Data Product Engineer Lead
U.S. Bank Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Banking · 10,001+ employees
About the role
Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise data products while establishing engineering standards and best practices. Collaborate with stakeholders to define technical roadmaps and mentor engineering teams to drive excellence in data delivery.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires a bachelor's degree in a relevant field and over 8 years of experience in data engineering or platform engineering. Candidates must possess at least 3 years of technical leadership experience and expert-level proficiency in SQL, Python/Scala, and cloud data platforms.
Full description
At U.S. Bancorp India, we’re on a journey to do our best. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bancorp India gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.
Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
- Lead architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise data products and domain data assets.
- Establish engineering standards, design patterns, reusable frameworks, and development best practices.
- Guide technology decisions across cloud, data platform, integration, and analytical ecosystems.
- Review solution designs for scalability, resiliency, maintainability, and security.
- Partner with Data Product Leads and business stakeholders to define priorities and execution plans.
- Translate business outcomes into technical implementation roadmaps.
- Lead delivery of strategic data products supporting enterprise data initiatives.
- Ensure products meet functional, performance, quality, and governance requirements.
- Mentor and coach engineers across technical and professional development areas.
- Support hiring, onboarding, skill development, and succession planning.
- Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, design reviews, and quality assurance practices.
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous learning.
- Drive platform optimization, cost management, observability, automation, and reliability initiatives.
- Collaborate with enterprise architecture and platform teams on long-term technology roadmaps.
- Establish monitoring frameworks for data reliability and service-level expectations.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory, risk, privacy, and security requirements.
- Lead development of trusted data products supporting AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics.
- Drive adoption of feature stores, semantic models, and analytical datasets.
- Manage technical debt and modernization strategies across data product portfolios.
Experience / Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science, or related discipline.
- 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, or Data Platform Engineering.
- 3+ years of technical leadership experience leading engineering teams or strategic initiatives.
- Expert-level experience with:
- SQL
- Python and/or Scala
- Cloud Data Platforms
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- Data Warehousing
- Data Modeling
- Distributed Processing Frameworks
- Experience delivering enterprise-scale cloud data solutions.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD, Agile, DevOps, DataOps, and engineering governance frameworks.
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical strategy and align engineering execution with business outcomes.
If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.
Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.
This is an U.S. Bancorp India posting. U.S. Bancorp India is a part of the U.S. Bank family.
