Lead - Data Engineer

Job Purpose

The role incumbent will be responsible for independently managing and driving key technology projects relating to Data Management & Governance, business change requests and technology initiatives for key systems. Create Data Technology Road Map that enables solid enterprise data strategy. Incumbent shall be self-driven and will work independently with stakeholders across departments. The incumbent will also be owning technology innovations, performance improvements and compliance activities.

Role

• Understand the business requirement & challenges and convert them into solution design and ensure implementation
• Knowledge of data warehousing and ETL methodology making use of cloud-based technologies like AWS and ONPREM technologies like YARN, Spark and Pyspark
• Strong experience in building modern data warehouse including structured and unstructured data
• Experience in data quality identification and implementation of data governance principles
• Ensure and publish progress of key projects periodically.
• Knowledge of end-to-end loan origination, maintenance, and servicing, with loan accounting, recon and related processes
• Coordinate with the vendors and in house teams for prioritization, planning, delivery, and deployment
• Perform sanity testing, issue reporting and tracking.
• Handle audit and compliance activities for the systems.
• Track agreed SLAs with vendors, process vendor invoices.
• Identify gaps and opportunities for increasing process and operational efficiency with measurable outcomes.

Qualification & experience

• Years of experience: 7-10 years of experience
• Good experience in of Application Management, LOS, LMS, Data Management, AWS, Kafka, Databases like Postgres, Oracle, Snowflake. Good to have, not mandatory – MBA

Essential skills

• Solution Architect with ability to independently manage and execute data projects end to end, requirement analysis, mapping requirements to system solutioning, vendor management. analysis of issues and providing resolutions.
• Exposure to lending systems and domain will be an advantage
• Technology skills - Databases, API, client server architecture

Ideal candidate (in terms of current role/ organization/ industry)

• An individual inclined to learn and explore new technologies and utilise the best out of the resources in hand.
• Able to influence and work in a collaborative manner
• Preferably from Banking/Financial services industry