Senior Data Engineer: Fintech Data Platform Lead

Sapient Search Group; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Sapient Search Group is partnering with a fast-growing US fintech to hire a Senior Data Engineer who will own the data platform behind banking and payments products. You will design, build, and operate production ETL/ELT pipelines on an AWS lakehouse, ensuring data quality, observability, and scalable performance.

You’ll work across Engineering, Product, Finance, Risk, and Operations to reconcile data, migrate systems, and preserve historical data during migrations while maintaining accurate

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on data engineering in production environments.
• Strong AWS, SQL, Python, and data modeling skills.
• Experience designing and operating production ETL/ELT pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the data platform behind banking and payments products.
• Build, optimize, and monitor ETL/ELT pipelines with large transactional data.
• Ensure data quality, observability, and reliable data delivery across teams.
• Support migrations, data mapping, and preservation of historical data.

Skills

5+ years data eng

AWS

SQL

Python

Data modeling

ETL/ELT pipelines

Job description

Sapient Search Group is partnering with a fast-growing US fintech to hire a Senior Data Engineer who will own the data platform behind banking and payments products. You will design, build, and operate production ETL/ELT pipelines on an AWS lakehouse, ensuring data quality, observability, and scalable performance.

You’ll work across Engineering, Product, Finance, Risk, and Operations to reconcile data, migrate systems, and preserve historical data during migrations while maintaining accurate