Lead Data Engineer
Bradesco Bank · Coral Gables, Florida, United States
FULL TIMEpermanent
Job Description
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Position Overview:The Lead Data Engineer turns business and domain needs into secure, observable, reusable, and documented pipelines. The role combines hands-on technical leadership, portfolio delivery, consultant coordination, engineering standards, and stakeholder engagement in a regulated bank.
Key Responsibilities :
Portfolio & Delivery Leadership Own integrated delivery for 4-6 concurrent projects, balancing priorities, dependencies, capacity, risks, and production commitments, working under a scaled agile framework. Turn transformation needs into technical scope, milestones, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes. Provide portfolio visibility through dashboards, risk logs, dependency tracking, and escalation. Ensure releases meet change, security, testing, documentation, and production-readiness requirements.
Team & Consultant CoordinationDirect an 8-12 person consultant team through work allocation, onboarding, delivery follow-up, and quality review. Set an accountable rhythm with backlog refinement, design and code reviews, stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives. Build capability through reusable patterns, playbooks, pairing, coaching, and knowledge transfer. Partner with vendor and bank leaders to manage capacity, capability, performance, continuity, and key-person risks.
Governed Pipeline Engineering Lead governed batch and data product-driven pipelines across banking domains, from ingestion to consumption. Embed ownership, metadata, lineage, classification, access, retention, quality, reconciliation, monitoring, alerts, and audit evidence. Standardize reusable templates, naming, testing, runbooks, and delivery controls. Handle sensitive and regulated data under approved security, privacy, and least-privilege controls.
On-Premises Platform Execution Guide solutions using NiFi for ingestion, Airflow for orchestration, dbt for transformation and testing, and SQL for processing and validation. Improve pipeline stability through modular design, automated tests, version control, disciplined deployment, observability, and incident follow-up. Prioritize technical debt by business criticality, operational risk, migration value, and delivery impact.
Cloud Transition & Re-Engineering Follow the AWS and Databricks operating model in line with architecture, security, governance, networking, and compliance standards. Lead cloud-native pipeline delivery and phased re-engineering of on-premises pipelines. Redesign and remodeling instead of lifting and shifting when it improves scale, reliability, cost transparency, reuse, lineage, or supportability. Define migration waves, readiness, parallel runs, reconciliation, cutover, rollback, and decommissioning.
Stakeholder & Domain Partnership Align delivery with business and data owners, stewards, architects, security, infrastructure, risk, compliance, and operations. Lead cross-domain requirements and design discussions, resolving ambiguity and clarifying trade-offs. Explain decisions, delivery health, risks, and business impact to technical and executive audiences.
Required Qualifications 8+ years in data engineering, platform delivery, analytics engineering, or a related field, including 3+ years in technical or delivery leadership. Experience coordinating parallel projects and distributed or consulting teams in complex enterprises. Strong SQL expertise and practical experience with NiFi, Airflow, dbt, or comparable tools. Experience building production pipelines with automated tests, quality controls, monitoring, lineage, documentation, and support. Working knowledge of AWS and Databricks architecture, lakehouse patterns, security, deployment, and migration. Experience in regulated financial services or another control-intensive environment. Strong English communication, planning, problem-solving, and stakeholder management; Portuguese or Spanish is a plus.
Preferred Qualifications Experience with Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Databricks Workflows, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and cloud observability. Knowledge of AWS data-platform services, including S3, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, and private networking. Experience with catalogs, metadata, lineage, data quality, and DataOps or DataSecOps. Familiarity with dimensional modeling, data vault, medallion/lakehouse, streaming, and data products. Relevant AWS, Databricks, data engineering, or agile delivery certifications.
Bradesco Bank provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. xzbcwsv
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Do you have the following skills, experience and drive to succeed in this role Find out below.
Position Overview:The Lead Data Engineer turns business and domain needs into secure, observable, reusable, and documented pipelines. The role combines hands-on technical leadership, portfolio delivery, consultant coordination, engineering standards, and stakeholder engagement in a regulated bank.
Key Responsibilities :
Portfolio & Delivery Leadership Own integrated delivery for 4-6 concurrent projects, balancing priorities, dependencies, capacity, risks, and production commitments, working under a scaled agile framework. Turn transformation needs into technical scope, milestones, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes. Provide portfolio visibility through dashboards, risk logs, dependency tracking, and escalation. Ensure releases meet change, security, testing, documentation, and production-readiness requirements.
Team & Consultant CoordinationDirect an 8-12 person consultant team through work allocation, onboarding, delivery follow-up, and quality review. Set an accountable rhythm with backlog refinement, design and code reviews, stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives. Build capability through reusable patterns, playbooks, pairing, coaching, and knowledge transfer. Partner with vendor and bank leaders to manage capacity, capability, performance, continuity, and key-person risks.
Governed Pipeline Engineering Lead governed batch and data product-driven pipelines across banking domains, from ingestion to consumption. Embed ownership, metadata, lineage, classification, access, retention, quality, reconciliation, monitoring, alerts, and audit evidence. Standardize reusable templates, naming, testing, runbooks, and delivery controls. Handle sensitive and regulated data under approved security, privacy, and least-privilege controls.
On-Premises Platform Execution Guide solutions using NiFi for ingestion, Airflow for orchestration, dbt for transformation and testing, and SQL for processing and validation. Improve pipeline stability through modular design, automated tests, version control, disciplined deployment, observability, and incident follow-up. Prioritize technical debt by business criticality, operational risk, migration value, and delivery impact.
Cloud Transition & Re-Engineering Follow the AWS and Databricks operating model in line with architecture, security, governance, networking, and compliance standards. Lead cloud-native pipeline delivery and phased re-engineering of on-premises pipelines. Redesign and remodeling instead of lifting and shifting when it improves scale, reliability, cost transparency, reuse, lineage, or supportability. Define migration waves, readiness, parallel runs, reconciliation, cutover, rollback, and decommissioning.
Stakeholder & Domain Partnership Align delivery with business and data owners, stewards, architects, security, infrastructure, risk, compliance, and operations. Lead cross-domain requirements and design discussions, resolving ambiguity and clarifying trade-offs. Explain decisions, delivery health, risks, and business impact to technical and executive audiences.
Required Qualifications 8+ years in data engineering, platform delivery, analytics engineering, or a related field, including 3+ years in technical or delivery leadership. Experience coordinating parallel projects and distributed or consulting teams in complex enterprises. Strong SQL expertise and practical experience with NiFi, Airflow, dbt, or comparable tools. Experience building production pipelines with automated tests, quality controls, monitoring, lineage, documentation, and support. Working knowledge of AWS and Databricks architecture, lakehouse patterns, security, deployment, and migration. Experience in regulated financial services or another control-intensive environment. Strong English communication, planning, problem-solving, and stakeholder management; Portuguese or Spanish is a plus.
Preferred Qualifications Experience with Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Databricks Workflows, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and cloud observability. Knowledge of AWS data-platform services, including S3, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, and private networking. Experience with catalogs, metadata, lineage, data quality, and DataOps or DataSecOps. Familiarity with dimensional modeling, data vault, medallion/lakehouse, streaming, and data products. Relevant AWS, Databricks, data engineering, or agile delivery certifications.
Bradesco Bank provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. xzbcwsv
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Details
| Company | Bradesco Bank |
| Location | Coral Gables, Florida, United States |
| Type | FULL TIME |
| Niche | finance |
| Experience | permanent |