• Lead and manage the data engineering team, providing technical direction, mentorship, and performance oversight. • Design, develop, and optimize enterprise data architectures and pipelines to support business intelligence, analytics, and downstream applications. • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements, prioritize initiatives, and deliver data solutions aligned with business needs. • Establish, implement, and enforce data governance, data quality, and data security standards across the organization. • Partner with IT and infrastructure teams to support cloud-based data platforms, ensuring system performance, scalability, and reliability. • Oversee project planning, execution, and delivery for data engineering initiatives, utilizing established project management practices and tools. • Maintain comprehensive documentation for data architectures, pipelines, processes, and standards. • Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies, including AI-driven data solutions, and recommend innovative approaches to advance data engineering capabilities. • Ensure best practices are followed for handling sensitive data and meeting regulatory and compliance requirements within financial services.