Lead Data Engineer: Enterprise Data Platforms (Hybrid)

Raymond James; Saint Petersburg (FL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Raymond James is seeking a highly skilled Lead Data Engineer to join our Enterprise Data team. You will design, build, and optimize enterprise-scale data integration solutions powering critical wealth management platforms across the organization.

As a technical leader, you will collaborate with data engineers, architects, and application teams to deliver scalable, real-time and batch data solutions while upholding reliability and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and developing enterprise ETL and data integration solutions.
• Expert-level SQL development and data modeling.
• Experience supporting large-scale production systems in complex enterprise environments.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across technical teams and influence solutions.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, reliable, and high-performing data integration solutions.
• Build low-latency and near real-time data pipelines that serve multiple business consumers and applications.
• Partner with Data Engineers, Architects, and software development teams to create efficient ETL processes and optimized database solutions.
• Develop and maintain enterprise-grade data infrastructure that supports growing business needs.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize batch processing environments to meet SLAs.
• Support and maintain critical production data platforms, ensuring stability and performance.
• Drive best practices for data engineering, observability, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate across technology teams to solve complex data challenges and improve platform capabilities.

Skills

ETL & data integration

Relational databases & SQL

SQL performance tuning

Production systems experience

Cross-team collaboration

Analytical problem-solving

Tools

Oracle ODI

Oracle DB

AWS Redshift

Splunk

Datadog

CloudWatch

Terraform

DMS

S3

Spark

Python

Glue

EMR

Job description

Raymond James is seeking a highly skilled Lead Data Engineer to join our Enterprise Data team. You will design, build, and optimize enterprise-scale data integration solutions powering critical wealth management platforms across the organization.

As a technical leader, you will collaborate with data engineers, architects, and application teams to deliver scalable, real-time and batch data solutions while upholding reliability and operational excellence.