Principal Data Engineer
Core
Provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering for enterprise-scale, cloud-native data platforms in a major financial institution, focusing on architecture, migration, and governance.
Role type
Principal Data Engineer (Staff level)
Builds
Enterprise data platforms, data products, and modern cloud-native data architectures
Domain
Financial services / Enterprise Data Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Enterprise data platform architecture, cloud-native distributed systems, large-scale data migration, data governance and lineage, observability, technical mentorship, stakeholder engagement, DevOps and CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code
Preferred skills
Banking/financial services experience, data mesh patterns, AI/ML data foundations, AWS/Azure/GCP expertise
Technologies
AWS, Azure, GCP
Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end technical strategy and architecture for enterprise data platforms; Design and evolve scalable cloud-native data platforms; Guide major data migrations and legacy warehouse modernization; Define engineering standards for data quality, security, and operational resilience; Establish data product patterns and semantic models; Mentor senior engineers and shape technical leadership; Partner with cross-functional leaders on platform delivery and innovation
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategic leadership
