Lead Data Engineer, Enterprise Platforms

Job Description Summary

Raymond James is seeking a highly skilled Lead Data Engineer to join our Enterprise Data team. In this role, you will design, build, and optimize enterprise-scale data integration solutions that power critical business and wealth management platforms across the organization.
As a technical leader, you will work closely with Data Engineers, Data Architects, application development teams, and enterprise stakeholders to deliver scalable, high-performance data solutions that support real-time and batch processing workloads. This position offers the opportunity to shape the future of our data ecosystem while driving innovation, reliability, and operational excellence.

Job Description

Please note: This role is not eligible for Work Visa sponsorship, either currently or in the future.

This role is a hybrid workstyle: with the associate expected to work from a Raymond James office location at least three days per week, including either Monday or Friday.

What You'll Do

• Design and develop scalable, reliable, and high-performing data integration solutions.
• Build low-latency and near real-time data pipelines that serve multiple business consumers and applications.
• Partner with Data Engineers, Architects, and software development teams to create efficient ETL processes and optimized database solutions.
• Develop and maintain enterprise-grade data infrastructure that supports growing business needs.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize batch processing environments to consistently meet service level agreements (SLAs).
• Support and maintain critical production data platforms, ensuring stability, availability, and performance.
• Drive best practices for data engineering, performance tuning, observability, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate across technology teams to solve complex data challenges and improve platform capabilities.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and developing enterprise ETL and data integration solutions.
• Expert-level experience with relational databases, data modeling, and SQL development.
• Strong expertise in SQL performance tuning, ETL optimization, and physical database design.
• Experience supporting large-scale production systems in complex enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across technical teams and influence solutions through partnership and consensus building.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Highly Preferred Qualifications

• Expert-level ETL experience, with Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) preferred.
• Expert-level database experience, with Oracle and AWS Redshift preferred.
• SRE/observability experience with Splunk, Datadog, and CloudWatch.
• AWS/data technologies including Terraform, DMS, S3, Spark, Python, Glue, and EMR are strong pluses.

What Sets You Apart

• Ability to lead through influence and technical expertise.
• Passion for building scalable, resilient, and efficient data platforms.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to partner across engineering, architecture, and business teams.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while managing competing priorities.
• Commitment to continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Additional Information

This position may require participation in on-call support rotations and occasional after-hours work to support critical production systems and platform initiatives

Education

High School (HS) - Completed (Required)

Work Experience

General Experience - 6 to 10 years

Certifications

Travel

Less than 25%

Workstyle

Hybrid

The total compensation for this position includes base salary or wages, and may include components such as additional compensation (cash or equity), discretionary bonuses, or commissions. This position is eligible for a benefits package that may include medical, dental, and vision; life insurance; critical illness insurance and accident insurance; disability benefits; retirement savings; paid time off (including vacation, holidays, and sick leave); and parental leave.  Eligibility for benefits and specific offerings may vary based on position and employment status. To view more details of the benefits offered, visit Myrjbenefits.com.

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view. 
We expect our associates at all levels to:
•  Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same
•  Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes
•  Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind
•  Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter
•  Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm

At Raymond James – as part of our people-first culture, we honor, value, and respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates.  When associates bring their best authentic selves, our organization, clients, and communities thrive. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.

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