Databricks-Driven Market Risk Data Architecture Lead

BRAINS WORKGROUP, INC.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Unknown Bank in New York is seeking a Data Architecture & Engineering Lead for Market Risk Technology. Hybrid work arrangement with two days in the office every two weeks, and a salary range of $200k–$240k plus a 20% bonus plus benefits.

You will oversee end-to-end data platform design, migration to Databricks/Delta Lake, and platform operations for VaR, FRTB, sensitivities, P&L, and regulatory reporting. Lead data models, performance tuning, and data observability across Risk, Finance, and

Qualifications

• 15+ years in data architecture, engineering, or platform roles within financial services.
• Hands-on expertise in Market Risk data domains including trades, positions, sensitivities, P&L, VaR, stress, FRTB, regulatory reporting.
• Experience designing and operating modern data platforms including lakehouse, distributed compute, semantic layers.
• Production experience with Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, plus working knowledge of SQL Server and SSIS to credibly lead migration.
• Strong leadership and collaboration with risk managers, quants, application owners, engineers, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Data Architecture: Oversee data architecture, including transactional and analytical stores, Lakehouse, semantic layers, and reporting models.
• Engineering Frameworks & Patterns: Develop reusable libraries for ingestion, quality, lineage, orchestration, errors, and recovery.
• Migration Leadership: Lead SSIS-to-Databricks migration, sequencing, parallel runs, cutover, and decommissioning.
• Risk Data Models: Design canonical data models for trades, positions, sensitivities, P&L, market data, VaR, stress, and regulatory reporting.
• Performance & Scale: Optimize SQL and Spark workloads to meet strict end-of-day SLAs.
• Data Observability: Integrate QA, SLA tracking, pipeline health, reconciliation, anomaly detection, and lineage.
• Full Lifecycle Ownership: Design through deployment and ongoing operations; production supports daily ops.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Align with risk, finance, front office, and governance teams.

Skills

Data architecture

Data engineering

Databricks

Spark

Data modeling

Data observability

ETL modernization

Leadership

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

SQL Server

SSIS

Delta Lake

Job description

Unknown Bank in New York is seeking a Data Architecture & Engineering Lead for Market Risk Technology. Hybrid work arrangement with two days in the office every two weeks, and a salary range of $200k–$240k plus a 20% bonus plus benefits.

You will oversee end-to-end data platform design, migration to Databricks/Delta Lake, and platform operations for VaR, FRTB, sensitivities, P&L, and regulatory reporting. Lead data models, performance tuning, and data observability across Risk, Finance, and