Lead Data Platform Engineer
Citi · Tampa, FL
$113,840–$170,760from the description
Jun 30, 2026
Tampa, FL
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
Senior level · 6+ years · Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 6 people in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 3–9
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $136,221 (middle half $99,859–$174,035). 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 Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The role is titled 'Lead Data Platform Engineer' — 'Lead' here signals a senior technical leadership position rather than a formal Staff/Principal band; the 6–10 year experience range and scope (leading a team, owning a platform) align with Senior.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role centers on architecting and building data pipelines and NoSQL data stores (pointing to 15-1243 Database Architects), but the heavy Java application development and Kafka pipeline engineering also make 15-1252 Software Developers a credible fit.
Java, SQL, Kafka, MongoDB, and Couchbase are all listed under the 'Who You Are' requirements block with firm language ('extensive, daily, hands-on experience'), making them hard gates.
A Master's degree in a technical field is explicitly stated as preferred, not required; the hard minimum is a Bachelor's degree in a technical field.
The posting mentions mentoring mid-level developers and allocating work, but does not describe formal people-management duties (hiring, performance reviews, budget) — this is treated as a technical lead IC role, not a manager role (11-3021).
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