IT Lead Data Engineer

**Job Summary:** The Lead Data Engineer is expected to be an expert at effectively working with business partners to understand their data needs and develop technical designs and requirements to meet those needs. This role is the team leader in helping extract, transform, and store the Firm’s valuable data assets to achieve better operational efficiencies and provide better services to its clients through modern data movement pipelines. This role, in collaboration with other data engineers, data architects, and other IT teams, will operationalize and document data extraction and ingestion platforms. This role is the team’s leader for developing strategies, policies, and governance models to ensure the Firm’s data remains accurate, timely and relevant to the Firm’s goals. This role will provide guidance and mentorship to junior data engineers, as well as helping delegate work items and tickets across the Data Engineering team. **Job Duties:** * Works with stakeholders and data architects to define and design data solutions to support the Firm’s data initiatives * Understands and locates where data assets exist within the Firm’s systems and design solutions integrating disparate data sources to solve problems and provide business value * Collaborates with project managers to provide effort estimates and provides technical leadership in solution design and requirements * Works closely with data governance to ensure principles are followed through the course of day\-to\-day data usage and solution design * Prepares mock\-up solution designs, visualizations and reports to effectively demonstrate proposed solutions and deliverables * Acts as a subject matter expert, evangelist and catalyst to educate on the Firm’s data platforms and best practices as they relate to the usage and hygiene of the Firm’s data assets * Meets regularly with business line customers to gain a better understanding of their business processes and of the customer's evolving data needs to help id