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Senior Lead Data Engineer

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Overview
Who we are
Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like at Toyota. As one of the world’s most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve. We’re looking for talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow. with us.
An important part of the Toyota family is Toyota Financial Services (TFS), the finance and insurance brand for Toyota and Lexus in North America. While TFS is a separate business entity, it is an essential part of this world-changing company- delivering on Toyota's vision to move people beyond what's possible. At TFS, you will help create best-in-class customer experience in an innovative, collaborative environment.
To save time applying, Toyota does not offer sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this position at this time.
Who we're looking fo
r
At TFS, we're building next-generation products that redefine mobility for millions of customers worldwide. We're looking for a
Sr Lead Data Enginee
r — an individual contributor at the principal level — who brings deep expertise in data engineering, streaming architectures, and analytics platforms, combined with technical leadership to make data a reliable, scalable foundation for the entire engineering organization.
This isn't a management role. It's for the engineer who thinks in pipelines and data contracts: the one who can design a Lakehouse architecture, build a real-time streaming platform, ensure data quality at scale, and make it all self-service for the teams that depend on it. You'll work at the intersection of backend engineering, ML/AI, and analytics — making sure the data that powers our products, models, and decisions is trustworthy, timely, and accessible. If you want to build the data backbone of a modern engineering org — not just move files around — this is the role.
This position is based in Plano, TX. The selected candidate will be expected to reside within a commutable distance of this location.
What you'll be doing:
Serve as the technical authority for data architecture across the organization, making high-impact decisions on data lake design, streaming topologies, storage formats, partitioning strategies, and data modeling patterns
Design, build, and maintain production-grade data pipelines — batch and real-time — from ingestion and transformation to serving and consumption
Own the data platform: build and evolve the foundational infrastructure that engineering, ML/AI, and analytics teams depend on for reliable, governed, and performant data access
Partner closely with
ML/AI engineers
to ensure training data, feature pipelines, and model serving data are accurate, fresh, and efficiently delivered — you are the upstream enabler for every model in production
Collaborate with
backend and full-stack engineers
to design event-driven architectures, define data contracts, and ensure application data flows cleanly into the data platform
Lead technical design reviews, architecture discussions, and RFC processes for data initiatives — driving alignment across engineering teams
Identify and resolve systemic data issues: pipeline failures, data quality degradation, schema drift, latency in streaming systems, cost inefficiencies in storage and computing, and gaps in data observability
Define and champion data engineering best practices: data modeling, schema evolution, data contracts, testing strategies, lineage tracking, cataloging, and governance
Design and implement data quality frameworks — validation rules, anomaly detection, freshness checks, and alerting — so downstream consumers can trust the data without asking
Collaborate closely with Engineering Managers, Product, Data Science, and Analytics to shape data roadmaps and ensure the platform evolves with business needs
Mentor and grow engineers at all levels through code reviews, pairing, design feedback, and technical guidance on data engineering topics
Contribute to hiring by conducting technical interviews and helping define what great looks like for data engineering at TFS
Proactively communicate technical risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to both engineering and non-technical stakeholders
What you bring
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
7+ years of software or data engineering experience, including 3–5 years focused specifically on data platform and pipeline engineering at scale, with a track record of operating at a principal or staff engineer level
Deep expertise in designing and building
data lake and Lakehouse architectures on AWS
, including:
S3
as the foundation for data lake storage, with strong opinions on partitioning, file formats (Parquet, Avro, ORC), and lifecycle management
AWS Glue
for ETL/ELT jobs, crawlers, and the Data Catalog
Amazon Athena
for serverless SQL analytics over the data lake
Lake Formation
for fine-grained access control, governance, and cross-account data sharing
Amazon Redshift
or
Redshift Serverless
for data warehousing and high-performance analytical queries
Amazon EMR
or
EMR Serverless
for large-scale Spark, Hive, or Presto workloads
Production experience with
real-time and streaming data architectures
, including:
Amazon Kinesis
(Data Streams, Data Firehose) for real-time ingestion and delivery
Amazon MSK
(Managed Kafka) or self-managed Kafka for event streaming at scale
EventBridge
,
SQS
, or
SNS
for event-driven integration with application services
Lambda
for lightweight stream processing and event transformation
Apache Flink
(via Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink) or Spark Structured Streaming for stateful stream processing
Strong proficiency in
Python
and
SQL
— you write production-quality pipeline code, not just ad-hoc scripts, and you can optimize a complex query as fluently as you can design a DAG
Experience with
workflow orchestration
tools:
Step Functions
,
Apache Airflow
(via Amazon MWAA), or similar — you know how to build reliable, observable, and recoverable pipeline DAGs
Solid understanding of
data modeling
for both analytical and operational use cases: star schemas, slowly changing dimensions, wide tables, event sourcing, and CDC (change data capture) patterns
Experience with
data quality and governance
tooling and practices: Great Expectations, Deequ, or custom validation frameworks — plus data cataloging, lineage tracking, and access control
Strong understanding of
Infrastructure as Code
using
AWS CDK
, CloudFormation, or Terraform for data infrastructure
Experience with
observability and monitoring
for data systems: pipeline health dashboards, data freshness tracking, SLA monitoring, and alerting on failures or anomalies (CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar)
Strong understanding of
security best practices
for data: IAM policies, Lake Formation permissions, encryption at rest and in transit, data masking, and PII handling
Deep experience debugging complex issues across data systems — pipeline failures, data skew, schema mismatches, streaming lag, and storage cost runaway
Experience with testing strategies for data pipelines: data validation, schema contract testing, integration testing, and pipeline idempotency
Strong written and verbal communication — you can write a clear RFC, lead a design review, and explain a data architecture tradeoff to a non-technical stakeholder
Added bonus if you have
Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field
Experience in the financial services, banking, or insurance industry
Experience with
open table formats
: Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Apache Hudi for ACID transactions, time travel, and schema evolution on the data lake
Experience with
feature store
design and implementation for ML/AI use cases (SageMaker Feature Store, Feast, or custom)
Familiarity with
dbt
or similar transformation frameworks for analytics engineering and data modeling
Experience with
real-time analytics
serving layers: Amazon OpenSearch, DynamoDB, or ElastiCache for low-latency data access
Experience designing
multi-account AWS data architectures
with proper governance and guardrails (AWS Organizations, Control Tower, cross-account data sharing via Lake Formation)
Hands-on experience with
data mesh
or
data product
patterns — decentralized ownership with centralized governance
Experience with
CDC (change data capture)
tools: AWS DMS, Debezium, or similar for streaming database changes into the data lake
Experience with
cost optimization
for data workloads: storage tiering, compute right-sizing, spot instances for Spark, and query optimization
Experience with
GenAI data pipelines
: preparing training datasets, building RAG knowledge bases, embedding generation, and vector store population
AWS certifications (Data Analytics Specialty, Solutions Architect, Database Specialty)
Experience with
CI/CD pipelines
for data infrastructure and pipeline deployment (CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, or similar)
Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source data engineering projects
Experience defining engineering standards, writing ADRs, or leading org-wide technical initiatives
What we’ll bring
During your interview process, our team can fill you in on all the details of our industry-leading benefits and career development opportunities. A few highlights
include:
A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect
Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career, as well as tuition reimbursement
Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount
Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program (if applicable)
Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for your entire family
Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match, as well as an annual retirement contribution from Toyota, regardless of whether you contribute
Paid holidays and paid time off
Referral services related to prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools, and more
Tax-Advantaged Accounts (Health Savings Account, Health Care FSA, Dependent Care FSA)
Relocation Assistance (if applicable).
Belonging at Toyota
Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace all perspectives and value unique human experiences. Respect for all is our North Star. Toyota is proud to have 10+ different Business Partnering Groups across 100 different North American chapter locations that support team members’ efforts to dream, do and grow without questioning that they belong.
Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.
Have a question, need assistance with your application or do you require any special accommodations? Please send an email to talent.acquisition@toyota.com .
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