Team Lead, Data Engineering

First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) is Nigeria's largest financial services institution by total assets and gross earnings. With more than 10 million customer accounts, FirstBank has over 750 branches providing a comprehensive range of retail and corporate financial services. The Bank has international presence through its subsidiaries, FBN Bank (UK) Limited in London and Paris, FBNBank DRC, FBNBank Ghana, FBNBank Gambia, FBNBank Guinea, FBNBank Sierra-Leone and FBNBank Senegal, as well as its Representative Offices in Johannesburg, Beijing and Abu Dhabi. We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Team Lead, Data Engineering Req ID: 1849

Location: Nigeria

Job Type: Full-time Duties &

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership: Direct, mentor, and inspire a world-class team of data engineers to deliver robust enterprise-grade data platforms and pipelines. Establish and enforce advanced engineering best practices, frameworks, and coding standards. Architecture & Design: Architect scalable, high-performance, and resilient data solutions for structured and unstructured data across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Oversee data modeling, data warehousing, and metadata management initiatives. Engineering Excellence: Lead the implementation of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), automated testing, and monitoring to enable rapid, secure, and reliable deployment cycles. Data Security & Compliance: Ensure all solutions adhere to global data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA), internal security frameworks, and bank policies. Drive data lineage, governance, auditing, and data loss prevention (DLP) strategies at every layer. Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with data architects, analytics leaders, business stakeholders, and product owners to translate complex requirements into scalable technical deliverables with clear acceptance criteria. Operational Resilience: Oversee production support, real-time monitoring, incident response, disaster recovery, and root cause analysis. Proactively resolve incidents and implement robust corrective and preventive actions. Project & Resource Management: Manage project delivery, team resourcing, budgeting, and risk prioritization to meet aggressive timelines and service-level agreements (SLAs). Continuous Improvement: Cultivate a culture of ongoing technical innovation, automation, and continuous learning to maintain a competitive edge in data engineering capabilities and technology trends.