Data Engineer Lead

Data Engineer Lead

Lead Data Engineer

Role

As a Lead Data Engineer, you will:

•Lead the design, development, and evolution of enterprise-grade data platforms and pipelines supporting credit risk products, decisioning capabilities, and analytics solutions.

•Architect and implement scalable ETL/ELT frameworks utilizing Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, and cloud-native technologies.

•Establish data quality, lineage, governance, observability, and monitoring capabilities to ensure trusted and compliant data products.

•Drive the migration and modernization of legacy data assets into cloud-based architectures and Data Lakehouse platforms.

•Partner with Risk, Product, Architecture, and Engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

•Define and promote engineering standards, coding practices, testing frameworks,Data Quality frameworks, deployment automation, and operational excellence across the data ecosystem.

•Lead technical design reviews and influence architectural direction for data-intensive applications and services.

•Optimize large-scale data processing workloads for performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

•Enable AI and advanced analytics initiatives through creation of high-quality, reusable, governed data products.

•Mentor, coach, and raise the technical capability of engineers across the organization by fostering a culture of ownership, continuous learning, accountability, and engineering excellence.

•Shape strategic roadmap planning, technology evaluation, and delivery priorities across the ECR portfolio, balancing business outcomes, engineering feasibility, risk, compliance, and long-term platform sustainability.

•Support regulatory, compliance, security, and audit requirements through robust engineering controls and documentation.

•Own complex problems with dependencies across multiple services and facilitate cross-functional collaboration to drive resolution.

•Conduct technical interviews, assess engineering talent, and contribute to raising the overall performance bar of the organization.

All About You

The ideal candidate for this position should have:

Essential Skills & Experience

•Strong expertise in designing and implementing large-scale data engineering solutions and distributed data processing systems.

•Advanced proficiency with Databricks, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, SQL, Hadoop and Python.

•Experience building and operating cloud-based data platforms on Azure, AWS, or GCP.

•Expertise developing enterprise-grade ETL/ELT pipelines, streaming architectures, and data integration frameworks.

•Strong understanding of data modeling techniques for analytical and operational workloads.

•Experience implementing data quality frameworks, lineage, metadata management, and governance practices.

•Experience with Data formats ( Parquet, Avro, ORC )

•Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, and DevOps practices.

•Experience with Workflow orchestration Tools like Airflow

•Strong understanding of security, privacy, and compliance requirements associated with sensitive financial and customer data.

•Proven ability to lead technical initiatives across multiple teams and influence engineering direction without direct authority.

•Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and business functions.

•Demonstrated leadership in aligning engineering teams around shared goals, driving delivery through ambiguity, and creating clarity for stakeholders across product, risk, analytics, architecture, and operations.

•Ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders, make thoughtful trade-off decisions, and guide teams toward pragmatic solutions that improve credit risk outcomes and operational resilience.

•Knowledge of Java Based application development is a huge Plus.

Leadership Skills

•Lead by influence across engineering, product, risk, analytics, and architecture teams to align priorities and deliver measurable business outcomes.

•Create clarity in complex, ambiguous environments by translating business needs into actionable technical direction and execution plans.

•Develop engineering talent through mentoring, knowledge sharing, design guidance, and constructive feedback.

•Promote a high-accountability culture focused on quality, reliability, security, compliance, and continuous improvement.

•Communicate effectively with senior stakeholders and clearly articulate trade-offs, risks, dependencies, and delivery progress.

Preferred Qualifications

•Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related STEM discipline or alternative minimum of 10 years of experience in a related field.

Technical Skills

Preferred expertise in:

•Databricks

•Apache Spark / PySpark

•Hadoop

•AirFlow

•Delta Lake

•SQL

•Python

•Airflow

•Azure Data Services

•Kafka/Event Streaming

•GitHub / CI-CD Tooling

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