Lead data engineer
Summary
Lead a team to modernize and optimize data pipelines for BMO’s financial platforms, migrating legacy ETL systems to AWS-native solutions while ensuring performance, scalability, and governance.
We are seeking a Lead Data Engineer with strong ETL and application expertise to lead the enhancement of existing ETL applications and design modern ETL/ELT pipelines as part of application redesign and migration to AWS. This role requires hands‑on technical leadership, strong data engineering fundamentals, experience in Agile delivery models, proficiency with Jira for planning, tracking, and execution, and the ability to guide teams through cloud‑based data transformations while ensuring stability of current platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the support, enhancement, and optimization of existing Ab Initio ETL applications
- Analyze current ETL frameworks and recommend performance, scalability, and reliability improvements
- Ensure adherence to enterprise data engineering standards, coding best practices, and governance
- Drive defect resolution, root cause analysis, and proactive optimization
AWS Data Platform Design & Modernization
- Architect and design ETL/ELT pipelines in AWS for redesigning existing on‑prem or legacy ETL applications
- Lead migration and modernization initiatives from Ab Initio/on‑prem platforms to AWS‑native solutions
- Design scalable data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration patterns using AWS services
- Evaluate and implement cost‑effective, performant cloud solutions aligned with business needs
Agile Delivery & Team Leadership
- Work in an Agile/Scrum or SAFe environment, actively participating in sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand‑ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Architects, QA, and DevOps teams
- Break down complex data engineering work into Jira epics, stories, and tasks
- Provide accurate estimations, track progress, and manage dependencies using Jira
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, ensuring high‑quality and timely delivery
Required Skills & Qualifications
Experience & Education
- Typically between 5-7 years of relevant experience in data engineering, ETL development, and/or data platform design
- Post‑secondary degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
Core Technical Skills
- Strong hands‑on experience with Ab Initio
- GDE, metadata management
- Graph performance tuning and complex data transformations
- AWS Data Engineering Expertise
- Services such as S3, Glue, Redshift, Lambda
- Experience designing ETL/ELT architectures in cloud
- Strong SQL and data modeling skills (dimensional & analytical models)
- Experience with large‑scale batch data processing and data warehousing
Engineering & Delivery
- Strong experience with data pipeline orchestration and scheduling
- CI/CD knowledge (Ansible, Artifactory, GitHub Actions, or similar)
- Familiarity with data quality, reconciliation, and controls
- Solid understanding of security, IAM, and data governance in AWS
Soft Skills
- Proven technical leadership and mentoring capabilities
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment
Nice to Have
- Experience with Business Intelligence tools like Business Objects, PowerBI, Axiom
- Experience in financial services, regulatory, or risk data platforms
- Experience with modernization or sunset of legacy ETL platforms
Salaire : $75,900.00 - $141,900.00
Type de rémunération : Salaire
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