based data platforms to support enterprise data needs including integrations, analytics, and AI.
• Bootstrap and grow the data engineering team, setting standards and mentoring new members.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions, ensuring alignment with broader organizational goals.
• Enable data-driven decision-making by delivering reliable analytics pipelines and insights.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• S. degree in a related field and 7 to 9 years professional experience OR a total of 7 plus years' experience as Senior Data Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, or equivalent.
• 5 plus years working in AWS Cloud (AWS Solution Architect Certification is a plus) and hybrid cloud environments.
• 7 plus years working with data warehouse platforms.
• Coding experience in SQL and scripting languages such as Python and Bash and expert working knowledge of the Spark platform, preferably in a cloud data platform environment such as Databricks.
• Experience working with large and complex data sets with multi-terabyte scale is a plus.
• Knowledge of Agile and GitOps methodologies.
• Banking experience / knowledge is a plus.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with clients and groups of employees to build and maintain positive relationships.
• Strong leadership and communication skills. You must be able to collaborate with other teams, effectively manage projects, and communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders.

Key Competencies for Position

• Promotes Change
• Strategy in Action
• Compelling Communication
• Takes Decisions & Solves Problems

Salary Range

The salary range for this position is $98,400. - $199,000/Yr.. Final compensation will be determined by location, skills, experience, qualifications and the career level at which the position is filled.