Lead Test Data Management Engineer

Huntington Bank; Columbus (OH); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Huntington Bank seeks a Lead Test Data Management Engineer to translate our TDM strategy into operational capabilities across architecture, governance, and delivery teams. You will drive design, implementation, and adoption of enterprise test data services that reduce production data exposure and accelerate pilot delivery.

The role combines technical leadership with hands-on engineering to establish scalable TDM capabilities, reusable data patterns, and governance practices across testing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years of related experience (or an additional 4 years in lieu of degree).
• Experience designing and implementing technology or data solutions.
• Strong knowledge of test data management, synthetic data, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to eliminate production data usage in non-production environments.
• Design and implement synthetic data generation and test data provisioning solutions.
• Build reusable automation, data pipelines, engineering patterns, and accelerators.
• Integrate TDM capabilities with testing, quality engineering, and CI/CD processes.
• Partner with application teams to onboard use cases and validate solutions.
• Evaluate and implement tooling to improve test data quality, availability, and efficiency.

Skills

Technical leadership

Solution design

Data engineering

CI/CD integration

Synthetic data

Automation design

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Databases

APIs

Data pipelines

CI/CD tools

Job description

Description The Lead Test Data Management Engineer is responsible for translating Huntington's Test Data Management (TDM) strategy into operational capabilities. This role serves as the bridge between architecture, engineering, governance, and delivery teams, driving the design, implementation, and adoption of enterprise test data capabilities that reduce reliance on production data in lower environments. The position combines technical leadership, solution design, and hands-on engineering expertise to establish repeatable test data services, accelerate pilot delivery, and create the foundation for a scalable Test Data Management capability.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree 5+ years of related experience or an additional 4 years of related work experience may be considered in lieu of the Bachelor's Degree

Platform & Capability Leadership

Partner in defining the TDM roadmap and engineering priorities while providing technical leadership for implementation.

Engineering & Solution Delivery

• Identify opportunities to eliminate production data usage in non-production environments.
• Provide analysis and recommendations for build-vs-buy evaluations, technology tradeoffs, and implementation decisions.
• Design and implement synthetic data generation and test data provisioning solutions.
• Build reusable automation, data pipelines, engineering patterns, and accelerators.
• Integrate TDM capabilities with testing, quality engineering, and CI/CD processes.
• Partner with application teams to onboard use cases and validate solutions.
• Evaluate and implement tooling to improve test data quality, availability, and efficiency.
• Maintain deep technical expertise in TDM tools, synthetic data technologies, and supporting platforms.

Test Data Lifecycle Management

• Define and operationalize end-to-end test data lifecycle processes.
• Establish repeatable provisioning, refresh, archival, and retirement patterns.
• Define service models for requesting, generating, delivering, and maintaining test data.

Data Quality, Reuse & Governance

• Establish reusable synthetic data patterns and data asset libraries.
• Develop standards for referential integrity and realistic test data creation.
• Define validation approaches to ensure synthetic data is fit for purpose.
• Measure and report progress toward reducing or eliminating production data usage.

Adoption & Organizational Enablement

• Support onboarding, training, and adoption activities across technology teams.
• Monitor emerging industry trends and recommend improvements to Huntington's TDM capabilities.
• Establish reusable engineering patterns and operational processes that support future scalability.

Additional Experience

• Experience designing and implementing technology or data solutions.
• Experience with databases, APIs, data pipelines, automation frameworks, and software delivery practices.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Experience with synthetic data generation, masking, tokenization, virtualization, or privacy-preserving data techniques.
• Experience implementing automated test data provisioning solutions.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery models, DevOps practices, and CI/CD integration.
• Experience evaluating and implementing technology platforms and vendor solutions.
• Strong understanding of data governance, risk management, compliance, and information security principles.
• Experience supporting large-scale application development and testing environments.
• Ability to balance strategic planning with hands-on technical execution.

Exempt Status

(Yes = not eligible for overtime pay) (No = eligible for overtime pay) Yes

Workplace Type

Office

Our Approach to Office Workplace Type Certain positions outside our branch network may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement. We’re combining the best of both worlds: in-office and work from home. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. Remote roles will also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for moments that matter. Specific work arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.

About Huntington

Welcome to Huntington! At Huntington, we look out for people. From reinventing banking with game-changing innovations to building an internal culture that creates lifelong bonds, together, we can make people’s lives better. And amazing things happen when we look out for each other. We prove it every day. Whether it’s helping a colleague or collaborating on a new tool that will revolutionize the way people save money, our actions can have a huge impact. Our colleagues look out for people with a Can-Do Attitude, Service Heart and Forward Thinking. Those are our values—simple but powerful. Each of them pushes us do the right thing, to do right by people. Because people are what matter. If that sounds like you, we hope you’ll apply to join our team. If you’d like to learn more about how Huntington looks out for people, visit https://www.huntington.com/lookingout We endeavor to make this site accessible to any and all users.

Reasonable Accommodations

Various methods will be used throughout the recruitment process to verify candidate authenticity. Any interviews conducted virtually must be joined from a distraction-free environment, with the candidate on camera and without the use of virtual backgrounds.

Please send an email to [e-mail]