Principal Data Engineer - Data Strategy & Architecture
Fifth Third Bank3 days ago
Cincinnati, OH, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, support, and modernize scalable data solutions, platforms, APIs, tools, and processes.
- Lead architecture and delivery of complex, high-impact data solutions across multiple teams and data domains.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, self-service deployment tools, automated testing, validation, reconciliation, and data quality controls.
- Optimize and automate data pipelines for scalability, observability, efficiency, reliability, and performance.
- Provide troubleshooting, operational support, monitoring, and critical production incident response for data platforms and pipelines.
- Define and drive engineering standards, technical strategy, data security practices, governance, documentation, lineage, and data asset ownership.
- Research data engineering, architecture, security, AI-readiness, and banking technology trends and translate findings into improvements.
- Lead strategic initiatives involving legacy modernization, data pipeline improvements, cross-team dependencies, and technical risk resolution.
- Use approved AI-assisted engineering capabilities to improve productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and problem solving.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, coaching, and knowledge sharing across multiple teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 8+ years of related experience, including at least 6 years in a hands-on software development or data engineering role.
- Proficiency in SQL, including query optimization, complex joins, window functions, and analytical queries across large-scale datasets.
- Significant experience with at least two relational database management systems, SQL-based data platforms, and large-scale data processing patterns.
- Experience supporting Unix/Linux and Windows systems and proficiency in relational database modeling.
- Strong understanding of distributed computing, scalable data architectures, application and data security, common vulnerabilities, and data product principles.
- Experience with one or more preferred areas including modern data platforms, cloud-native architectures, data transformation, traditional data engineering, metadata management, data governance, BI, messaging and streaming, or data warehousing.
- Experience with REST API design and development, version control and CI/CD tools, infrastructure automation and virtualization tools, and major cloud platforms.
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering capabilities and understanding how trusted data supports analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning solutions.
- Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences, including business stakeholders, IT sponsors, and leadership.
- Experience collaborating with offshore teams is a plus; financial services experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits supporting employees and their families across physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being.
- Eligibility for incentive compensation based on company, line-of-business, and/or individual performance.
- Position is located in Cincinnati, Ohio; the posting does not state a remote or hybrid arrangement.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Fifth Third Bank
Fifth Third Bank is a regional U.S. financial institution providing commercial and retail banking, consumer lending, credit cards, mortgages, and wealth and asset management to individuals and businesses. It earns interest and fee income from deposits, loans, payments, and investment services delivered through branches, digital channels, and advisors. Founded in 1858 and headquartered in Cincinnati, it is publicly traded as Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB) with a broad footprint across the Midwest and Southeast.