Lead Data Engineer

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.