{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"c6a6fccb4df4d6c8defbf152","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/c6a6fccb4df4d6c8defbf152","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/c6a6fccb4df4d6c8defbf152","title":"Data Solution Engineering Lead","description":"About us\n\nItero Group is a Women-Owned Small Business focused on simplifying complex transformations. We empower clients in the private and government sectors to become more optimized, digitally enabled, and data-driven organizations through our comprehensive business consulting and innovative delivery solutions.\n\nItero Group's dedicated team members are experienced thought leaders, tenacious workers, and creative thinkers. We hire people who are passionate about being catalysts for change - in our company, for our clients, throughout our career- and we empower people to express their ideas, create better practices, innovate better products, and become better professionals.\n\nWe have been named a Great Place to Work for six years, and offer a competitive salary and benefits package.\n\nData Solution Engineering Lead\n\nItero Group is seeking an experienced Data Solution Engineering Lead to support enterprise data modernization initiatives for leading Financial Services clients. This individual will serve as a hands-on technical lead, designing and optimizing cloud-based data solutions while providing day-to-day leadership, mentoring engineers, and helping drive successful delivery across complex client engagements.\n\nThe ideal candidate combines deep hands-on experience with Snowflake, Databricks, SQL, Python, and enterprise data engineering with the ability to lead and mentor technical teams, manage priorities and deliverables, and work directly with client stakeholders. Experience with accounting, tax, finance, or related enterprise platforms is highly desirable.\n\nKey Responsibilities\nLead the design, development, and implementation of client solutions using Snowflake and Databricks.\nServe as a hands-on technical lead, contributing directly to development while providing technical direction, guidance and mentoring to other team members including engineers.\nLead, mentor, and coach data engineers, providing guidance on solution design, development standards, troubleshooting, and engineering best practices.\nHelp manage team priorities, technical assignments, deliverables, and dependencies to ensure work is completed efficiently and on schedule.\nReview code and technical designs and provide constructive feedback to improve quality, scalability, and maintainability.\nBuild and optimize ELT/ETL processes to ingest and transform data from multiple complex enterprise systems.\nWork with large volumes of complex structured, semi-structured, and log data to identify patterns, troubleshoot issues, determine root causes, and develop faster and more efficient solutions.\nProactively identify performance bottlenecks and inefficient processes and recommend opportunities for automation, optimization, and improved processing speed.\nDevelop dimensional data models, data marts, and curated analytical datasets.\nOptimize Snowflake and Databricks solutions for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost.\nImplement data quality, lineage, governance, and security best practices.\nDevelop solutions utilizing Snowpark, stored procedures, streams, tasks, and dynamic tables where appropriate.\nPartner directly with business and technology stakeholders to understand complex reporting, accounting, tax, and analytical requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.\nBuild reusable data frameworks supporting Accounting, Tax, Finance, Risk, Compliance, Treasury, and Regulatory Reporting.\nDevelop automated orchestration using Airflow, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, or similar technologies.\nLead or actively participate in solution design sessions, sprint planning, backlog grooming, technical reviews, and other Agile ceremonies.\nCommunicate technical issues, risks, recommendations, and delivery status clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nRequired Qualifications\n8+ years of Data Engineering experience, with demonstrated progression into a technical lead, team lead, or engineering management role.\n4+ years of hands-on Snowflake development experience.\nHands-on experience developing and supporting Databricks solutions.\nDemonstrated experience leading and mentoring data engineers or technical delivery teams.\nExperience managing technical workstreams, including priorities, assignments, dependencies, deliverables, and technical quality.\nAbility to remain hands-on technically while providing leadership and oversight to a team.\nStrong SQL expertise, including complex query development and optimization.\nStrong Python development experience.\nExperience building enterprise ELT/ETL pipelines.\nDemonstrated experience analyzing and troubleshooting large, complex datasets and application/system logs.\nStrong ability to identify root causes, performance bottlenecks, and opportunities to develop faster, more efficient data solutions.\nExperience with cloud platforms including Azure and/or AWS; GCP experience is a plus.\nExperience with dbt, Airflow, Git, and CI/CD; Terraform experience preferred.\nExperience working with structured and semi-structured data.\nStrong knowledge of data modeling, including Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, and Kimball methodologies.\nExperience with REST APIs and enterprise data integration.\nStrong troubleshooting, performance tuning, and problem-solving skills.\nExperience working with accounting, tax, finance, or related enterprise platforms and datasets strongly preferred.\n\nFinancial Services Experience\n\nCandidates should possess experience supporting one or more of the following:\n\nBanking\nCommercial or Investment Banking\nCapital Markets\nAsset or Wealth Management\nInsurance\nFinTech\n\nExperience supporting Accounting, Tax, Finance, Treasury, Risk, or Regulatory Reporting platforms and processeswithin complex enterprise environments is highly desirable.\n\nLeadership & Management Experience\nDemonstrated experience leading, mentoring, and developing technical team members.\nAbility to provide technical direction while empowering engineers to independently solve problems.\nExperience managing multiple priorities and coordinating work across technical teams.\nAbility to identify skills gaps, provide coaching, and raise the overall technical capabilities of the team.\nExperience reviewing technical designs and code and establishing engineering standards and best practices.\nAbility to manage delivery expectations, escalate risks appropriately, and help keep projects on schedule.\nComfortable operating as both a technical leader and hands-on engineer.\nConsulting Experience\nExperience working within a Big Four or similar consulting environment strongly preferred.\nDemonstrated ability to lead technical workstreams within complex client engagements.\nExperience working directly with client stakeholders and senior leadership.\nAbility to gather requirements from business stakeholders, including accounting, tax, finance, and technology teams.\nExperience leading client workshops and solution design sessions.\nAbility to translate complex business and data challenges into practical, scalable technology solutions.\nExcellent verbal and written communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.\n\nIf you are looking for a role where you will lead with integrity, create and innovate, inspire excellence, be a respected member of the team, drive results, and have fun, we look forward to connecting with you!\n\nBenefits at Itero Group\nAt Itero Group, we're proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and work-life balance:\n\nHealth & Wellness: Medical (BC-BS), dental, and vision plans to suit your needs.\nPaid Time Off: Generous PTO, paid holidays, and increasing PTO based on years of service.\nRetirement Savings: 401(k) plan with company match and auto-enrollment.\nCompany-Paid Coverage: Short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, and AD&D insurance.\nAdditional Options: Voluntary benefits including pet insurance and student loan assistance up to $1,000 annually.\nPerks: FSAs, HSAs, wellness programs, and more to enhance your work-life balance.\n\nJoin us and enjoy a benefits package designed with you in mind!\n\nItero Group is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, physical or mental disability, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, veteran status or political affiliation.","company":"Itero Group","rawCompany":"itero group","city":"Chicago","state":"IL","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-09T08:57:38.783Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1243.01","title":"Data Warehousing Specialists","slug":"data-warehousing-specialists"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-2051.00","title":"Data Scientists","slug":"data-scientists"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541690","title":"Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services","slug":"other-scientific-and-technical-consulting-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Data Solution Engineering Lead","description":"About us\n\nItero Group is a Women-Owned Small Business focused on simplifying complex transformations. We empower clients in the private and government sectors to become more optimized, digitally enabled, and data-driven organizations through our comprehensive business consulting and innovative delivery solutions.\n\nItero Group's dedicated team members are experienced thought leaders, tenacious workers, and creative thinkers. We hire people who are passionate about being catalysts for change - in our company, for our clients, throughout our career- and we empower people to express their ideas, create better practices, innovate better products, and become better professionals.\n\nWe have been named a Great Place to Work for six years, and offer a competitive salary and benefits package.\n\nData Solution Engineering Lead\n\nItero Group is seeking an experienced Data Solution Engineering Lead to support enterprise data modernization initiatives for leading Financial Services clients. This individual will serve as a hands-on technical lead, designing and optimizing cloud-based data solutions while providing day-to-day leadership, mentoring engineers, and helping drive successful delivery across complex client engagements.\n\nThe ideal candidate combines deep hands-on experience with Snowflake, Databricks, SQL, Python, and enterprise data engineering with the ability to lead and mentor technical teams, manage priorities and deliverables, and work directly with client stakeholders. Experience with accounting, tax, finance, or related enterprise platforms is highly desirable.\n\nKey Responsibilities\nLead the design, development, and implementation of client solutions using Snowflake and Databricks.\nServe as a hands-on technical lead, contributing directly to development while providing technical direction, guidance and mentoring to other team members including engineers.\nLead, mentor, and coach data engineers, providing guidance on solution design, development standards, troubleshooting, and engineering best practices.\nHelp manage team priorities, technical assignments, deliverables, and dependencies to ensure work is completed efficiently and on schedule.\nReview code and technical designs and provide constructive feedback to improve quality, scalability, and maintainability.\nBuild and optimize ELT/ETL processes to ingest and transform data from multiple complex enterprise systems.\nWork with large volumes of complex structured, semi-structured, and log data to identify patterns, troubleshoot issues, determine root causes, and develop faster and more efficient solutions.\nProactively identify performance bottlenecks and inefficient processes and recommend opportunities for automation, optimization, and improved processing speed.\nDevelop dimensional data models, data marts, and curated analytical datasets.\nOptimize Snowflake and Databricks solutions for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost.\nImplement data quality, lineage, governance, and security best practices.\nDevelop solutions utilizing Snowpark, stored procedures, streams, tasks, and dynamic tables where appropriate.\nPartner directly with business and technology stakeholders to understand complex reporting, accounting, tax, and analytical requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.\nBuild reusable data frameworks supporting Accounting, Tax, Finance, Risk, Compliance, Treasury, and Regulatory Reporting.\nDevelop automated orchestration using Airflow, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, or similar technologies.\nLead or actively participate in solution design sessions, sprint planning, backlog grooming, technical reviews, and other Agile ceremonies.\nCommunicate technical issues, risks, recommendations, and delivery status clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nRequired Qualifications\n8+ years of Data Engineering experience, with demonstrated progression into a technical lead, team lead, or engineering management role.\n4+ years of hands-on Snowflake development experience.\nHands-on experience developing and supporting Databricks solutions.\nDemonstrated experience leading and mentoring data engineers or technical delivery teams.\nExperience managing technical workstreams, including priorities, assignments, dependencies, deliverables, and technical quality.\nAbility to remain hands-on technically while providing leadership and oversight to a team.\nStrong SQL expertise, including complex query development and optimization.\nStrong Python development experience.\nExperience building enterprise ELT/ETL pipelines.\nDemonstrated experience analyzing and troubleshooting large, complex datasets and application/system logs.\nStrong ability to identify root causes, performance bottlenecks, and opportunities to develop faster, more efficient data solutions.\nExperience with cloud platforms including Azure and/or AWS; GCP experience is a plus.\nExperience with dbt, Airflow, Git, and CI/CD; Terraform experience preferred.\nExperience working with structured and semi-structured data.\nStrong knowledge of data modeling, including Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, and Kimball methodologies.\nExperience with REST APIs and enterprise data integration.\nStrong troubleshooting, performance tuning, and problem-solving skills.\nExperience working with accounting, tax, finance, or related enterprise platforms and datasets strongly preferred.\n\nFinancial Services Experience\n\nCandidates should possess experience supporting one or more of the following:\n\nBanking\nCommercial or Investment Banking\nCapital Markets\nAsset or Wealth Management\nInsurance\nFinTech\n\nExperience supporting Accounting, Tax, Finance, Treasury, Risk, or Regulatory Reporting platforms and processeswithin complex enterprise environments is highly desirable.\n\nLeadership & Management Experience\nDemonstrated experience leading, mentoring, and developing technical team members.\nAbility to provide technical direction while empowering engineers to independently solve problems.\nExperience managing multiple priorities and coordinating work across technical teams.\nAbility to identify skills gaps, provide coaching, and raise the overall technical capabilities of the team.\nExperience reviewing technical designs and code and establishing engineering standards and best practices.\nAbility to manage delivery expectations, escalate risks appropriately, and help keep projects on schedule.\nComfortable operating as both a technical leader and hands-on engineer.\nConsulting Experience\nExperience working within a Big Four or similar consulting environment strongly preferred.\nDemonstrated ability to lead technical workstreams within complex client engagements.\nExperience working directly with client stakeholders and senior leadership.\nAbility to gather requirements from business stakeholders, including accounting, tax, finance, and technology teams.\nExperience leading client workshops and solution design sessions.\nAbility to translate complex business and data challenges into practical, scalable technology solutions.\nExcellent verbal and written communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.\n\nIf you are looking for a role where you will lead with integrity, create and innovate, inspire excellence, be a respected member of the team, drive results, and have fun, we look forward to connecting with you!\n\nBenefits at Itero Group\nAt Itero Group, we're proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and work-life balance:\n\nHealth & Wellness: Medical (BC-BS), dental, and vision plans to suit your needs.\nPaid Time Off: Generous PTO, paid holidays, and increasing PTO based on years of service.\nRetirement Savings: 401(k) plan with company match and auto-enrollment.\nCompany-Paid Coverage: Short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, and AD&D insurance.\nAdditional Options: Voluntary benefits including pet insurance and student loan assistance up to $1,000 annually.\nPerks: FSAs, HSAs, wellness programs, and more to enhance your work-life balance.\n\nJoin us and enjoy a benefits package designed with you in mind!\n\nItero Group is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, physical or mental disability, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, veteran status or political affiliation.","datePosted":"2026-09-09T08:57:38.783Z","dateModified":"2026-09-09T08:57:38.783Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Itero Group","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Chicago","addressRegion":"IL","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"c6a6fccb4df4d6c8defbf152"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/c6a6fccb4df4d6c8defbf152"}}