Principal Data Lead (Data Engineering with Full-Stack Dev) - Investment Systems

About the role

We are seeking a Principal Data Lead to set the technical direction of our Reference Data Platform — the system of record that masters, governs, and distributes the firm’s core reference data (parties, instruments, portfolios, and accounts.

What you'll do

• Own the architecture of a layered reference-data platform, defining the contracts between sourcing, ingestion, mastering, golden-copy
• Set technical direction for entity mastering — standardization, blocking, matching, survivorship, and crosswalk/lineage — designing rules as configuration (data
• Architect the durable golden copy: a bitemporal, point-in-time source of truth with match evidence, per-attribute provenance
• Define the event-driven backbone and cadence model (start-of-day, intraday, end-of-day
• Design the API-first, self-documenting distribution surface (REST, curated data products, subscriptions) governed by data contracts and consumable by applications

What you need

• 12–22 yrs of experience
• Python
• SQL
• LLMs
• ETL
• Data modelling
• Kafka
• MBA or B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA

Good to have

• Airflow
• Spark
• Terraform
• CI/CD
• Kubernetes
• Bloomberg