Lead Data Engineer

FC Global Services India LLP (First Citizens India), a part of First Citizens BancShares, Inc., a top 20 U.S. financial institution, is a global capability center (GCC) based in Bengaluru. Our India-based teams benefit from the company’s over 125-year legacy of strength and stability. First Citizens India is responsible for delivering value and managing risks for our lines of business. We are particularly proud of our strong, relationship-driven culture and our long-term approach, which are deeply ingrained in our talented workforce. This is evident across all key areas of our operations, including Technology, Enterprise Operations, Finance, Cybersecurity, Risk Management, and Credit Administration. We are seeking talented individuals to join us in our mission of providing solutions fit for our clients’ greatest ambitions.

Job Description:

Value Preposition

• Lead the development and maintenance of large-scale data platforms, data lakes and cloud solutions.
• Responsible for designing and building data pipelines for enterprise data through ETL/ELT processes.

Job Details

Position Title:  Lead Data Engineer

Career Level:  P3

Job Category: Manager

Role Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Bangalore  

About the Team:

The data engineering team is community of dedicated professionals committed to designing, building, and maintaining data platform solutions for the organization.

Impact (Job Summary/Why this Role Matters)

Enterprise data warehouse supports several critical business functions for the bank including Regulatory Reporting, Finance, Risk steering, and Customer 360. This role is vital for building and maintaining enterprise data platform, data processes, and to support business objectives. Our values — inclusivity, transparency, and excellence — drive everything we do. Join us and make a meaningful impact on the organization.

Key Deliverables (Duties and Responsibilities)

• Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining data platform that supports data integrations for Enterprise Data Warehouse, Operational Data Store or Data Marts etc. with appropriate data access, data security, data privacy and data governance.
• Establish enterprise-scale data integration procedures, data pipelines and frameworks across the data development life cycle. Suggest and implement appropriate technologies to deliver resilient, scalable, and future-proof data solutions.
• Create data ingestion pipelines in data warehouses and other large-scale data platforms.
• Creating scheduled as well as trigger-based ingestion patterns using scheduling tools.
• Create performance optimized DDLs for any row-based or columnar databases such as Oracle, Postgres, Netezza database per Logical Data Model.
• Performance tuning of complex data pipelines and SQL queries.
• Performs impact analysis of proposed changes on existing architecture, capabilities, system priorities, and technology solutions.
• Manage deliverables of developers, perform design reviews and coordinate release management activities.
• Estimate and provide timelines for project activities. Identify, document, and communicate technical risks, issues and alternative solutions discovered during project.
• Drive automation, identify inefficiencies, optimize processes and data flows, and recommend improvements.
• Use agile engineering practices and various data development technologies to rapidly develop and implement efficient data products.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to understand PI goals, PI planning, requirement clarification, and delivery coordination.
• Technical support for production incidents and failures
• Work with global technology teams across different time zones (primarily US) to deliver timely business value.

Skills and Qualification (Functional and Technical Skills)

Functional Skills:

• Team Player: Support peers, team, and department management.
• Communication: Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Problem Solving: Excellent problem-solving skills, incident management, root cause analysis, and proactive solutions to improve quality.
• Partnership and Collaboration: Develop and maintain partnership with business and IT stakeholders
• Attention to Detail: Ensure accuracy and thoroughness in all tasks.

Technical/Business Skills:

• Data Engineering:
  • Experience in designing and building Data Warehouse and Data lakes. Good knowledge of data warehouse principles, and concepts.
  • Technical expertise working in large scale Data Warehousing applications and databases such as Oracle, Netezza, Teradata, and SQL Server.
  • Experience with public cloud-based data platforms especially Snowflake and AWS.
• Data integration skills:
  • Expertise in design and development of complex data pipelines
  • Solutions using any industry leading ETL tools such as SAP Business Objects Data Services (BODS), Informatica Cloud Data Integration Services (IICS), IBM Data Stage.
  • Experience of ELT tools such as DBT, Fivetran, and AWS Glue
• Expert in SQL - development experience in at least one scripting language (Python etc.), adept in tracing and resolving data integrity issues.
• Strong knowledge of data architecture, data design patterns, modeling, and cloud data solutions (Snowflake, AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery).
• Data Model: Expertise in Logical and Physical Data Model using Relational or Dimensional Modeling practices, high volume ETL/ELT processes.
• Performance tuning of data pipelines and DB Objects to deliver optimal performance.
• Experience in Gitlab version control and CI/CD processes.
• Experience working in Financial Industry is a plus.

Relationships & Collaboration

• Reports to: Associate Director - Data Engineering
• Partners: Senior leaders and cross-functional teams
• Leads: A team of Data Engineering associates

Accessibility Needs

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring process. If you require accommodations at any stage (e.g. application, interviews, onboarding) please let us know, and we will work with you to ensure a seamless experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity

FC Global Services India LLP (First Citizens India) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible environment and prohibit all forms of discrimination on the basis of gender, religion, caste, disability, sexual orientation, economic status or any other characteristics protected by the law. We strive to foster a safe and respectful environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Our EEO policy ensures fairness throughout the employee life cycle.