Fitch Group is seeking a Lead Data Engineer based out of their Monterrey, Mexico office. The successful candidate will be part of a high-performing data engineering team, implementing modern scalable data solutions aligned with business priorities.
Requirements
- 3-5 yearsâ experience âhands-onâ as a member of a highly technical data-centric software engineers, preferably in financial services, in support of Data Lake houses (e.g. AWS, Databricks, Snowflake), data virtualizations solutions (e.g. Starburst), modern data catalogs & data quality capabilities (e.g. Collibra), and Master Data Management (e.g. Informatica)
- Proven AWS expertise (S3, EKS, Lambda, Glue, EMR, Redshift, S3, RDS/Aurora, Valkey/Redis, Step Functions, MSK/Kafka, Event Bridge)
- AWS Certification strongly preferred
- Experience applying AI/ML to boost engineering productivity (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q)
- Strong Python for data engineering (Pandas, Spark/PySpark) and API Development (FastAPI or similar)
- Design and build high-performance REST/GraphQL APIs with optimized query patterns, pagination, caching, and schema design to ensure low-latency, performant reads at scale
- Build ETL/ELT pipelines for batch and streaming; Kafka/MSK with schemas (Avro/JSON) and delivery semantics
- Optimize performance of object-based and relational datastores
- Design applications with microservices and containerization mindset with âdecouplingâ architectural principles
- Caching with Valkey/Redis: TTL strategies, invalidation, key design
- CI/CD and IaC with GitHub, Git/GitHub workflows, ArgoCD
- Security and reliability: IAM, KMS, secrets, VPC networking, observability (OpenTelemetry), SLOs, cost governance
- Ability to solve complex data-driven requirements and triage towards defects and production bugs
- Technology solutions and tools including data governance and catalog solutions (e.g. Collibra, Alation, data platform and lake(house) (i.e. âmedallionâ architecture), and data mesh and virtualization tools (e.g. Starburst, Denodo)
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Retirement Plan
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance
