Data Engineering Lead - Oracle/Vertica

Bank of America; Addison (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Data Engineer to design and maintain Oracle/Vertica based data pipelines across heterogeneous systems. You will implement SQL/PLSQL, Unix shell scripts, and automation, ensuring data quality and performance. Collaboration with product owners and BI teams is essential.

The role emphasizes leadership in a team, agile delivery, and hands-on development with Autosys, GitHub Copilot, and CI/CD practices in an enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of job related experience required.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases, focusing heavily on Oracle SQL and PL/SQL.
• Strong experience designing and implementing Oracle-driven data integration pipelines using SQL, PL/SQL, and Unix shell scripting.
• Experience automating Oracle processes using job schedulers (Autosys preferred).
• Professional experience in SQL/PLSQL development, including packages, functions, procedures, triggers, and bulk processing.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops and is accountable for feature delivery.
• Applies enterprise standards for solution design, coding and quality.
• Ensures solution meets product acceptance criteria with minimal technical debt.
• Guides the team on work breakdown and execution.
• Works with the Product Owner to ensure that product backlog/requirements are healthy, with clear acceptance criteria.
• Plays a team lead role (as an individual contributor) and mentors the team.
• Guides team members with skills and practices (planning and estimation, peer reviews, and other engineering practices).
• Analyze existing business processes and design Oracle-centric optimizations, automation, and workflow improvements.
• Gather and document functional, non-functional, and technical requirements for incoming requests.
• Analyze functional and data requirements—understand how applications store, transform, and expose data within Vertica/Oracle.
• Assist users and development teams with application testing, data validation, and troubleshooting Oracle/Vertica database processes.
• Identify, document, and troubleshoot application and database-related issues (performance, data integrity, failures).
• Document end to end processes, database procedures, workflow logic, and operational runbooks.
• Create and maintain training material for end-users and support teams.
• Demonstrate exceptional analytical/problem solving skills with strong communication and collaboration.
• Collaborate with other development teams to manage interdependencies, design test cases, debug issues, and maintain high data quality.
• Ensure software stability through documentation, peer code reviews, regression testing, unit testing, and UAT.
• Perform logical and physical data modeling, including schema design in Oracle.
• Perform in-depth data analysis, profiling, and identification of data quality issues.
• Support story refinement, requirement elaboration, and effort estimation in Agile processes.
• Comfortable using Github Copilot and other AI tools to speed up delivery of the development and lead and encourage be a role model to drive the Developers growth.
• Present team’s work to Business partners and Lead Sr and Jr team members onshore and offshore through technical complexities in Oracle development and CI CD pipeline design and industry standard best practices.
• Develop strong understanding of stakeholder needs and translate them into scalable Database based technical solutions.

Skills

Automation

Influence

Result Orientation

Stakeholder Management

Technical Strategy Development

Architecture

Business Acumen

Risk Management

Solution Delivery Process

Solution Design

Agile Practices

Analytical Thinking

Collaboration

Data Management

DevOps Practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, IT, Computer Science

Tools

Autosys

JIRA

Job description

Bank of America is seeking a Data Engineer to design and maintain Oracle/Vertica based data pipelines across heterogeneous systems. You will implement SQL/PLSQL, Unix shell scripts, and automation, ensuring data quality and performance. Collaboration with product owners and BI teams is essential.

The role emphasizes leadership in a team, agile delivery, and hands-on development with Autosys, GitHub Copilot, and CI/CD practices in an enterprise environment.