Data Engineer Lead ETL Developer - Assistant Vice President at Citi
New York, NY
$121,200–$181,800from the description
Aug 17, 2026
New York, NY
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role at Citigroup focuses on designing, building, and maintaining enterprise ETL pipelines using the Ab Initio platform in support of the Oracle Ledger program. The engineer will own data quality controls, metadata management, and data lineage across critical financial data assets, while translating business requirements into technical ETL specifications and SQL-based transformations. It suits an experienced data integration professional with deep Ab Initio expertise and a background in financial services data environments.
Senior level · 5+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 25 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 7–35
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $134,433 (middle half $95,331–$179,625). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 20, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is classified under Citi's 'Applications Development' job family but is primarily an ETL/data pipeline engineering position centered on Ab Initio — closer to data/pipeline architecture (15-1243) than general software development (15-1252). 15-1252 is listed as the runner-up given the breadth of development work described.
Ab Initio GDE, Co>Operating System, and EME are listed individually in the qualifications as mandatory — each is a distinct component of the Ab Initio suite and is captured separately.
Oracle and Teradata appear together as examples of relational database platforms in the requirements section; Oracle is named first and Teradata is captured as an alternative.
Experience with Oracle Financials or SAP is described as 'highly desirable' rather than required, so it is marked preferred.
The posting states 'Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience,' which means equivalent experience is accepted in lieu of a degree — degree requirement is therefore set to None.
The title 'Data Engineer ETL Developer' carries no explicit seniority level word, so advertised seniority is Unspecified; however, the 5+ years requirement, mandatory deep Ab Initio expertise, advisory/coaching responsibilities, and enterprise-scale scope support a Senior classification.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Ab Initio Co>Operating System.
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