Lead Data Engineer

Job Title :: Lead Data Engineer Location :: Denver CO Job Type: Contract We are seeking a • • Data Catalog & Governance Specialist • • to support our • • Send Money / Payments platform • • , ensuring robust metadata management, data lineage visibility, and regulatory-grade governance across transactional and customer data domains. This role is critical in establishing transparency and trust across payment flows, customer onboarding data, compliance datasets (KYC/AML), and reporting pipelines. Key Responsibilities • Configure and administer enterprise • • data catalog platforms • • to support payment and transaction data domains • Define and manage • • business and technical metadata • • for: • Transaction data • Customer/KYC data • Beneficiary and wallet data • Payment status and settlement data • Establish and maintain • • end-to-end data lineage • • across: • Send Money application • Middleware/API layers • Data warehouse and reporting systems • Partner with data engineering teams to monitor and document • • ETL/ELT pipelines • • supporting payment processing • Perform and document • • data quality assessments • • for critical financial datasets • Define and enforce • • data governance policies • • , including: • Data classification (PII, financial data, sensitive fields) • Access control and role-based permissions • Retention and audit requirements • Support regulatory and compliance needs (AML, audit trails, transaction monitoring) • Drive enterprise-wide adoption of the data catalog across business, risk, compliance, and engineering teams • Lead metadata onboarding workshops and training sessions Required Skills & Experience • Hands-on experience with • • data catalog and metadata management tools • • (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Informatica EDC, Microsoft Purview, Atlan, etc.) • Strong understanding of: • Data modeling (transactional and analytical models) • Data lineage and impact analysis • Data quality frameworks and monitoring • ETL/ELT processes in financial systems • Experience working with • • transaction-heavy systems or payment platforms • • • Proficiency in • • SQL • • and familiarity with • • Python scripting • • • Understanding of data privacy and financial regulatory controls • Experience supporting audit and compliance reporting Preferred (Highly Desirable) • Experience in • • FinTech, Digital Banking, or Payments domain • • • Exposure to Send Money / Remittance / Wallet-based applications • Familiarity with KYC, AML, fraud detection, and transaction monitoring data flows • Experience working with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Azure, AWS, etc.) Soft Skills • Strong stakeholder communication across product, risk, compliance, and engineering • Ability to translate technical metadata into business-understandable definitions • Strong organizational and documentation discipline • Experience driving data governance adoption initiatives • Ability to operate in a regulated, high-availability environment