Target Range:
$125,000.00 /Yr. - $150,000.00 /Yr.Actual starting pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, experience, skills, specialty, and education.
Eligible for an Annual Discretionary Cash Bonus Target:Eligible for an Annual Discretionary Restricted Stock Units Bonus Target:These discretionary target bonuses may be awarded semi-annually based upon your achievement of performance goals and targets.
About This Job
Target Range:$125,000.00 /Yr. - $150,000.00 /Yr.
Actual starting pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, experience, skills, specialty, and education.
Eligible for an Annual Discretionary Cash Bonus Target: 10%
Eligible for an Annual Discretionary Restricted Stock Units Bonus Target: 10%
Axos Bank is seeking a hands-on VP, Data Engineering Technical Lead to help shape, modernize, and scale our enterprise data platform. This role is central to our mission of transforming legacy data systems into a modern, cloud-native Lakehouse environment that powers analytics, AI, and business intelligence across the organization. As a technical lead, you will design and deliver scalable data pipelines, define data design patterns, enforce engineering standards, and leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate modernization, improve productivity, and reduce technical debt. You will drive proofs of concept (POCs) and points of view (POVs) to evaluate emerging technologies and frameworks, ensuring that the platform remains innovative, cost-efficient, and future-ready.
Responsibilities
- Modernize legacy ETL pipelines: Lead the transformation of SSIS/SSRS workloads into modular, high-performance pipelines using Databricks, dbt, Fivetran, and Airflow.
- Architect reusable data design patterns: Define and implement standardized frameworks for ingestion, transformation, curation, and consumption layers across the Lakehouse.
- Develop and lead POCs/POVs: Experiment with new technologies (e.g., Delta Live Tables, Iceberg, streaming ingestion, AI-driven observability) to validate architecture choices and influence the enterprise roadmap.
- Leverage AI to accelerate engineering: Use AI-enabled tools like Databricks Assistant, Cursor AI, GitHub Copilot, and dbt Mesh AI tests for code generation, automated testing, documentation, and pipeline optimization.
- Apply ML for operational intelligence: Integrate predictive models to detect pipeline anomalies, data drift, and optimize compute and scheduling.
- Enforce engineering excellence: Drive CI/CD, version control, peer reviews, and observability practices across the data platform.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with data architects, platform engineers, analysts, and business product owners to translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Mentor data engineers: Provide technical guidance, foster continuous learning, and help the team adopt modern data engineering best practices.
- Optimize performance and cost: Continuously tune Spark workloads, storage tiers, and orchestration logic across Azure and GCP environments.
Requirements:
- Bachelors degree
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering or related technical fields, with at least 3+ years in a lead or senior role.
- Proven experience designing and implementing data design patterns (e.g., CDC, SCD, Medallion, Data Vault, streaming, and batch patterns).
- Deep expertise with Databricks, Apache Spark, dbt, Fivetran, Census, Airflow, and Kafka. Solid experience across Azure and/or GCP (e.g., Synapse, Data Factory, BigQuery, Pub/Sub).
- Hands-on experience modernizing legacy ETL (SSIS/SSRS) workloads into cloud-native pipelines.
- Demonstrated ability to build POCs and POVs that validate new tools, frameworks, or architectures.
- Working knowledge of AI-assisted engineering tools for development, observability, or optimization.
- Proficiency in SQL and one programming language (Python, Scala, or Java).
- Strong problem-solving, architectural thinking, and collaboration skills.
- Excellent communicator with the ability to translate technical topics to business stakeholders.
Axos Employee Benefits May Include:
Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
Paid Sick Leave, 3 weeks’ Vacation, and Holidays (about 11 a year)
HSA or FSA account and other voluntary benefits
401(k) Retirement Saving Plan with Employer Match Program and 529 Savings Plan
Employee Mortgage Loan Program and free access to an Axos Bank Account with Self-Directed Trading
About Axos
Born digital-first, Axos delivers financial tools and services that allow individuals, small businesses, and companies to access and manage their money how, when, and where they want. We’re a diverse team of dynamic, insightful, and independent innovators who are excited to provide technology-driven solutions that offer unbeatable value to our customers.
Axos Financial is our holding company and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "AX" (NYSE: AX).
Learn more about working at Axos
Pre-Employment Background Check and Drug Test:
All offers are contingent upon the candidate successfully passing a credit check, criminal background check, and pre-employment drug screening, which includes screening for marijuana. Axos Bank is a federally regulated banking institution. At the federal level, marijuana is an illegal schedule 1 drug; therefore, we will not employ any person who tests positive for marijuana, regardless of state legalization.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
Axos is an Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex (including pregnancy, breast feeding and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military and veteran status, marital status, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, physical disability, mental disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Job Functions and Work Environment:
While performing the duties of this position, the employee is required to sit for extended periods of time. Manual dexterity and coordination are required while operating standard office equipment such as computer keyboard and mouse, calculator, telephone, copiers, etc.
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.
E-Verify and Right to Work Notices
Axos participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States. The E-Verify program is an internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
IER Right to Work Poster (English/Spanish)
E-Verify Participation Poster (English/Spanish)
Skills Required
- Bachelors degree
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering or related technical fields, with at least 3+ years in a lead or senior role
- Proven experience designing and implementing data design patterns
- Deep expertise with Databricks, Apache Spark, dbt, Fivetran, Census, Airflow, and Kafka
- Solid experience across Azure and/or GCP
- Hands-on experience modernizing legacy ETL workloads into cloud-native pipelines
- Demonstrated ability to build POCs and POVs that validate new tools
- Working knowledge of AI-assisted engineering tools
- Proficiency in SQL and one programming language (Python, Scala, or Java)
- Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills
- Excellent communicator with the ability to translate technical topics to business stakeholders
Axos Bank Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Axos Bank and has not been reviewed or approved by Axos Bank.
-
Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, and vision with multiple plan choices, plus HSA/FSA options and an Employee Assistance Program. Employer HSA contributions and extras like pet insurance and onsite fitness centers at some locations expand the wellness offering.
-
Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes around 15 days of vacation for new hires, paid sick leave, and up to 11 company holidays annually. Availability of certain perks and holiday specifics can vary by location or subsidiary, but the baseline PTO/holiday combination is broadly competitive.
-
Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match is offered alongside additional financial programs like a 529 plan, employee mortgage loans, and banking/trading perks. Automatic enrollment and structured matching underscore tangible retirement support for longer‑tenured employees.
Axos Bank Insights
What We Do
Axos is a technology-driven financial services company providing a diverse and ever-growing range of innovative products and services for personal, business and institutional clients nationwide. Powered by exceptional team members, a clearly defined set of values and a culture that is both meritocratic and self-governing, we are transforming banking as we know it. Our mission is summed up in two words: Banking Evolved. Banking Evolved means providing products and services that are technologically superior to our competitors and that offer our customers an unbeatable value proposition. Banking Evolved means continuously innovating and excelling in the following areas: • The incubation, creation and deployment of new businesses and tools that best serve our customers; • The evolution, optimization, delivery, distribution and marketing of our products; • The harnessing of data and technology to manage our business most effectively and efficiently; and • The development and engagement of our team members. To be part of the Axos team is to live our values as your own, to work with a strong sense of individual purpose and to embody a commitment to the shared success of our business. As a meritocracy, we believe that success is earned. We reward individuals on the basis of their achievements. As a self-governing organization, we derive strength from the internal resourcefulness of each individual. We emphasize independence, goal-setting and personal accountability.
.jpeg)
