Technical Lead, Data

Company:

Marsh Corporate

Description:

This is a hands-on leadership role. You lead a squad of data engineers and you also build things yourself. Youre the person who can whiteboard a data model in the morning pair with an engineer on a tricky pipeline in the afternoon and present a delivery plan to a business stakeholder before end of day. You dont just point; you drive.

Youll own technical delivery for priority initiatives within Marshs Innovation & Data Office (IDO). Your first assignment will likely be in one of our Mercer businesses (Wealth or Careers) but the expectation is fungibility not permanent domain alignment. As IDOs priorities evolve so will yours. The constant is the quality of your engineering leadership not the label on the work. Your squad will be a mix of employees and contractors and youll be responsible for making that team perform as a unit: setting standards unblocking problems mentoring engineers and holding the bar on quality. The work lands in Databricks. The outcomes land in the business.

The key distinction: This is not a people-management role that happens to involve data. Its a hands-on technical leadership role where managing people is one of the things you do alongside designing architecture writing code reviewing PRs and solving hard data problems. If your last few years have been spent in meetings about data rather than working with data this isnt the right fit.

Technical Lead Data

We will count on you to:

• Lead a delivery squad. Youll run a pod of 4-8 data engineers (employees and contractors) assembled against a business outcome. You set the technical direction decompose work manage sprint-level execution and are accountable for what the squad ships. When the initiative concludes or transitions to steady state you and your engineers move to the next priority.

• Build with your hands. You write code. You build pipelines. You debug production issues. Youre comfortable in SQL Python and Spark and you use them regularly not as a party trick but as your primary tools. When something is broken or behind you can step in and do the work not just escalate it.

• Design before you build. You think in terms of data models medallion architectures ingestion contracts and reusable patterns. You design solutions that are maintainable and that the next engineer can understand without an archaeology expedition. You care about schema evolution data quality checks idempotency and lineage not because someone told you to but because youve been burned when those things were missing.

• Engage with the business. Youre not building pipelines into a void. Youll work directly with Engagement Leads and business stakeholders to understand what they need why they need it and what done looks like. You translate business problems into data solutions and push back when whats being asked for doesnt make technical sense. Youre comfortable in a room with non-technical leaders and can explain complexity without hiding behind jargon.

• Drive engineering standards. CI/CD version control testing code review documentation: these arent aspirational for you theyre how youve always worked. Youll bring these practices to your squad and raise the bar for everyone around you. You care about developer experience and operational excellence not just feature delivery.

• Operate on a modern stack. The platform is Databricks (Unity Catalog Delta Lake Spark medallion architecture) running on AWS and Azure. Youll work with infrastructure-as-code Git-based workflows and pipeline orchestration tooling. If youve spent the last several years in the Databricks ecosystem great. If youve built equivalent capabilities on other modern platforms and can ramp quickly that works too.

What you need to have:

• 5 years of hands-on data engineering experience with at least some time leading or mentoring other engineers

• Strong proficiency in SQL Python and Spark used recently and regularly not years ago

• Real experience with cloud data platforms (Databricks strongly preferred; Snowflake Synapse or similar accepted) on AWS Azure or GCP

• Demonstrated ability to lead a mixed team of employees and contractors: setting expectations managing performance building cohesion across employment types

• Fluency with modern engineering practices: Git CI/CD automated testing infrastructure-as-code DataOps

• The instinct to understand why something is being built not just how. Intellectual curiosity about the business domain youre working in

• Clear communication skills; you can explain a technical tradeoff to a business leader and a business requirement to an engineer with equal ease

What makes you stand out:

• Experience with Databricks specifically: Unity Catalog Delta Lake medallion architecture Databricks workflows

• Experience with dbt or similar transformation frameworks

• Familiarity with data governance patterns: lineage access controls metadata management data quality frameworks

• Prior work in financial services insurance benefits or consulting environments

• Experience with document or unstructured data ingestion pipelines

• Exposure to LLM-based tooling AI-assisted development or analytics engineering

What success looks like:

• Your squad ships. Pipelines go to production. Data lands in silver and gold. Business users consume it. Youre measured by outcomes delivered not activity performed.

• Your engineers grow. People on your team get better technically and professionally. Contractors ramp fast because youve built clear standards and onboarding patterns.

• Each initiative leaves things better than it found them. Reusable assets (curated datasets documented schemas tested pipelines) accumulate so the next project starts from a stronger baseline regardless of domain.

• Business stakeholders trust you. They come to you not just for status updates but for advice on whats possible and whats worth doing. Youve earned credibility by delivering not by presenting.

• You raise the engineering bar. Code quality testing coverage and operational reliability improve across the squad. Standards you set become the ones others adopt.

How to Think About This Role

If youre looking for:

• A pure management role where you delegate all technical work

• A stable unchanging scope with years of predictable roadmap

• A role where you wait for requirements to arrive before you act

This probably isnt the right fit.

If youre energized by:

• Building things yourself while also leading a team

• Working on hard data problems in a business thats genuinely complex

• Setting the technical standard and watching your team rise to meet it

• Engaging directly with the business to understand what matters and why

• Joining an organization thats being built not just maintained

Lets talk.

Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk reinsurance and capital people and investments and management consulting advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95000 colleagues Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information visit or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

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The applicable base salary range for this role is $139000 to $277900.

The base pay offered will be determined on factors such as experience skills training location certifications education and any applicable minimum wage requirements. Decisions will be determined on a case-by-case addition to the base salary this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.

We are excited to offer a competitive total rewards package which includes health and welfare benefits tuition assistance 401K savings and other retirement programs as well as employee assistance programs.