Senior Risk Data Architect & Engineer - Cloud Platform

Lincoln Financial; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO/ parental leave

401K

Tuition assistance

Free financial counseling

Health coaching

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Lincoln Financial is seeking a Senior Lead Risk Data Engineer and Architect to design production-grade data platforms for risk analytics, cloud-native pipelines on AWS and Databricks, and data governance across risk domains.

You will own technical roadmaps, mentor teams, and collaborate with risk analysts and researchers to modernize data flows while ensuring security and compliance in a hybrid work setting at our Radnor PA office.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of data engineering experience with cloud and on-premise platforms.
• Production experience with MySQL and SQL Server, data integrity and performance tuning.
• Strong SQL, Python, YAML and Bash proficiency; SDLC/DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of data governance, cataloging, lineage and compliance controls.
• AWS certifications or Databricks certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Architect cloud-native data solutions using AWS and Databricks to support risk analytics.
• Build and optimize data pipelines using Python, PySpark and SQL.
• Migrate legacy systems to the cloud with minimal disruption to business services.
• Implement data governance, cataloging, lineage and quality monitoring.
• Collaborate with data scientists, risk managers and stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Develop production-grade code with DevOps practices and CI/CD.
• Manage relational databases (MySQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, Redshift) for performance and integrity.
• Mentor technical standards and architectural decisions across the organization.
• Monitor production systems with observability and proactive tuning.

Skills

SQL

Python

YAML

Bash

DevOps

SDLC

Communication

Data governance

AWS knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Databricks

AWS services

Redshift

S3

Glue

Job description

Lincoln Financial is seeking a Senior Lead Risk Data Engineer and Architect to design production-grade data platforms for risk analytics, cloud-native pipelines on AWS and Databricks, and data governance across risk domains.

You will own technical roadmaps, mentor teams, and collaborate with risk analysts and researchers to modernize data flows while ensuring security and compliance in a hybrid work setting at our Radnor PA office.