Lead Data Engineer — Freelance / International Project - Milan hybrid
Were looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join an international project via Shakers, a platform connecting top freelance tech talent with companies worldwide.
Youll be joining an AI-driven fintech scale-up redefining how banks, funds, and advisory firms analyze companies through semantic search and LLM-based enrichment, as a foundational member, architecting and scaling the data infrastructure from the ground up.
What youll do
Deep dive into the existing data landscape (GCP, Python, Cloud Run, Postgres) and identify bottlenecks and architectural improvements
Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant data pipelines handling heterogeneous sources (web scraping, PDFs, structured data) and LLM-based transformers
Own critical decisions on data technologies, architecture, quality, governance, and security
Become the technical reference point for data engineering, mentoring team members and scaling the function




Drive hiring and align the data engineering roadmap with company objectives
Must-haves
3+ years in data engineering (5+ preferred), with a proven track record building and maintaining data solutions
Strong ETL and data warehousing expertise
Advanced Python for data processing, scripting, and automation
Strong hands-on GCP experience (Cloud Run, BigQuery, Dataflow)
Expertise in PostgreSQL (schema design, query optimization, administration)
Experience with LLM/ML pipelines (data prep, feature engineering, model deployment)
Experience leading/scaling data engineering teams
Familiarity with data governance and security best practices
Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
Startup mindset
Hybrid Milan | Freelance | Long-term project with strong renewal visibility
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📌 Lead Data Engineer / International Project - Milan Hybrid (Milano)
🏢 Shakers
📍 Milano