Head of Data Engineering

Lazard is one of the world’s preeminent financial advisory and asset management firms. Our people and culture make the difference. While global in presence and reach, ours is a close, collaborative community of just over 3,000 professionals. Lazard is a place of continuous knowledge sharing, skill development and relationship building, where professionals grow and succeed together. Our entrepreneurial culture, flat structure and embrace of individual differences, allow creative ideas, original concepts, and unique perspectives to drive our business forward — and for careers to take flight.

Lazard Asset Management (LAM) is seeking a Head of Data Engineering to lead the ground-up modernization of its data landscape. This is a rare build mandate: replace a fragmented legacy estate with a governed, cloud-native data service platform that turns data into a reusable, on-demand asset and accelerates the firm’s ability to adopt AI, empower self-service, and integrate new capabilities through a plug-and-play architecture. Working hand in hand with business and shared service teams and the central AI and Data team, you will define and deliver a new end-to-end data strategy, from business needs through to shared infrastructure.

You are a senior data platform leader from asset management or a comparable regulated financial institution who has modernized complex legacy environments without disrupting production. You pair the architectural vision to set direction with the hands-on depth…