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

📌 Lead Data Engineer / International Project - Milan hybrid (Milano)
🏢 Shakers
📍 Milano