VP - Lead Data Engineer (Big Data)

A Financial Instutition is seeking an experienced Lead Data Engineer to lead the bank's strategic data engineering initiatives and drive the evolution of our enterprise data ecosystem. This role will be responsible for building and governing modern enterprise data platforms that support regulatory reporting, risk management, commercial banking analytics, operational intelligence, and AI-enabled insights. The successful candidate will lead the design and delivery of scalable data solutions for both structured and unstructured data while ensuring compliance with banking regulations and data governance standards.

Key

Enterprise Data Platform Strategy & Engineering Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise-scale data platforms supporting banking, regulatory, and analytical workloads. Define the bank's target-state data platform architecture leveraging technologies such as:

Google BigQuery Drive adoption of modern Lakehouse architectures utilizing:

Delta LakeApache Hudi Establish engineering standards for scalability, availability, security, observability, and resilience. Optimize performance, cost, and operational efficiency across enterprise data estates. Unstructured Data & NLP-Enabled Analytics Lead initiatives to unlock business value from unstructured data sources including documents, customer interactions, regulatory publications, policies, and operational records.

Design NLP-enabled data