Fitch Group is seeking a Director to lead the Master Data Management team, modernizing how we manage and deliver strategic data. In this role, you will build and deliver technical solutions, integrate AI into MDM, and mentor team members.
What You'll Do
- Partner with the CDO team to deliver a modern, scalable solution for managing and delivering master and reference data.
- Lead MDM integrations, build hands-on designs, and deliver solutions ensuring technical delivery aligns with product priorities and business outcomes.
- Integrate agentic and generative AI into Master Data Management to enhance data stewardship, automate matching and enrichment, enable conversational data discovery, and boost user adoption.
- Optimize MDM integrations performance and high-throughput data access by leveraging appropriate data management methodologies.
- Drive complex data transformations and proactively triage issues to eliminate defects and prevent production incidents.
- Mentor and motivate squad members to grow their career and assist in technical hiring.
What We're Looking For
- 5-7+ years leading data engineering teams, preferably in financial services.
- Cloud experience (AWS, Azure) and leveraging Agile methodologies.
- Deep AWS expertise (EKS, Lambda, Glue, Redshift, S3, RDS/Aurora, Valkey/Redis, Step Functions, MSK/Kafka, Event Bridge).
- Ability to provide technical guidance and leadership to the team.
- 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.
- Build ETL/ELT pipelines for batch and streaming; Kafka/MSK with schemas (Avro/JSON) and delivery semantics.
- Experience with open table formats (Iceberg or Delta Lake), partitioning, compaction, ACID, schema evolution.
- Database expertise with Postgres for schema design and performance tuning; Redshift optimization (sort/dist keys, WLM).
- 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.
- Strong system design, testing culture (unit/integration/contract), documentation, threat modeling.
- Product-led delivery; ability to translate between technical and business priorities.
Technical Stack
- Cloud: AWS, Azure
- Compute & Orchestration: EKS, Lambda, Step Functions, Event Bridge
- Data & Analytics: Glue, Redshift, S3, RDS/Aurora, Valkey/Redis, MSK/Kafka
- Languages & Frameworks: Python, Pandas, Spark/PySpark, FastAPI
- API & Integration: REST/GraphQL APIs, Kafka/MSK, Avro/JSON
- Data Formats & Storage: Iceberg, Delta Lake, Postgres
- DevOps & Infrastructure: GitHub, Git, ArgoCD, IAM, KMS, VPC, OpenTelemetry
Team & Environment
This role is part of the Technology & Data Team, which includes the Chief Data Office, Chief Software Office, Chief Technology Office, Emerging Technology, Shared Technology Services, Technology, Risk and the Executive Program Management Office (EPMO).
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position based in New York.
Fitch Group is an equal opportunity employer.
