Senior Data Pipeline Architect with AI‑Enabled Analytics

Citi; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model (3 days in office, 2

Professional development support

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Citi is seeking a Data Analytics Lead Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable data pipelines and cloud-based architectures for Lending (Mortgage and Personal Loans). This hands-on role focuses on production-grade data systems across big data platforms, data lakes, and cloud infrastructure, with AI/ML integration as an added capability.

You will work with BAs, Data Engineers, and Governance teams to deliver reliable data solutions and improve analytics at scale, while ensuring data

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on experience building and managing data pipelines, data warehouses, and data lake solutions.
• Cloud data platforms experience (Snowflake, Cloudera) for ETL and ingestion workflows.
• Fluency in Python, Scala, or Shell scripting for engineering tasks.
• Strong understanding of relational and non-relational data stores and data modeling.
• Experience with workflow scheduling tools like Autosys or Airflow.
• DevOps practices including version control, testing, and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and manage end-to-end data pipelines for large lending datasets.
• Design scalable cloud data architectures with data lakes, warehouses, and streaming components.
• Architect data schemas to meet performance and scalability needs.
• Write and optimize complex SQL queries for big data workloads.
• Monitor data quality and pipeline reliability end-to-end.
• Apply AI/ML techniques to accelerate core data engineering tasks where appropriate.

Skills

Data pipelines

Cloud platforms

SQL queries

Python/Scala scripting

Data modeling

Workflow orchestration

DevOps practices

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Hadoop

Apache Spark / PySpark

Databricks

Delta Lake

Hive / Impala / Iceberg

Snowflake / Cloudera

Tableau / Cognos

Autosys / Airflow

Job description

Citi is seeking a Data Analytics Lead Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable data pipelines and cloud-based architectures for Lending (Mortgage and Personal Loans). This hands-on role focuses on production-grade data systems across big data platforms, data lakes, and cloud infrastructure, with AI/ML integration as an added capability.

You will work with BAs, Data Engineers, and Governance teams to deliver reliable data solutions and improve analytics at scale, while ensuring data