Fintech Data Architect - Principal Platform Engineer

Intuit; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 245,000 - 332,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit is seeking a Fintech Principal Data Engineer to bridge data needs between product teams and business consumers, owning cross-domain data products and a scalable data estate. You will shape canonical domain data and advance data ontology to support AI-ready analytics and compliant, auditable data lineage.

The role emphasizes collaboration with Fintech product teams, data stewards, and analytics, leveraging modern data-serving technologies and a SOX-compliant data platform to enable a

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering or data architecture.
• Strong data modeling for transactional and analytical consumption; establish a source of truth across producers.
• Experience operating in regulated environments — SOX or equivalent controls.
• Demonstrated influence across product, analytics, risk, and compliance stakeholders.
• Communicates precisely with engineers and clearly with executives.
• Nice to have fintech/payments domain experience or knowledge graphs.

Responsibilities

• Understand how data is produced by product microservices; suggest and contribute application changes (event design, correlation IDs, data contracts)
• Canonical data modeling for Fintech domain data — profile and transactional entities, cross-domain concepts, and the certified model that serves as the single source of truth
• Understand how AI agents consume data and ontology concepts; contribute to the Fintech data ontology so agents reason over stated business meaning rather than inferring it from raw schemas
• Understand and solve for select use-case-specific needs of data consumers in areas like finance, compliance, marketing, and risk — including owning semantic views for consumers without their own engineering
• Build self-serve mechanisms and paved paths: contract tooling, certification infrastructure, and standards that let domain teams produce and publish quality data without a central bottleneck
• Design and build durable cross-domain data products consumed by multiple teams
• Evaluate and adopt modern data-serving technology (HTAP, online-OLAP, on-read materialization) to replace pipeline-heavy architectures — with SOX-grade consistency and lineage by construction
• Partner with data stewards across Fintech domains: drive standards adoption, review models, and steward changes so producers see their consumers before a change ships
• Balance tactical delivery with strategic build-out — and know when each takes priority
• Understanding of Intuit products (QBO and TT) and how Fintech offerings connect to them

Skills

Data modeling

Canonical modeling

Distributed systems

SQL mastery

SOX compliance

Influence without authority

Clear communication

Fintech domain

Python/Java

Tools

Kafka

Lakehouse

CDC

ETL tools

SQL

Job description

Intuit is seeking a Fintech Principal Data Engineer to bridge data needs between product teams and business consumers, owning cross-domain data products and a scalable data estate. You will shape canonical domain data and advance data ontology to support AI-ready analytics and compliant, auditable data lineage.

The role emphasizes collaboration with Fintech product teams, data stewards, and analytics, leveraging modern data-serving technologies and a SOX-compliant data platform to enable a