Technical Lead Data

Location: Mexico City, Mexico or Toronto, Canada; hybrid work with at least three days per week in the local office or onsite with clients

Company

Marsh is a global risk, reinsurance, capital, people and investments, and management consulting organization serving clients in 130 countries.

What you will do

• Lead a delivery squad of 4–8 data engineers, including employees and contractors.
• Set technical direction, decompose work, manage sprint execution, and own squad delivery.
• Design data models, medallion architectures, ingestion contracts, and reusable engineering patterns.
• Build and debug production pipelines using SQL, Python, and Spark.
• Partner with Engagement Leads and business stakeholders to translate business needs into data solutions.
• Establish standards for CI/CD, version control, testing, code review, documentation, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on data engineering experience, including experience leading or mentoring engineers.
• Strong recent proficiency in SQL, Python, and Spark.
• Experience with cloud data platforms on AWS, Azure, or GCP; Databricks experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience leading mixed teams of employees and contractors.
• Fluency with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, and DataOps.
• Clear communication skills for working with both business leaders and engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience with Databricks Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, medallion architecture, and Databricks Workflows.
• Experience with dbt or similar transformation frameworks.
• Knowledge of data lineage, access controls, metadata management, and data quality frameworks.
• Background in financial services, insurance, benefits, or consulting.
• Experience with unstructured data ingestion, LLM-based tooling, AI-assisted development, or analytics engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work combines remote flexibility with office collaboration and professional development.
• At least three days per week are expected in the local office or onsite with clients.
• Marsh promotes a diverse, inclusive, and flexible work environment.
• Office-based teams establish at least one weekly anchor day for in-person collaboration.