Hybrid Lead Data Engineer – Banking Data Platform

ITTConnect; Miami (FL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

ITTConnect seeks a Lead Data Engineer for a direct-hire, full-time role in a hybrid setup in Miami. The position combines hands-on leadership with portfolio delivery across 4–6 concurrent projects in a regulated financial services setting.

You will own technical scope, ensure security and production-readiness, manage a consultant team, and drive architectural patterns using NiFi, Airflow, dbt, and SQL. Strong collaboration with business and IT stakeholders is essential.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of IT experience.
• 8+ years in data engineering, platform delivery, analytics engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years in technical or delivery leadership.
• Strong SQL expertise and practical experience with NiFi, Airflow, dbt, or comparable tools.
• Experience coordinating parallel projects and distributed or consulting teams in complex enterprises.

Responsibilities

• Own integrated delivery for 4-6 concurrent projects, balancing priorities, dependencies, capacity, risks, and production commitments, working under a scaled agile framework.
• Turn transformation needs into technical scope, milestones, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes.
• Provide portfolio visibility through dashboards, risk logs, dependency tracking, and escalation.
• Ensure releases meet change, security, testing, documentation, and production-readiness requirements.
• Direct an 8-12 person consultant team through work allocation, onboarding, delivery follow-up, and quality review.
• Lead cloud-native pipeline delivery and phased re-engineering of on-premises pipelines.
• Follow AWS and Databricks operating model with architecture, security, governance, networking, and compliance standards.
• Redesign and remodeling instead of lifting and shifting when it improves scale, reliability, cost transparency, reuse, lineage, or supportability.

Skills

SQL

NiFi

Airflow

dbt

Leadership

Education

15+ years IT experience

8+ years data engineering

3+ years leadership

Tools

Databricks

AWS

S3

KMS

Job description

ITTConnect seeks a Lead Data Engineer for a direct-hire, full-time role in a hybrid setup in Miami. The position combines hands-on leadership with portfolio delivery across 4–6 concurrent projects in a regulated financial services setting.

You will own technical scope, ensure security and production-readiness, manage a consultant team, and drive architectural patterns using NiFi, Airflow, dbt, and SQL. Strong collaboration with business and IT stakeholders is essential.