Lead Data Engineer

Denver, CO - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 5 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title- Lead Data Engineer

Location- Denver CO

We are seeking a **Data Catalog & Governance Specialist** to support our **Send Money / Payments platform** ensuring robust metadata management data lineage visibility and regulatory-grade governance across transactional and customer data domains.

This role is critical in establishing transparency and trust across payment flows customer onboarding data compliance datasets (KYC/AML) and reporting pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

Configure and administer enterprise **data catalog platforms** to support payment and transaction data domains
Define and manage **business and technical metadata** for:
Transaction data
Customer/KYC data
Beneficiary and wallet data
Payment status and settlement data
Establish and maintain **end-to-end data lineage** across:
Send Money application
Middleware/API layers
Data warehouse and reporting systems
Partner with data engineering teams to monitor and document **ETL/ELT pipelines** supporting payment processing
Perform and document **data quality assessments** for critical financial datasets
Define and enforce **data governance policies** including:
Data classification (PII financial data sensitive fields)
Access control and role-based permissions
Retention and audit requirements
Support regulatory and compliance needs (AML audit trails transaction monitoring)
Drive enterprise-wide adoption of the data catalog across business risk compliance and engineering teams
Lead metadata onboarding workshops and training sessions

Required Skills & Experience

Hands-on experience with **data catalog and metadata management tools** (e.g. Collibra Alation Informatica EDC Microsoft Purview Atlan etc.)
Strong understanding of:
Data modeling (transactional and analytical models)
Data lineage and impact analysis
Data quality frameworks and monitoring
ETL/ELT processes in financial systems
Experience working with **transaction-heavy systems or payment platforms**
Proficiency in **SQL** and familiarity with **Python scripting**
Understanding of data privacy and financial regulatory controls

* Experience supporting audit and compliance reporting

Preferred (Highly Desirable)

Experience in **FinTech Digital Banking or Payments domain**
Exposure to Send Money / Remittance / Wallet-based applications
Familiarity with KYC AML fraud detection and transaction monitoring data flows
Experience working with cloud data platforms (Snowflake Azure AWS etc.)

Soft Skills

Strong stakeholder communication across product risk compliance and engineering
Ability to translate technical metadata into business-understandable definitions
Strong organizational and documentation discipline
Experience driving data governance adoption initiatives
Ability to operate in a regulated high-availability environment

Pi-square technologies is a Michigan (USA) Headquartered Automotive Embedded Engineering Services company Synergy Partner for major OEMs and Tier 1s and their implementation partners in Automotive Embedded Product Development Projects Requirements Analysis Software Design Software Implementation Efficient Build Release Process and turnkey software V & V Services. We have more than 20 years of industry expertise with specialization in the latest cutting-edge automotive technologies such as Infotainment connected vehicles Cyber security OTA and Advanced Safety/ Body electronics.

Job Title- Lead Data Engineer Location- Denver CO We are seeking a **Data Catalog & Governance Specialist** to support our **Send Money / Payments platform** ensuring robust metadata management data lineage visibility and regulatory-grade governance across transactional and customer data domains. Th...