Lead Data Engineer — Freelance / International Project - Milan hybrid

We're looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join an international project via Shakers, a platform connecting top freelance tech talent with companies worldwide.

You'll 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 you'll 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