Engineering Manager- Data
Core
Lead the Data Engineering pod to build and maintain the lakehouse infrastructure that processes billions of dollars in transaction volume for cross-border payment systems.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager (Data Engineering)
Builds
Scalable data pipelines, lakehouse layers (bronze/silver/gold), and governance frameworks for financial institutions.
Domain
Fintech / Cross-border payments / Data Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Data engineering leadership, ingestion (batch/streaming/CDP), lakehouse architecture, data orchestration, data quality & reliability, data governance, cost optimization, team hiring & performance management, SQL, Python, debugging, AI agent utilization.
Preferred skills
Fintech/payments/banking experience, external bank data normalization, data contracts/catalog implementation, GDPR/PCI DSS/DORA/SOC 2 audit experience.
Technologies
SQL, Python, Open Table Formats, CI/CD, Data Quality Testing Tools, AI Agents.
Responsibilities
Define roadmap and engineering standards for the data platform; own ingestion from production databases and partner APIs; manage lakehouse layers and data movement standards; oversee orchestration, CI/CD, and schema changes; ensure data quality, freshness, and incident response; implement governance controls (PII masking, access control, lineage); optimize storage and compute costs; enable self-serve data access for analysts and scientists; debug pipelines and review data models; grow the engineering team.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities
