Credit Union of Southern California · 15 hours ago
Lead Data Engineer
Anaheim, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$127K/yr - $188K/yr
10+ years expCredit Union of Southern California is one of the fastest growing credit unions, and they are seeking a Lead Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain their data architecture for business intelligence and analytics. The role involves mentoring junior team members and collaborating with BI developers and analysts to deliver scalable data solutions.
Non ProfitFinanceBankingFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines (batch and/or near-real-time)
Ingest, transform, and integrate data from core banking systems, third-party vendors, and internal applications
Optimize data performance, reliability, and cost across storage and compute layers in Snowflake
Implement data quality checks, monitoring, and error handling
Partner with BI developers and analysts to ensure data structures support reporting and analytics needs
Create curated data marts, semantic layers, or analytics-ready datasets, balancing immediate needs with the strategic vision for the data model/architecture
Support and troubleshoot downstream BI solutions and dashboards
Develop or enhance dashboards in Tableau Desktop when needed
Implement data access controls, masking, and lineage
Support regulatory, audit, and risk management requirements common to financial institutions
Contribute to metadata management and documentation
Advise on best practices as they relate to BI data governance, security, and compliance
Serve as a technical lead and mentor for BI analysts and data engineering team members
Translate business requirements into technical solutions
Collaborate with IT, Information Security, and business units
Complete understanding and active application the C.A.R.E. 4 Guide expectations and the Brand Communications Standards Accountability Philosophy
Must be able and available to work a “hybrid” schedule, per business operations requirement, as needed
Additional duties and responsibilities, as assigned
Qualification
Required
High School Diploma or equivalent
10+ years of experience in data and analytics engineering and support operations
Deep experience working with data warehouses or lakehouse platforms (cloud or on-prem)
Experience with Snowflake/AWS cloud data platform
Advanced proficiency with SQL and at least one data transformation framework or ETL/ELT tool
Solid understanding of data governance, data quality, and security concepts
Preferred
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Experience in financial services, banking, or credit unions
Strong experience designing analytical data models (star schema, snowflake, fact/dimension modeling)
Experience designing and evolving enterprise data architecture that supports reporting, analytics, and self-service BI
Ability to define and maintain logical and physical data models (dimensional, relational, and analytical)
Understanding of data standards, naming conventions, and modeling best practices
Working knowledge of aligning architecture with security, privacy, regulatory, and governance requirements
Ability to develop in Tableau Desktop independently as needed
Familiarity with CI/CD, version control
Experience with metadata management or data catalog tools
Comfortable working within the Agile framework
Benefits
Great health benefits
Company
Credit Union of Southern California
Credit Union of Southern California is a banking and finance service provider company.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Sevan Yakinian
Chief Technology Officer
Katsu Durst, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
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