Lead Data Engineer — Freelance / International Project - Milan hybridWe'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 doDeep dive into the existing data landscape (GCP, Python, Cloud Run, Postgres) and identify bottlenecks and architectural improvementsDesign and build scalable, fault-tolerant data pipelines handling heterogeneous sources (web scraping, PDFs, structured data) and LLM-based transformersOwn critical decisions on data technologies, architecture, quality, governance, and securityBecome the technical reference point for data engineering,



mentoring team members and scaling the functionDrive hiring and align the data engineering roadmap with company objectivesMust-haves3+ years in data engineering (5+ preferred), with a proven track record building and maintaining data solutionsStrong ETL and data warehousing expertiseAdvanced Python for data processing, scripting, and automationStrong 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 teamsFamiliarity with data governance and security best practicesTerraform / Infrastructure as CodeStartup mindsetHybrid Milan | Freelance | Long-term project with strong renewal visibility
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📌 Lead Data Engineer (Italia)
🏢 Shakers
📍 Italia