Starburst Data Federation Lead Engineer

Citi; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 114,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi seeks an Application Development Lead in Tampa, FL, to drive data federation initiatives using Starburst, Trino, and Iceberg. You will own onboarding of data catalogs, define licensing and governance standards, and implement centralized access controls while collaborating with data stewards and engineering teams.

Strong experience in distributed systems, CI/CD, cloud platforms, and API security is required.

Qualifications

• 2+ years hands-on with Starburst Data Federation and Virtualization.
• Deep understanding of Trino architecture and Iceberg.
• 6+ years in application development and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Interface between analytical consumers and data owners.
• Lead onboarding of new data catalogs in Starburst with native connectors.
• Set operational guidelines to prevent performance issues on transactional DBs.
• Collaborate on data glossaries, lineage, and data classification tags.
• Implement RBAC and Row-Level Filters in Apache Ranger.
• Define onboarding standards for Hive/Iceberg formats and stats collection.
• Tune pushdown capabilities for federation performance.
• Forecast capacity and optimize cluster throughput with materialization.
• Partner with teams to publish reusable Data Products using Starburst and open formats.
• Integrate data products with catalogs, governance marketplaces, and BI tools.

Skills

Starburst Data Federation

Trino architecture

Apache Ranger RBAC

Hive/Iceberg

SQL & NoSQL databases

RESTful APIs

CI/CD tooling

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Kubernetes & Docker

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Bitbucket Pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

Spark

Hadoop

Kafka

Oracle

MongoDB

Trino

Job description

Citi seeks an Application Development Lead in Tampa, FL, to drive data federation initiatives using Starburst, Trino, and Iceberg. You will own onboarding of data catalogs, define licensing and governance standards, and implement centralized access controls while collaborating with data stewards and engineering teams.

Strong experience in distributed systems, CI/CD, cloud platforms, and API security is required.