Senior Data Architect & Strategy Leader

Fifth Third Bank, National Association; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Fifth Third Bank seeks a Principal Data Engineer to design and scale data platforms across on-prem and cloud environments. You will lead end-to-end data solutions, mentor teams, and advance governance, security, and AI-ready architectures.

Based in Cincinnati, OH, you will collaborate with IT, architecture, and business units to deliver trusted data assets. The role emphasizes fostering technical leadership, improving productivity, and driving strategic initiatives within a risk-aware banking

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• 8+ years of related experience including hands-on software development or data engineering.
• Proficiency in SQL, query optimization, joins, window functions, and analytical queries.

Responsibilities

• Design, development, and support of scalable data solutions, APIs, tools, and processes for fast delivery of business capabilities across data platforms.
• Collaborate with IT, Enterprise Architecture, infrastructure, information security, and stakeholders to translate strategies into data-driven solutions.
• Act as a principal technical expert addressing complex problems in system design, performance, security, and delivery.
• Lead ownership of data solutions across their lifecycle, defining and driving engineering standards.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Distributed computing

Data engineering

Cloud computing

Security awareness

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

IBM DB2

IBM InfoServer/DataStage

Kafka

REST APIs

CI/CD tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Fifth Third Bank seeks a Principal Data Engineer to design and scale data platforms across on-prem and cloud environments. You will lead end-to-end data solutions, mentor teams, and advance governance, security, and AI-ready architectures.

Based in Cincinnati, OH, you will collaborate with IT, architecture, and business units to deliver trusted data assets. The role emphasizes fostering technical leadership, improving productivity, and driving strategic initiatives within a risk-aware banking