
Data Lead / Data Engineer / Data Architect / Data & AI Engineering Lead
NTT DATA North America
Job description
Summary:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Practitioner / Data Lead to lead enterprise data initiatives across data engineering, governance, provisioning, analytics, and AI/ML. The role will support Financial Crime, Fraud Analytics, AML, KYC, and Risk functions, partnering with business stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
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Lead end-to-end data engineering, data management, governance, and analytics initiatives.
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Design and maintain scalable batch and real-time data pipelines and enterprise data lake solutions.
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Develop data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and provisioning frameworks using Python, SQL, Spark, and Hadoop.
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Support Fraud, AML, Financial Crime, Risk, and machine learning use cases.
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Partner with Data Science/AI teams on feature engineering, model training, inference, deployment, and MLOps.
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Utilize PyTorch for ML workflows, fraud analytics, anomaly detection, and AI-driven automation.
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Implement data governance, quality, metadata, lineage, security, and compliance frameworks.
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Build monitoring and automation solutions for data quality and platform performance.
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Collaborate with distributed business and technology teams and mentor junior engineers.
Basic Qualifications:
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8+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Management, Data Architecture, or Data Governance.
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5+ years of experience in Banking, Financial Services, Capital Markets, or Financial Institutions.
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Strong experience with Fraud Analytics, Financial Crime, AML, KYC, Risk, or Regulatory Reporting.
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Strong hands-on expertise in Python, SQL, PyTorch, Apache Spark, Hadoop, and data architecture.
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Experience building real-time/near-real-time data platforms, enterprise data lakes, and ML/AI data pipelines.
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Strong understanding of MLOps and machine learning lifecycle management.
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Experience with enterprise data governance, data quality, metadata, lineage, security, and compliance.
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Experience with Linux, Shell scripting, Agile, CI/CD, Git, and DevOps.
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Strong communication, analytical, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.