Lead Data Engineer
Location- Denver CO/Austin TX (Onsite Position)
Type of Hire – Contract
We are seeking a Lead Data Engineer 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
- Primary Skill: Good in design and development of applications using PostgreSQL and Snowflake
- Secondary Skill: Qlik Catalog, Talend
- 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.