Technical Lead, Data Platform Engineer
Core
Lead the engineering of a federated 'Data as a Product' platform, migrating from legacy systems to Snowflake to support data teams, Data Scientists, and AI Agents.
Role type
Senior IC Technical Lead, Data Platform Engineer
Builds
Snowflake data platform, streaming/batch ingestion pipelines, orchestration (Airflow), and the Data Product Portal (via careerplan.io/jobs/87e95695-5d06-432b-a564-64a1191005d2-technical-lead-data-platform-engineer-at-fundingcircle)
Domain
Fintech / Data Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Snowflake (Iceberg, RBAC), Advanced SQL, Python, dbt, Kafka/CDC, Airflow, Infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, Data security/governance
Preferred skills
Data contracts (ODCS/ODPS), Regulated financial services experience, Large platform migration experience, PySpark
Technologies
Snowflake, Airflow, Kafka, dbt, Python, SQL, Iceberg
Responsibilities
Lead technical direction and architectural planning for the data platform; Own technical quality, security, governance, and operational excellence (on-call, incident response); Mentor engineers and establish review culture; Define reusable patterns and standards for domain teams; Lead the Athena to Snowflake migration; Manage vendor relationships; Explain technical trade-offs to stakeholders; Set standards for AI-assisted engineering.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities